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In this film, Michael Tuchscher from Beltz Grafische Betriebe explains what considerations and why they ended up investing in a Hunkeler and HP-T-series solution. With the Hunkeler investment, Beltz can produce book blocks that can be handled in the company's binding department, and, well - judge for yourself - but it looks pretty cool! This film was made for our Learn With Us Inkjet series and is recorded remotely.

David Walden is the Plant Manager for PrimeSourceOPC out of North Carolina and, of course, influences the decision process when investing in new equipment. At the BOBST Open House event, he explains some of the KPIs when choosing equipment. But listen to what he says, and learn :-)

If you are not already following Gee Ranasinha and learning from his almost daily posts on LinkedIn, you should. With great insight into the human mind's understanding of what works and what doesn't work, he shares his views on topics we should all learn from. The altruistic approach to content, why clicks and likes is a highly overrated matrix, how the various SoMe platforms do everything they can to keep content and users on their platforms, etc. When we asked Gee for an interview, it was like coming home. We share many ideas, and in this format, you will be exposed to many things you should consider in your business - HIGHLY recommended!

We get better acquainted with some of their offerings and ask about their economic outlook for the coming years. Interesting points of view to hear from an important player in this segment. Do check it out. LinkedIn Profile:

At the OPS, we got the chance to catch up with Beatrice Klose, the Secretary General of Intergraf. We spoke about how OPS is defining the future of print and how it has become a place for inspiration. We also talk about navigating the litigation of the EU and how it influences the printing industry.

Beatrice Klose is the Secretary-General for INTERGRAF based in Brussels, Belgium. Intergraf organises 20 European Print Federations and do an extremely important job concerning both servicing the local federations, but maybe even more important representing the printing industry concerning legislation suggested by the European Commission. In this 'Over the Skype' session, Beatrice Klose explains the work of Intergraf, which we find is way undervalued - so please enjoy and share. 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!

The MarketDirect Storefront (MDSF) is described by channel sales manager Joe Fedor. Boasting a flexible UX and simple integration with any of the eProductivity workflow and management solutions, MDSF is scalable e-commerce for small to medium size print service providers as well as enterprise web-to-print customer integration. It is also API enabled for integration with third party MIS systems.

At Labelexpo Americas 2024, ETI Converting Equipment partnered with Martin Automatic, Lemu Group, and Lundberg Tech to demonstrate a highly automated and efficient printing and converting line that includes technologies from all four companies. Baudry Bayzelon discusses the company's involvement in the project and the increasing interest from the market in linerless labeling.

It's always nice to meet specialists, and Bastian Pinsenschaum is definitely one of them. In this interview from Weilburger's booth at Drupa 2024, we discuss water barrier coatings and give examples of real-life applications!

Wayne talks to Bastiaan about the need for automation in the graphic arts industry and how KV Techniek is producing robots and fully automating production.

Bartosz Mierzwiak likes being innovative and explains to editor Morten B. Reitoft how he believes that if you don't innovate, you can't survive. In the interview, Bartosz Mierzwiak also talks about digitalization, how the company was started by his father in a garage, and the relation with BHS. Nice story!

Just a few days before drupa, Barbara McManus from HP was thrown into a new position within HP. She fortunately, as she says, knew the organization as she has been heading the R&D in PageWide for years - and maybe you remember, but the PageWide T2200 was actually McManus's baby. More 'babies' are on their way, for example, the T4250 and the 500 - and we get to talk about that in this interview - enjoy!

Mark Subers is the President of PRINTING United Expo. In just a few weeks (October 19th-21st, 2022), PRINTING United Expo takes place in Las Vegas. After two years of COVID and cancellations, editor Morten B. Reitoft talked with Subers about what to expect in the 2022 edition. Subers explain the many changes, like more equipment on the floor, fewer but better educational sessions, and integrated activities in various pavilions. The new PUX platform enables other organizations to organize user events days before PRINTING United, hopefully leading to more people staying for the expo. The exhibition floor has grown, and Subers is optimistic about the number of attendees, which most likely will exceed the 30,000 attendees from the 2019 edition in Dallas. His expectations are based on a much higher sale of hotel rooms here two weeks before the event. INKISH will cover PRINTING United intensively, so be prepared for our daily coverage.

