Patty Taquard · Production Manager · Beaed LP
At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Morten B. Reitoft meets Patty Tacquard from Beaed at the Agfa booth to talk about a relationship that has developed through several generations of wide-format technology.
Beaed has been an Agfa customer for years, moving from earlier Anapurna and Titan platforms to several Jeti Tauro systems, including the H2500, H3300, and H3300 UHS.
For Patty, the attraction is straightforward: speed, quality, and the production capacity needed to compete for increasingly demanding work.
But the machines have also played a much larger role in the company’s development. Patty explains that without the Agfa equipment, Beaed would not have been able to win and support its largest customer — a relationship that has helped the business double in size over approximately five years.
That makes equipment investment considerably more than specifications.
Patty also speaks openly about an earlier investment that wasn’t the right fit. What mattered was how quickly Agfa responded, worked with Beaed, and helped move the company into the larger production platform it actually needed.
Today she describes that relationship as a partnership rather than a traditional supplier/customer relationship. Beaed provides feedback from production, while Agfa supports the company with technology, service, supplies, and the knowledge accumulated through years of working together.
For Patty, that relationship — combined with an owner willing to listen to what production needs — has made it possible to continue investing as the business grows.
Because sometimes the right press doesn’t simply add capacity.
It gives you the capacity to win entirely new business.
Watch Morten B. Reitoft’s conversation with Patty Tacquard from Beaed 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.