At FESPA Barcelona, Wayne from INKISH speaks with Christoph from Printess about how AI is beginning to transform personalized print products and web-to-print services. The conversation focuses on Printess’ new AI-driven photo book solution, where users simply upload a folder of holiday photos and artificial intelligence automatically selects, analyzes, and designs the photo book based on image quality, facial expressions, focus, and composition. Christoph explains how the solution is designed as an easy add-on service for PSPs and web-to-print providers, allowing them to offer photo books through their existing customer databases without necessarily producing the products themselves. The discussion also highlights how software companies face varying levels of visibility at exhibitions like FESPA, where hardware often dominates attention, even as software solutions remain crucial for automation, customer access, and expanding product portfolios.

Christoph Müller gives convincing examples in this walkthrough of why Müller Martini Connex is valuable software. Connex enables the user to have different numbers of pages in signatures to minimize blanks and waste. It also shifts the images so the paper is according to binding type—all in a super automated and convenient way—but check out here for yourself! And, you will also be able to use your printing equipment more efficiently!

The MPOWER platform enables customers to monitor their Müller Martini equipment, order manuals and spare parts, and get the latest information quickly. Christoph Müller explains how to use the platform - and it seems like a platform all customers would want to use - so if you are not on it - get on it :-)

Durst Group is a company with an amazing 80 years history. Though the company today produces amazing print-technology with inkjet printers for several applications, like ceramic, corrugated cardboard, textile, label, and more - the legacy is deep in the roots. Christoph Gamper several times in this Over the Skype session speaks over the values and the fact that being a privately owned company also in these coronavirus times is a huge advantage. Great session and we are sure you will like. As with all our 'Over the Skype' interviews, quality is limited to bandwidth, web-cams, and ability to literally LIVE mix the conversations. However, it works, and with Over the Skype, we will bring you more than 20 exciting people, and angles on the industry as it is right now. Enjoy!

Editor Morten B. Reitoft from INKISH speaks with Christoph Gamper from DURST at Expográfica in Guadalajara about DURST Mexico’s 20th anniversary and the company’s long relationship with the Latin American market. The conversation explores how DURST evolved from photography and ceramics into labels, packaging, and graphics, while reflecting on the strong growth potential in Mexico and Latin America. Christoph also shares his thoughts on local manufacturing, skilled labor, cultural understanding, and why long-term relationships and local leadership remain essential to DURST’s success in the region.

The second attendee at our NON-EVENT23 was CEO Christoph Gamper from DURST. Talking about beacons, motivations, and even a question of whether Christoph Gamper hates losing. Once again, a super nice fireplace chat with a fantastic backdrop.

Christoph Gamper’s enthusiasm for producing the DURST EXPO 2022 Label event is evident in this brief interview. He describes the joy of speaking face-to-face with customers, watching the DURST technical experts go over both machines and technology one-on-one. Christoph ponders the future of trade shows and a bit of his vision for the future of print.

At FESPA in Barcelona, Editor-in-Chief Morten Reitoft once again speaks with Christoph Gamper from Durst Group about Kyveris, one of the industry’s most ambitious visions for automation, intelligence, and the future of production. What started as an idea has now evolved into a working sandbox environment where the first concepts behind Kyveris are becoming real. But as Christoph Gamper explains, Kyveris is not “just a robot” connected to a machine. The robot is only one small part of a much larger vision built around industrial intelligence, connected workflows, physical AI, and systems that continuously learn from every print produced. The conversation explores how future production environments may optimize themselves through substrate behavior, ink interaction, motion control, and data-driven learning, all moving toward increasingly autonomous and eventually lights-out manufacturing. A fascinating teaser conversation ahead of more announcements expected at the upcoming Durst Technology Festival, where Durst plans to reveal even more about what Kyveris may become in the future.

Morten from Inkish interviews Christoph Gamper, CEO of Durst Group, at LabelExpo in Barcelona. Despite the extreme heat in Hall 3, Christoph shares that business at Durst is just as “hot,” with the company continuing to grow and now having over 4,200 systems installed worldwide, including more than 550 digital label systems, and 33 owned companies. He explains that a collective mindset within the company drives Durst’s success—while they don’t aim to be the biggest, they strive to be the best in technology. Everyone at Durst has bought into this goal, creating what he describes as a big, happy family pushing forward together. Christoph says he spends little time in his office and is often traveling to meet customers, attend trade shows, and visit markets like China and the United States, ensuring he stays close to the market and to customers’ needs. He sees his role as leading the innovation roadmap while also “sniffing the markets” to deeply understand customer pain points, with Durst’s mission being to remove those pains. He credits Durst’s success to its strong mid-management, close collaboration between teams, and a culture where leadership actively engages with both staff and customers. He also outlines Durst’s expansion beyond labels into other areas, especially packaging, including corrugated and folding carton, through Durst Group’s partnership with Koenig & Bauer under Koenig & Bauer Durst. In addition, Durst remains committed to large-format printing, ceramics, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and new ventures in software. Christoph highlights All4Labels as a customer and mentions being particularly proud of All4Site, a company he founded in New York, brought back to Europe, and which is now rapidly growing under Redstone Capital with major clients like Nike. He concludes that while not every segment develops at the same speed, Durst is growing strongly, expanding strategically, and maintaining its focus on innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction.

