Shawn Daly · Large Format Print Director · The Bernard Group
The deal may be announced at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, but The Bernard Group made the decision long before arriving at the show.
Morten B. Reitoft meets Shawn Daly from The Bernard Group in front of Agfa’s Jeti Tauro H3300 XUHS — and appropriately, the machine on the show floor is heading directly to The Bernard Group after the exhibition.
And it won’t be the only one.
The Bernard Group has extensive experience with Agfa’s Tauro platform and is now moving from its existing UHS technology into the new XUHS generation, with additional installations already planned.
The reason is straightforward: speed without sacrificing quality.
The Bernard Group produces point-of-purchase graphics and combines print with fixture manufacturing and assembly for major retail applications. In that environment, enormous production volumes and demanding deadlines make throughput critical, but color and quality cannot change simply because the press runs faster.
The new Tauro H3300 XUHS provides the company with significantly greater production capacity while maintaining the quality required by its customers. Just as importantly, The Bernard Group has worked closely with Agfa on color development, including configurations using light magenta to achieve the reproduction the company needs.
That collaboration is not new. The Bernard Group and Agfa have worked together on optimizing the Tauro platform around real production requirements rather than simply buying another machine.
For Shawn Daly, the new investment isn’t about experimenting with additional capacity. The work is already there.
The objective is to produce it faster.
Watch Morten B. Reitoft’s conversation with Shawn Daly from The Bernard Group 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.