Charles Bourg · CEO · C.P. Bourg
At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Wayne Beckett finally catches up with Charles Bourg from C.P. Bourg — although finding him isn’t easy. C.P. Bourg technology is running not only on the company’s own booth, but alongside several of the industry’s leading digital print manufacturers.
And that is very much the point.
C.P. Bourg’s philosophy is to remain print-engine independent and give customers the flexibility to choose the printing technology that fits their business while connecting it to highly automated finishing.
Charles explains the company’s Dual Mode concept, where the same finishing line can operate directly inline with a digital press or independently using a sheet feeder. Customers can decide job by job whether inline or offline production makes the most sense — without investing in completely separate finishing systems.
Making that happen isn’t as simple as connecting two machines.
Inline finishing has to handle sheets arriving directly from the press, potentially with heat, curl and other characteristics that wouldn’t normally be present in an offline stack. For C.P. Bourg, developing reliable inline solutions therefore also improves the engineering and paper handling of its offline systems.
At PRINTING United, C.P. Bourg is demonstrating its technology together with partners including Canon and Xerox, while continuing to develop relationships with other press manufacturers. Charles describes the company almost as the “Switzerland” of finishing: C.P. Bourg doesn’t want to tell customers which printing technology to buy — it wants to provide the finishing platform behind whichever technology they choose.
Wayne and Charles also look at C.P. Bourg’s latest highly automated booklet-making technology. The system can move between very thin and significantly thicker booklets automatically, reducing operator intervention and making highly variable production increasingly practical.
That flexibility reflects where digital printing is heading.
Shorter runs, more job changes and increasing automation require finishing equipment that can adapt just as quickly as the press itself. Whether production is inline, offline or somewhere between the two, the objective remains the same: fewer touchpoints, reliable production and more finished work out of the factory.
Watch Wayne Beckett’s conversation with Charles Bourg from C.P. Bourg at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.
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Enrico Barboglio · Group CEO · Stratego Gr...
Italy has a long and important history in printing and converting technology, but technology alone isn't enough to build an international market. You also need connections. At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Pat McGrew meets longtime industry friend Enrico Barboglio at the Italian Trade Agency pavilion to talk about why Italian companies are exhibiting in the United States — and why an international trade show is about considerably more than selling machines. The Italian Trade Agency, together with the Italian printing and converting industry, has brought a group of companies to Las Vegas representing different parts of the production ecosystem. There are machinery manufacturers, software developers, color and process-control specialists, personalization technology and companies providing knowledge and communication to the graphic arts industry. It is only a small representation of the Italian printing industry. Many more Italian manufacturers are exhibiting elsewhere at PRINTING United through American subsidiaries, distributors and partners, illustrating just how significant Italian technology has become across printing, packaging, converting and finishing. For Enrico, however, the most important reason for being in Las Vegas can be summed up in one word: connection. Companies come to PRINTING United to meet customers and potential partners, of course, but they also come to learn. They meet other manufacturers, discover technologies, understand how markets are developing and create relationships that can ultimately lead to entirely new business opportunities. And those relationships work in both directions. Italian companies can introduce American printers and converters to technologies they may not already know, while conversations with the North American market provide Italian manufacturers with new ideas, requirements and perspectives to bring home. PRINTING United is therefore one stop on a much longer international journey. That journey leads toward Print4All in Milan in 2027. Print4All was created to bring together technologies and applications from across printing and converting rather than treating individual print segments as isolated industries. Commercial printing, digital, offset, flexo, gravure, converting, packaging, finishing and increasingly software and automation are all becoming part of a much more connected production ecosystem. That thinking is now being developed further through closer cooperation between ACIMGA and ARGI and the creation of the Printing & Converting Technology Alliance. The objective is to represent technology across the complete printing and converting value chain and create a stronger platform for manufacturers, suppliers, printers, converters, brands and international markets to meet. And perhaps that reflects the industry itself. A printing company rarely buys technology in isolation anymore. Presses need software. Software needs data. Printing requires finishing. Packaging requires converting. Automation requires communication between systems. And increasingly, the companies building those technologies need each other just as much as their customers need them. The machinery may be what visitors initially come to see. But relationships are what ultimately move an industry forward. Watch Pat McGrew's conversation with Enrico Barboglio at the Italian Trade Agency pavilion at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas — and hear why international connections are such an important part of the future of Italian printing and converting technology.