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Is the problem the ink? The lamp? The reflector? The press speed? For printers using UV curing, finding the answer can sometimes involve more guesswork than anyone would like. At Loupe Americas in Chicago, Wayne Beckett meets Amir Dekel from GEW to talk about DoseGuard — technology designed to put measurable data behind UV performance. The concept is straightforward. A UV or LED cassette can be tested and, within seconds, DoseGuard can show whether it is producing the output it should. Instead of replacing components simply because they have reached a predetermined number of operating hours, printers can make maintenance decisions based on actual performance. That can have a direct impact on cost. A lamp scheduled for replacement after 1,000 hours may still have useful life remaining. Reflectors that appear worn may still be performing correctly. Equally, a component that looks fine may already be reducing curing performance. DoseGuard provides the data needed to know the difference. GEW says the system can identify UV lamp ageing and the effect of reflector and quartz-window condition, helping printers reduce rejects and make better maintenance decisions. And the conversation naturally moves toward LED. LED UV offers significant advantages in areas including energy consumption, component life, and maintenance, but Amir believes one of the biggest barriers to faster adoption isn't necessarily technical. It's familiarity. Printers have often worked with conventional UV for decades, and changing something that has reliably produced work for years can be as much an emotional decision as a technical one. But that transition is happening. According to Amir, GEW is now producing more LED cassettes than conventional ones, suggesting that the balance is steadily moving toward LED as more printers experience the technology firsthand. In this INKISH film, Wayne talks with Amir Dekel about DoseGuard, UV measurement, consumable life, maintenance, LED adoption, and why measurable curing data can remove one more uncertainty from the production process. Because sometimes the most valuable answer isn't that something needs replacing. It's knowing that it doesn't.

Dreyer Kliché produces hot stamping tools for the printing industry (hint for fine packaging, books, paper bags, wine labels, etc.). Being recognized as one of the world's best tool-maker, of course, makes us particularly interested in talking to the CEO Conni Dreyer when we met her at Scanpack in Gothenburg. With a theme build around Hans Christian Andersen's Tinder-Box fairytale, the stage is set and by showcasing the fantastic result of fantastic tools customers are invited to see for themselves what's possible. Quite amazing. Take a look at the interview and if you are interested, we have also made some films that showcase the process from idea to final​ result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx24s37F9ZM

If you have followed INKISH during Drupa, you know we have reported quite a lot from Fujifilm. The company excels in several product categories, and in this interview with Takefumi Horiguchi, we dig into the understanding of Fujifilm's workflow/software portfolio. Fujifilm is as ambitious in software as with every other segment it operates in, so keep an eye on its software portfolio. Also, off-camera has exciting things in development!  

Screen Europe is, by many, a valued OEM for inkjet printers within both Commercial Print and Labels. At The Horizon Finishing First event, we talked to Marketing Director Taishi Motoshige, Screen Europe. A very nice guy, but also with a clear vision of becoming the number one in selling inkjet presses. According to Motoshige, Screen's legacy is a great asset when developing solutions for the company's customers. But listen and enjoy yourself!

Belgium based Symeta is frequently featured on Print Sample TV, and in this episode, Pat McGrew shows examples of their great innovation. Personalized table cloth - or even more exciting, what about personalized kids summer camp magazines or Symeta's personalized newspaper. Limitless opportunities, but always driven by your organization. Find inspiration on Print Sample TV, but develop original content that will drive your sales! Watch it now!

Three years ago, my now husband and I, we traveled the West Coast of America. Driving with our tiny trailer behind a Honda. We slept in Pismo Beach on a Wal-Mart parking lot. And next morning an old veteran. He came by and he was like: It is so cool what you're doing. And I want to support you. Take these 40 bucks and he was like: have a nice lunch. That is one print that stays with us for forever. I got so interested in the printing industry, not only because of you. I worked for Gelato. It is so interesting to listen to all those people all the time. I is inspiring. It doesn't feel like work. That is from a trade show I went to last February in Nürnberg. And that was like the beginnings of the Corona pandemic. For Gelato - I was planning those trade shows. And also going there as a sales person. And I went there and it was just so sad. People really miss that togetherness. Coming to those trade shows...it's like meeting your family members. I really like the trade shows online also. Focused on what you actually want to get achieved. And I think you can plan better ahead who you want to meet. I'm also selling wall clocks. Like designer wall clocks. That was very, very hard during Corona. Since all the businesses were closed. I was desperately trying to look for ways to reach people. And I wrote a nice postcard. And I got good feedback for that. I wanted to show with that picture that print really helped me in other jobs also. I feel more connected when I actually have something in my hand. Rather than only looking at it. I sent that one to show that print is also becoming a primary thing in my personal life. My husband was stuck in Germany. Because his American was not able to work, couldn't show our daughter to his family for a year. So he started an illustration course and actually that is the first print that he sold. So I'm very proud of that. And I just wanted to share that.

