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RPI has operations in the US and Europe, and partners in Australie able to deliver consistent digital print globally down to the copy of one. We met with Joris Kuper, Account Manager New Sales, RPI Europe, at the recent Online Print Symposium in Munich. Great story.

In the middle of our presentations from Standard Finishing at PRINTING United, we suddenly see Rosemarie Garvey from Blooming Color. Of course, we ask her for a short statement about Horizon; as we know, Blooming Color focuses on HP, Horizon (sold by Standard Finishing), and Ultimate - so listen to her words here.

A few days before Rosemarie Breske Garvey and her team headed to Indianapolis to be part of DSCOOP, we visited Blooming Color in a sub-urban in Chicago - and it's super great to see Rosemarie Breske Garvey again. The last time we met was at DSCOOP Rockies in Denver, and now, I guess you understand that we are visiting a very dedicated businesswoman working with HP. A few days before our visit, the LAST offset press was removed from the site - and the digital transformation is complete. We are visiting Blooming Color because they use Ultimate Tech Impostrip and Bindery in the company, and with an increasing number of orders of one, the Ultimate Tech software has become a cornerstone in the company. Enjoy the film, and GREAT visiting this super smart company. Long live Commercial Print.

Great to talk to the newly appointed sales director for Komfi, shedding some light on their newly built business strategy that will emphasize more the worldwide rollout of their product portfolio through direct representation and also new partnerships. We learn that they see a bright future and growth for print embellishment, for which they offer a great array of solutions. Exciting to hear that this Chech company is establishing itself even more as one of the go-to brands for digital and traditional printed products. It's exciting go-to

In this film, Rolf Scmidtke from Kurz discusses sustainability and how the entire life-cycle solution is developed. For now, in the northern part of Europe, later - enjoy!  

Though HP didn't bring an Advantage T2200 to Indianapolis, you could still learn a lot - on the product site, they released a plus pack that enables the press to run colors at 800 feet per minute, the same speed as monochrome - so with that said we got an opportunity to learn more about the print heads that are rather unique to HP. But rather than having me explain these, here is Rolando Martinez - enjoy!

Canon has one of the largest booths at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas — and even with 9,600 square feet, Rolando Martinez says they still couldn't bring everything. Morten B. Reitoft meets Rolando to look at just how broad Canon's production portfolio has become, spanning toner, sheetfed inkjet, continuous-feed inkjet and an increasingly extensive range of wide-format technologies. In wide format, the Colorado XL takes Canon's UVgel technology into a completely different production class with an 11-foot hybrid platform, while Arizona and the DigiTech Texas platforms cover flatbed applications, automation and even robotic handling. But much of the conversation focuses on production inkjet. The new varioPRINT iX1700 fills an important space between high-volume toner and Canon's faster sheetfed inkjet platforms. For commercial printers looking to move more work from toner — or begin shifting offset applications into inkjet — it provides another step on the production ladder. At the other end is the varioPRESS iV7. The B2+ inkjet press isn't physically at PRINTING United, but Canon is demonstrating its capabilities through an interactive experience. For Rolando, the iV7 illustrates how dramatically inkjet has evolved: quality is increasingly comparable with offset, while productivity is now moving into territory traditionally associated with conventional presses. And toner isn't standing still either. Canon is showing the second generation imagePRESS V900 II, demonstrating that development continues across both technologies. The result is an increasingly broad production portfolio where printers can choose technology based on volume, turnaround time, applications and economics rather than simply deciding between “digital” and “offset.” Competition remains strong, and Rolando welcomes it. But Canon clearly believes that as commercial printers continue moving work toward digital production, having technologies that span from toner through B2+ and continuous-feed inkjet puts the company in an interesting position. And Morten has one prediction: one day every offset printer may also have a varioPRESS iV7. Rolando doesn't seem to disagree. Watch Morten B. Reitoft's conversation with Rolando Martinez from Canon at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.

