Max Allen · Dealer Manager & Director of Wide Format & Labels · Graphic Whizard
At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Pat McGrew meets Max Allen from Graphic Whizard — a company with such a broad finishing portfolio that describing it in an elevator pitch is almost impossible.
From slitting, cutting and creasing to laminating, perfect binding, booklet making, digital die cutting and wide-format routing, Graphic Whizard focuses on what happens after the print leaves the press. And with around 65 machines across the complete portfolio, there is usually something relevant for almost every digital or wide-format printer.
But the conversation isn’t really about having more machines.
It’s about reducing touchpoints, lowering labor requirements and finding ways to automate finishing that may still be highly manual today.
Max explains that customers typically come to Graphic Whizard from two directions. Some are replacing existing equipment and looking for more automation, while others are trying to expand their businesses into applications they don’t currently offer — perhaps adding perfect binding, embellishment, wide-format cutting or a small digital finishing department.
And increasingly, those traditional boundaries are disappearing.
Wide-format companies are adding digital cut-sheet capabilities, while commercial printers are moving into signage, rigid materials and other wide-format applications. Graphic Whizard therefore sees significant crossover between its different product ranges, with some equipment capable of supporting applications on both sides.
Workflow also plays an important role. Graphic Whizard integrates with specialist software partners for applications such as imposition, barcode-driven production and registration, rather than attempting to build every piece of the workflow itself.
For Max, the objective is straightforward: understand what the customer is trying to produce and then find the simplest way to automate it.
Less handling. Less setup. More applications. And more finished products out the door.
Watch Pat McGrew’s conversation with Max Allen from Graphic Whizard 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.