Amazing to see the print samples from Kodak. In this Print Sample TV episode, your host Pat McGrew shows print samples printed on various substrates, even plastic materials. Kodak offers both print heads to be installed in a hybrid setup with offset and presses to deliver stunning results. In this Print Sample TV episode, you will see it all.

Mexico is becoming an increasingly important market for the printing industry, and at the HEIDELBERG SHIFT event, we caught up with a colleague from HEIDELBERG Mexico to discuss how quickly the market is changing. One of the key priorities in Mexico today is performance improvement. New presses and new software bring significantly more intelligence, automation, and production capabilities than equipment from twenty years ago, but the real value only appears when customers actually use those possibilities. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, Intellistart, and autonomous production features can help improve productivity and return on investment — but only if printing companies are prepared to change the way they work. That transformation is particularly interesting in Mexico because the market is highly diverse. Some printing companies already operate at a technological and organizational level comparable with leading companies in Europe and the US, while others are still working in a much more traditional way. The challenge for HEIDELBERG is therefore not only to sell technology, but also to help customers move from what might traditionally have been seen as graphic arts production toward a more industrial and technology-driven approach. We also talk about Mexico’s relationship with the US and the broader global market. While domestic opportunities are growing, Mexican printers are increasingly producing for international customers and therefore need to compete at the same quality, productivity, and technology level as companies elsewhere in the world. That is also one of the reasons for traveling all the way from Mexico to SHIFT in Heidelberg. The objective is to learn how technology, automation, AI, and new production concepts are being used in Europe, and then bring that knowledge back to Mexican customers who are increasingly interested in the same developments. Mexico may once have been viewed by some European suppliers primarily as a market for used equipment, but that picture is changing quickly. More companies are investing in new technology — and the ambition is clearly to compete on the same level as the rest of the world.

At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Wayne Beckett catches up with our good friends from XMPie to talk about personalization, automation — and why the two increasingly have to work together. XMPie has long been known for variable data and personalized communication, but personalization today extends far beyond changing a name or an image on a printed piece. If you already have customer data, XMPie can use it to create personalized direct mail, email and multi-channel campaigns where different touchpoints work together. But the journey can also start without knowing the recipient at all. A QR code on packaging, a poster or another printed product can become the starting point for a digital interaction. The recipient identifies themselves, enters a journey and can subsequently receive personalized print, digital communication — or even AI-generated content and personalized video. At PRINTING United, XMPie is demonstrating that philosophy across several partnerships on the show floor, working with companies including Xerox, Canon, Enfocus and Duplo. One of the most interesting examples combines XMPie, Enfocus and Canon in a completely automated workflow where a user uploads information and an image, AI helps create personalized content, and the workflow ultimately produces customized printed products without manual production intervention. And this is where automation becomes essential. Personalization can create enormous value, but it also creates complexity. Producing hundreds or thousands of individually different jobs cannot depend on people manually moving files between systems. Web-to-print, personalization, prepress, production and finishing increasingly need to communicate automatically. For XMPie, partnerships are therefore becoming just as important as the personalization technology itself. Connecting with workflow platforms such as Enfocus Switch allows printers to integrate XMPie into the production environments they already have rather than creating another isolated system. Wayne also asks whether PSPs fully understand what is now possible. Most understand that automation is essential for profitability and that personalization at scale requires it. But the opportunity becomes considerably bigger when print providers start combining physical and digital touchpoints rather than treating direct mail, email, web and video as separate channels. And perhaps that is also one of the ways print can become more interesting to a new generation. Data, AI, automation, creative applications — and print as part of a much broader communication experience. Watch Wayne Beckett's conversation with XMPie at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.

