Colin Sinclair McDermott · Captain · The Online Print Coach
As PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas approaches its final hours, Wayne Beckett catches up with Colin Sinclair McDermott — The Online Print Coach and captain of this year’s PRINTING United All Stars.
The All Stars program brings together familiar faces from across the industry to help promote the show, share experiences and connect exhibitors and visitors. Colin says this year’s team included returning members as well as several new “rookies” — although most are already very well known throughout print.
But Colin is wearing another important hat in Las Vegas.
PRINTING United 2026 has also been the North American launchpad for Print Mastermind, Colin’s peer-to-peer learning community for print business owners and leaders. Across eight round-table sessions in the Spill the Ink District, attendees have been discussing subjects including business growth, sales, marketing, systems, leadership and personal development. (printing-connect.online)
The concept is deliberately different from a traditional seminar.
There are no long presentations and no sales pitches. Instead, printers sit around the table, share the challenges they are facing and learn from the experiences of others who may already have solved similar problems.
For Colin, that community is increasingly becoming international. His work as The Online Print Coach has taken him to events around the world, and Print Mastermind is designed to continue those conversations between exhibitions through online learning, coaching and peer support. (theonlineprintcoach.com)
And Las Vegas isn’t the end of the journey.
Next stop is The Print Show in Birmingham, where Print Mastermind Live will continue with multiple sessions throughout the event. (theprintshow.co.uk)
Watch Wayne Beckett’s conversation with Colin Sinclair McDermott at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.
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Doug Richards · Product Partner Line Manager...
A surprising amount of print production still starts with an email. At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Pat McGrew meets Doug Richards from Fiery to see how Fiery Scribe can remove much of the manual work normally involved in turning those emails into production-ready jobs. The traditional process is familiar. An operator opens the email, reads the customer instructions, downloads the attached PDF, imports it into the Fiery, interprets the specifications, sets copies, media, color, imposition and finishing — and only then can the job move toward production. Fiery Scribe uses AI to shorten that process dramatically. A customer can simply send an email describing what they want — perhaps 25 black-and-white booklets — and attach the PDF. Scribe interprets the request, applies the relevant job properties and sends the file directly into Fiery Command WorkStation, ready for the operator to review. The human is still in control. If information is missing or something needs clarification, the operator can see both the original request and the settings Scribe has applied, make adjustments and communicate back with the customer. For busy print environments where dozens of jobs arrive through email every day, removing repetitive job-entry clicks can create a significant productivity gain. Doug describes one early user returning to an inbox containing 40 untouched job requests and using Scribe to quickly move those emails into the Fiery workflow instead of manually recreating each job. Fiery Scribe supports selected FS500 Pro/FS500 servers and later and is available as a licensed application within Command WorkStation. Email in. Job ticket created. Operator checks it. Print. Watch Pat McGrew's conversation with Doug Richards from Fiery at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.