CONVERSATIONS is a popular format on INKISH.TV. This time we feature CEO & Co-Owner Christoph Gamper from DURST. The confidence DURST has is inspiring and with a clear objective of being number one or two in the segments they address is encouraging and an important statement to all stakeholders. Great conversations and I feel confident that we will have more stories from DURST in the future! Enjoy! LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophgamper/   ----- If you read Dutch - please also read the article from our friends at Printmedianieuws.

Clermont knows what he is talking about, and in this interview, we learn about the EU's Accessibility requirements, which will allow even blind people to produce, for example, photo books online. Christoph Clermont is not so nervous about this, as he believes that technical development will help people with disabilities even faster than the legislators can invent "new" legislation. We, of course, ALSO get a chance to talk about his fantastic project, Printess - which he describes as an online version of InDesign. It was great talking to him - enjoy!

Wayne Beckett talks to Christoph Clermont Co-Founder at Printess regarding their cloud based white label solution. Christoph also talks about their recent launch of Printess-Make the worlds first text-to-design editor.

Bromberger Packungen celebrates but doesn't celebrate its 120th anniversary because, as CEO Christof Bromberger says, the big celebration is 125 years in only five years. As the company name indicates, Bromberger Packungen produces packaging material. In this film, we speak to both Christof Bromberger and Arno Duerr from Weilburger Graphics about choosing and working with the right supplier of different consumables like varnishes, coatings, and even ink. Enjoy :-) Interview by James Quirk

Convertible Solutions manufactures paper that is so appealing that you simply must touch this. This is unfortunately not something we can offer yet, however, Print Sample TV host, Pat McGrew show you some really nice print samples in this episode. We like what we see. What do you think?

At Fujifilm's Open House in Hanover, Illinois, just outside Chicago, Morten B. Reitoft speaks with Christine Yardley from Toronto, Canada, about creativity, digital printing, embellishment, and why she believes print can still be considered an art form. Known for her passion for digital print, specialty colors, foils, varnishes, and embellishments, Christine shares how she combines technology and creativity to create print that captures attention and delivers value for customers. The conversation explores the role of design and prepress, the opportunities created by expanded color gamuts, and how Fujifilm's new Revoria PC2120 can help printers produce more vibrant and engaging applications. Morten and Christine also discuss toner versus inkjet, the importance of understanding customer needs, and how embellishment can help print service providers differentiate themselves in a competitive market. Drawing on examples from healthcare communications, proposal presentations, and highly customized marketing pieces, Christine explains why creativity remains one of the most powerful tools available to printers today. A lively conversation about print, creativity, technology, and the endless possibilities created when great ideas meet great production.

Visiting Jones Healthcare Group was a blast. Not only because of how they use their Koenig & Bauer presses, or the vast number of die-cutters, and folding/gluers from various vendors, but also because of visiting a company that has specialized in healthcare are set by very high requirements and safety point of view. Jones Healthcare is a global company with facilities in both the US and Europe. Besides the printing part, Jones Healthcare also develops packaging solutions for medicine, and if not enough, they also do the actual packaging of medicine. An amazing story about a family company that has a rather unique story, but watch and listen.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-grisolia-a86796123/

EWJ was one of the material suppliers and sponsor for the wrappers - here we talk to Sales Consultant Christian Wiklund from the company.

Streamlining print operations has been a core element of Keyline since it was introduced. Christian Weyer explains how the Keyline cloud-based solution helps shops to digitize and optimize for the explosion of small run jobs. There is AI in the story, but it’s not the headline.

Wayne Beckett talks with Christian Weyer Managing Director of Crispy Mountain about the key line MIS/ERP system. Christian has been on quite a journey over the last few years after their acquisition from HEIDELBERG. Christian talks about the the new Crispy Mountain and their vision for the future.

You’re doing it wrong! How we fail to tap into true potential of computers in businesses since 35 years. Link to presentation: https://grafkom.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/WS19/crispy+mountain_Christian_low.pdf

Conversations keep being one of our most popular formats on INKISH. In these interviews, you get to know the human behind the company - what drives them as individuals, values, and careers, and what we like about the format is that the relaxed atmosphere alone brings the message forward. In this Conversations, we talk to Christian Metz, the third Metz generation owner of the successful group of IST companies.

Christian Menegon, HP Indigo’s global business development manager who joined Indigo in 1995, has been at the forefront of digital technology’s evolution in the label industry for nearly three decades. He discusses HP Indigo’s new V12 and 200K presses.

Sometimes - or actually mostly - what you print and what you fold need to be 100% correct, and with Kaiser Vision on your folding line, you can verify and set actions accordingly. Here the CEO of Kaiser Vision explains how the camera inspection system works on a Horizon bucket folder, typically used for pharmaceutical inlays.