Quality and consistency are two key issues in any print application. With Axode's high-speed camera and registration, systems quality is assured. Axode delivers solutions for various kind of print equipment. Meet them at www.argosinspirationdays.com

Can paper really influence productivity on your inkjet device? Well, according to Axel J Mangelsdorf from Crown Van Gelder, paper has a large impact on productivity AND quality. The uncoated paper from Crown Van Gelder has such a smooth surface that it almost feels like a coated paper, enabling higher print quality, but the paper is also engineered for speed. So listen to Axel J Mangelsdorf and get the latest update on new GSMs developed and how Crown Van Gelder is good for your inkjet press!

If you think your Sustainability journey starts with CO2, you are wrong. Sustainability is more complex, and we have decided to start a series of interviews with various stakeholders to understand the paper, the inks, the energy, the printing, the de-inking, the CO2 emissions during the production of print, as well as the equipment - Please welcome our first guest, Axel Fischer from Ingede - talking about what is de-inking and what is the actual process. Enjoy!

Grakom indbyder i samarbejde med Medit Consult til årets tekniske konference med oplæg fra en række danske og internationale fagspecialister. De senere år har vi været vidne til banebrydende forretningskoncepter, der grundlæggende tilbyder grafiske produkter, men som har vendt op og ned på den grafiske branche. De mest banebrydende grafiske forretningskoncepter baserer sig på et gennemautomatiseret workflow. Den grafiske branche har være udsat for disruption længe før, det ord blev daglig tale. Intet af det var imidlertid blevet realiseret, hvis ikke en lang række processer var blevet automatiseret. På konferencens indlæg belyses det forretningsmæssige potentiale af professionelle forretningsudviklere, krydret med cases fra virksomheder der har gjort det i praksis. Sideløbende ser konferencen indad i den grafiske virksomhed og sætter klassiske optimeringsgevinster som effektivisering, fejlminimering og kvalitetssikring i nyt lys. INKISH er mediapartner og vil dække konferencen. Læs mere og tilmeld dig på: http://grakom.dk/auto

Intermountain Health isn't a printing company. It's an integrated healthcare network operating across Montana, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada — but within the organization sits a highly sophisticated print operation that produces everything from patient education materials to insurance, transactional, and member communications. With a team of just 17 caregivers, the operation combines high-volume inkjet, toner production, nearline finishing, redundancy, and increasingly automated workflows. But technology isn't the starting point. The team first asks what the organization needs, what should be produced internally, and only then decides which technology is the right tool for the job. And the economics are different. As an internal cost center, the objective isn't to maximize profit but to deliver the right quality, capacity, turnaround time, and cost while supporting an organization whose primary mission is treating patients. Investments are therefore measured by return, utilization, reliability, and the value they create for the wider healthcare system. After previously experiencing turnaround times of three to four weeks, investments in people, processes, inkjet, Tecnau finishing, and additional capacity have helped Intermountain Health bring production consistently down to just two to three days. In this INKISH film, we discuss automation, redundancy, equipment decisions, the importance of experienced operators, and why, even with increasingly advanced technology, the people running the equipment remain absolutely essential. And perhaps even more interestingly, Intermountain Health is now considering how its print infrastructure could potentially support other nonprofits and healthcare organizations — extending the value of its operation beyond its own network.

It has been a busy year for Canadian Ultimate TechnoGraphics. New major upgrades to its Impostrip software, an entirely new nesting engine, new partner announcements, and Scalable software technology - as you can understand, good reason to talk to Raymond Duval. We will also meet Ray and his colleagues at PRINTING United to dig more into details, but this is, as always, great talking to him. Enjoy!