SwissQprint France has a superb stand which attracts a lot of attention. They have teamed up with a street art artist to highlight the strong proposition and the quality they can produce. Alain Grenier, their France sales manager, tells us more. —- SwissQprint France dispose d'un superbe stand qui attire beaucoup d'attention. Ils se sont associés à un artiste de street art pour mettre en avant la proposition forte et la qualité qu'ils peuvent produire. Alain Grenier, leur responsable commercial France, nous en dit plus.

Sven Binder was featured in a film INKISH did from the Germany photobook/greeting card printer Send Moments. See the link below. Binder is hooked on data-driven productions and advocates using XML data rather than the workarounds like JDF. With structured data, you have all the needed data to produce automated, and with books of one and touch-free production in both print and binding, it's necessary. Interesting conversations! Sven Binder recently stopped working with Send Moments, so we took the liberty to 'title' him "Digital Nomad." https://inkish.tv/inkish-video/sendmoments/

Every day at 13:00, the Horizon Finishing First event hosts a panel debate, and our editor, Morten B. Reitoft, has been asked to host and moderate these sessions. The first was planned to be with a person that had to cancel shortly before the event. Fortunately, Sven Binder was on site and accepted the invitation to step in at the very last minute.

IGAS is the largest print exhibition in Japan, and Horizon, the largest exhibitor, demonstrates 21 end-to-end solutions. In this presentation, Keisuke Nakai talks about a solution that consists of a feeder, a rotary die-cutter, a spot gluer (addition), and a pocket folder - and voila, a document pocket solution is now available - and of course, still with the flexibility of using the solution for more applications. Great technology view, and with this option, customers can demand more sustainable solutions for document folders rather than using PVC or plastic.

Lemorau, a family-owned company, develops and manufactures finishing equipment for the worldwide label industry. Jacques Michiels got the opportunity to talk to Susanna Teixera and learn more about their heritage and how they came to grow and now are exporting to 77 countries across the 5 continents. A lively encounter with an enthusiastic player in the label converting manufacturing space.

Susan spoke to us about her journey at Dumont, from sales to running the shop, and then to buying it out, and now expanding their capabilities as the President. Along the way, she added print and mail solutions and a digital kit to broaden their range.

Everybody talks about workflow automation, but what does it actually mean inside a real printing company where offset, digital, web-to-print, MIS, proofing, and production all have to work together? At PRINTING United in Las Vegas, Pat McGrew meets Susan Moore, President and Owner of Dumont Printing, for a conversation about a transformation underway that her company. Dumont has been an Apogee and ePS Pace user for years, and on the offset side, the integration is already working extremely well. Customer service can receive a file, preflight it, create the proof, and move the job through Apogee and on toward plate production using JDF/JMF connectivity. But digital changes the equation. Dumont operates multiple digital workflows and customer storefronts, and Susan explains that connecting everything from Pace through Apogee to the various digital production environments and Fiery front ends has proven considerably more challenging. The objective, however, is very clear: when a customer submits a file, Dumont wants to create an almost immediate proof and then move as much of that job through production as possible with little or no human intervention. And Susan makes an important point about the economics of automation. The large offset jobs may have more value, but it is often the $150 or $200 digital job that absolutely cannot afford multiple people touching it. As turnaround expectations continue to shrink, removing unnecessary manual steps becomes essential to maintaining profitability. Following the conversation with Susan, Pat speaks with James Struble from ECO3 about how the company is working with Dumont to close those workflow gaps. The process starts before prepress. Customer service can compare incoming files against the estimate and identify fundamental production information such as page count, finished size, bleed and special colors before the job reaches production. Once the information and file are connected to the Pace job, they can be transferred into Apogee, where the job can be imposed and prepared for web-based proofing dramatically faster than through a conventional manual workflow. But automation isn't only about producing more with fewer people. James makes another interesting observation: better workflow can reduce stress inside a printing company. When processes are predictable, information is available where it is needed, and repetitive tasks happen automatically, experienced employees spend less time firefighting. In an industry where skilled people can be extremely difficult to replace, that has value far beyond simple productivity calculations. The conversation also introduces ECO3's Advanced Job Restoration functionality. When customer service identifies a job that needs to be reproduced, information can flow from Pace into Apogee, automatically retrieve the archived production elements and prepare the job for output — eliminating another series of manual steps. Dumont's journey is still very much in progress, and Susan is refreshingly realistic about that. Automation requires investment, resources and significant effort from employees before the benefits appear. But the destination is obvious. Fewer touches. Faster turnaround. Better information. Less stress. And an automated production environment where even a $150 digital job can make economic sense. Watch Pat McGrew with Susan Moore from Dumont Printing and James Struble from ECO3 at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.

