Dan Deveau · Owner · CAMAD
At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Morten B. Reitoft catches up with longtime INKISH friend Dan Deveau, Owner of Cameron Advertising — CAMAD — in Toronto.
CAMAD has been a family-owned company for more than six decades, and investment in new technology has always been part of its DNA. Its relationship with Agfa goes back many years, with CAMAD frequently among the first companies in North America to adopt new generations of Agfa wide-format technology.
Last year, that continued when CAMAD became the first North American customer for the new Agfa Onset Panthera FB3216.
Now the machine is installed, producing every day, and Dan can finally compare the investment calculations with production reality.
The result?
Around two-and-a-half times the productivity of the technology it replaces.
For CAMAD, that additional capacity isn’t simply about producing existing work faster. It creates an opportunity to remove older equipment, free valuable production space and prepare the business for further growth — potentially including another Panthera.
Dan is equally open about the fact that every new installation brings a learning curve. Even when the production numbers are there, CAMAD continues working closely with Agfa to optimize the machine and identify where additional improvements can be made.
And that relationship is an important part of the story.
Dan doesn’t see Agfa simply as a company that sells a press and disappears after installation. Service, technical support, continued development and the willingness to listen to customer feedback have been fundamental to a partnership that has developed over many years.
For CAMAD, more capacity also means another challenge: sales now has to fill it.
In the highly competitive Greater Toronto Area, Dan sees opportunities as the market continues to consolidate. Having significantly more production capacity means CAMAD can say yes to more of the work coming its way.
And as an old salesperson, Dan doesn’t particularly like saying no.
Watch Morten B. Reitoft’s conversation with Dan Deveau from Cameron Advertising at the Agfa booth at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.
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Gregor Kohle · Head of Sales & Marketing · ...
At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Wayne Beckett meets Gregor Kohle from Imaging Solutions AG — a Swiss company bringing its background in highly automated photo production increasingly into the wider graphic arts industry. And the machine attracting attention at the booth is the multiCut Sheet. Originally developed from Imaging Solutions' experience with roll-based cutting and sorting, the sheet-fed version was created because customers wanted the same level of automation for digitally printed sheets. The concept is particularly interesting for mixed-format production. Different image sizes can be imposed on the same sheet, identified through barcode information, cut automatically and then sorted while keeping individual orders together. For applications such as school photography, photo products and highly variable short-run work, that can remove a significant amount of manual cutting and sorting. The system handles sheet sizes from SRA3 through B2+ and can process up to 10,000 images per hour depending on format and imposition. An optional pallet feeder is also being developed for higher-volume continuous production. But Imaging Solutions is about considerably more than cutting. The company's roots are in photographic production, including silver-halide processing, before expanding into automated LayFlat book production, cutting and sorting, canvas stretching and other finishing technologies. Today, those same automation principles are increasingly relevant to commercial printers looking for efficient short-run and print-on-demand production. And there is a nice twist to the PRINTING United story: the multiCut Sheet on display has already been sold — to a customer in Japan. Swiss engineering, sold in Las Vegas, heading to Japan. Watch Wayne Beckett's conversation with Gregor Kohle from Imaging Solutions AG at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.