At Cardbox Packaging, automation begins before the first sheet reaches the press. A fully automated board-handling system supplies two Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 presses—a six-color and a seven-color configuration capable of running both conventional and UV inks. From printing, the sheets move into an extensive die-cutting department equipped with three MK Masterwork Mastermatrix machines. A new MK Masterwork Duopress adds hot foiling, die-cutting, and blanking in a single production process, significantly expanding the products and decorative effects Cardbox can offer its customers. The company has developed considerably since its early expansion from the main plant in Wolfsberg in 2011 and 2012. Business with key customers in the Czech Republic and the United States created new opportunities, while the acquisition of a facility in Pinkafeld, close to Vienna, strengthened Cardbox Packaging’s capabilities in glued packaging. Today, the group focuses on three strategic segments: sleeves, glued packaging solutions, and sustainable food-packaging products—particularly paper cups and lids. Food packaging has always been central to the Cardbox business, but sustainable cup-and-lid solutions could become one of its most important growth areas in the coming years. The market, however, has become increasingly challenging. Overcapacity, pricing pressure, changing supply conditions, and strong competitors from Eastern Europe are making life more difficult for small and medium-sized packaging companies operating in Western Europe. Survival and growth therefore require more than additional capacity. Companies must identify niches, develop specialized solutions, improve efficiency, and offer services that create genuine value for their customers. Innovation at Cardbox Packaging is not limited to major technological breakthroughs. It is an everyday process involving product development, small operational improvements, new services, and continuous experimentation with the possibilities offered by new equipment. The latest investments give Cardbox additional capacity and operational stability, but they also create opportunities the company is still exploring. Employees are training, testing, and learning how the new technology can answer changing customer requirements—often without customers being willing to pay more for the additional complexity. Automation and artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role. Printed sheets are already being compared automatically with digital reference files, while digitalization is expanding into job preparation, estimating, analytics, and production control. For Cardbox Packaging, however, successful investment is not only about technology. It is also about partnership. New equipment inevitably creates new challenges, and packaging producers need suppliers that will continue working with them long after the installation is complete. The relationship between Cardbox Packaging, Heidelberg, and MK Masterwork is built on years of cooperation, shared experience, and trust between the people involved. Cardbox Packaging describes its central value as customer dedication: understanding what customers need and delivering products, services, and solutions that help make their businesses profitable. Efficiency, digitalisation, sustainability, and artificial intelligence are important parts of the company’s future—but so are its employees. Through its “We Care for You” philosophy, Cardbox focuses on training, development, working conditions, and giving employees and their families confidence in the future. The ambition is clear. By 2030, Cardbox Packaging aims to reach €100 million in revenue while maintaining sustainable profitability. Further acquisitions are already being considered, and additional investment is planned at the company’s US operation. Watch the film and visit Cardbox Packaging to see how technology, partnerships, sustainability, and people are being combined to prepare the company for its next stage of growth.

Ultimate Tech has been known for years for imposition and finishing automation in commercial print. But over the past four years, the company has been developing increasingly sophisticated solutions specifically for labels and packaging. At Labelexpo Americas in Chicago, Pat McGrew meets with Julie Watson from Ultimate Tech to discuss what that means in practice. For Ultimate Tech, automation means exactly that: removing manual work. The software can dynamically group jobs, batch production, create impositions on the fly, optimize complete print rolls, handle true-shape nesting, and generate the information required for cutting, embellishment, and finishing. The objective is to minimize waste, optimize substrate usage, and make better use of production capacity — without requiring operators to manually build layouts in applications such as InDesign. And the approach isn't limited to large companies. Ultimate Tech's modular platform can support smaller converters with automation straight out of the box, while larger organizations can connect the same technology with MIS, web-to-print, and other systems across a broader production ecosystem. AI naturally enters the conversation as well. Julie makes an important distinction between LLM-based AI and the precision required in print production. Imposition, nesting, and production calculations have to be repeatable and exact. But AI agents can sit upstream, analyze information, make decisions, and send structured instructions into a production workflow where Ultimate Tech then delivers the precise output required. The company already uses different forms of rules-based intelligence for applications including ganging, nesting, and automatically selecting appropriate impositions. For label and packaging companies struggling with missed deadlines, underutilized equipment, or too much manual intervention, Julie sees workflow automation as much more than software. It is a strategy. And increasingly, choosing a workflow platform also means considering where that technology is going next. Ultimate Tech continues investing in an architecture designed to connect with future automation, AI, and increasingly autonomous production environments. In this INKISH film, Pat McGrew talks with Julie Watson about label and packaging automation, imposition, nesting, AI, connected workflows, scalability, and why the future of production isn't simply about automating individual tasks. It's about removing the manual work between them.