Worth mentioning when reporting from PRINTING United is, of course, the overwhelming number of attendees. Also worth mentioning is the many awards given to products and technologies. One of the awarded products was Ricoh's Supervisor/Process Director software, enabling printing companies to monitor their entire production with a click of a button. Adding devices is easily done by entering the device's IP address; voila, you are connected. Process Director takes this further, as Kevin Wake explains and shows. With Process Director, the data can be organized into logical groups, so production is now filtered into data per employee, per production unit, per machine, and almost everything. Nice product, and though developed by Ricoh entirely vendor agnostic.

In this edition of Print Sample TV, host Pat McGrew takes you to the PRINTING United show floor and visits Koenig & Bauer. In a chat with Chris Travis, we get to see how extremely small 'dots' can increase the color gamut, how to use an offset machine to create great print effects, and yes - as usual, Pat McGrew and Chris Travis show the great print samples as inspiration for the rest of us - enjoy the episode.

It doesn't happen SO often that INKISH makes films in our backyard, but it's so nice when it happens. The first INKISH film was ALSO from Lasertryk in Denmark, but many things have changed. Back then, Xerox iGens were the workhorses of the time - now you see HP Indigo, the Canon iX3200, and, of course, the two Heidelberg XL106 - and a tonne of binding and finishing equipment. In this film, Production Manager Morten Jespersen explains how the IX3200 fits into the production and when they choose to work with either of the technologies available. Great to be back, and it is always fun to see how companies develop with a combination of focused people and the right investments! Here you can see the first INKISH film ever - also from Lasertryk :-)

In this interview, the Director of Marketing, North America, Donna Covannon, shared the history of Xeikon, and yes, Xeikon was the first commercially available digital color press. We get to hear about why Xeikon is an excellent partner for PSPs and converters and get to see some great print samples as well. Super friendly meeting Donna Covannon again - we hope you like the film!

Imagine serving millions of people yearly. Imagine consolidating numerous printing entities across a state and developing a print service provider printing more than 140,000,000 pages annually. Going from fast photocopiers to an up-to-minute modern print facility using Ricoh Inkjet, binding equipment from Tecnau, and all tight together using Solimar software - but more importantly, brilliant people like Mike Lincoln and Gilbert Gomez. Meet them in our film from Colorado State.

Inland Packaging in La Crosse in Wisconsin, USA is an amazing packing printing company that has grown over the past years. Part of the success is due to the company's investment in Tilia Labs Phoenix. As Business Analyst & Programmer Willie Spindler explains in this film, the time reduced on setup is maybe more than 50%. When we made the film Phoenix was mainly used for the offset presses in La Crosse (6 Heidelberg XL-machines), but Inland Packaging is soon going to use Phoenix also for their digital presses as well as their flexo-machines. Visiting printing companies like Inland Packaging is always great but being in La Crosse and see a company working with so many different types of labels and with so many brands shows the diversity of software like Tilia Labs Phoenix and the efficiency you can achieve using brilliant software. As usual - Watch, Like, and share!

A webinar just a few days ago said that Label Converters see up to 80% of their production being re-orders. With Labelhub, most of these orders can be 100% automated and managed by the customers freeing up capacity, enabling faster turnaround, and by all means, helping Converters. Labelhub offers their customers the option to create customer portals integrated into the Converters MIS systems. Updated designs can, with drag'n'drop, be easily replaced, proofed, stepped, and sent directly to the printing machine, including laser dies, production data, etc. Labelhub seems to be a super interesting tool, and as we speak with the founder and CEO, Peter Vogt, we learn that Labelhub is an add-on to existing MIS systems. Still, by building up the customer portals in Labelhub, you essentially make it easier for yourself if you, at some point, decide to change MIS/ERP system.

COO Courtney Sumners of Benson Integrated Marketing Solutions speaks with Robert Godwin about how her company utilizes a range of eProductivity Software solutions in their offerings to their customers. Enjoy!

Summer Hopson is part of the new generation of print professionals. Starting as the receptionist at Dumont, she quickly demonstrated her proficiency in AI and is now the strategist for bringing the technology to most areas of the business.

At PRINTING United 2019 INKISH broadcasted LIVE from various booths Friday 25th. It's always a challenge, but likely more a problem to be so successful that all leaflets and marketing materials were gone. We got a chance to talk to CEO Michał Czaicki from Printbox from the booth and here is the interview from what seems to be both a successful company appreciating a very successful tradeshow. Enjoy.

Tom Fitzgerald is responsible for Post Press Products for Koenig & Bauer North America, and for him and his company, PRINTING United has been very successful. In the interview, Fitzgerald can't hide his appreciation of the sales achieved - and as with the rest of the Koenig & Bauer team, everything seems to move up and forward. Good work, guys!