RolandDG is one of the leading companies in the printing industry for large format, contour cutting, and machines that extend the boundaries of what's possible. See for yourself at www.argosinspirationdays.com in Brussels

Roland DG has always been considered a work-horse and in the upper segment of their segment and at Argos Inspiration Days we got the chance to talk to Business Development Manager Jeroen Kooij from Roland DG Benelux. In this short film, you can the amazing products and what opportunities i.e. the VersaUV offer printing companies and their customers.

Think about it. A family-owned ink manufacturer more than 250 years old and still on the top of the development curve. In this interview with Roland Schröder from Huber Group, we get some interesting background about the Munich-based Huber Group, and not only do we see and learn about the company, but also why UV inks are increasingly interesting, as the LED-technology becomes more and more capable. Roland Schröder shows a magazine printed on a web-offset press where the gas heating has been replaced with LED-UV. Super great result, and shown as it explains why the higher price on UV inks isn't a problem if you look at the entire production process - but don't take my word for it, listen to Roland Schröder - Super cool guy :-)

Business goes well in Switzerland, according to CEO Roland Eicher. With his company placed in beautiful Lucern, he has changed his business from a purely offset printing company to an almost entirely digital printing company today. Besides print and binding for his customers, Eicher Druck also operates as a binding partner for several other Swiss companies. Roland Eicher is at The Finishing First event to learn and invest in new technology - and the deal has been signed - a new Horizon Stitchliner MK III is on its way to Switzerland!

Nouvelle stratégie commerciale chez Roland DG où ils ciblent plus qu'avant le marché d'entrée de gamme. Lorsque ces débutants et adoptants grandissent et doivent adapter leurs machines et vitesses de production actuelles, Roland a tout ce dont ils ont besoin pour soutenir leur croissance. —— New commercial strategy at Roland DG where they are targeting the entry-level market more than before. When these beginners and adopters grow larger and need to adapt their current production machines and speeds, Roland has everything they would need to support their growth.

Roger Popovec talks about US converter DRG Technologies' experience integrating CERM's workflow software into its production of labels, tags, and flexible packaging across multiple sites and the productivity and efficiency gains brought to the company.

At IGAS, we saw more robots than ever before at any tradeshow. Henrik Christiansen from Cool Graphics is a well-known robot/cobot specialist in the printing industry. In this film, he walks us through several different types of robots and explains when it's called a cobot and when it's called a robot. What is the difference between an AMR and an AGV, and why two arms instead of one? We also get a view of the different types of grippers, so in short, a guided tour of the different types of robots and how they are utilized in our industry. GREAT - so watch it :-)

Autonomous mobile robots are easy to notice. They move pallets, reels, and materials around the production floor without anyone pushing a pallet jack. But according to Paul van der Horst, the robot itself is only the visible part of the solution. At Loupe Americas in Chicago, Wayne Beckett meets Paul on the HP booth to talk about AMRs — Autonomous Mobile Robots — and why the real value comes from the intelligence behind them. A printing press may be producing faster than the finishing equipment downstream. A cutter may suddenly be occupied. A binder may stop. A pallet may need to be removed immediately so the press can continue running. Production never follows a perfectly fixed sequence. That means material handling can't either. The system continuously monitors what is happening across the shop floor, creates transport tasks, changes priorities in real time, and decides where material should go next. If a finishing station isn't ready, the pallet can be moved to an intermediate location, tracked, and automatically delivered when capacity becomes available. The AMR performs the physical movement. The software makes the decisions. Integration with MIS data, production priorities, cameras, and live shop-floor information allows the system to react to what is actually happening rather than simply following a predetermined route. Wayne has already seen the technology operating at BlueTree, which Paul describes as a flagship installation. The company started with just two robots, but quickly expanded the fleet as the benefits became clear. And there is another important part of the story. Employees were initially concerned that robots might replace jobs. Instead, the AMRs removed many of the tasks people disliked most — transporting heavy pallets, fetching materials, and repeatedly walking across the production floor. With skilled labor increasingly difficult to find, automation can therefore become as much about retaining people as replacing manual processes. In this INKISH film, Wayne Beckett talks with Paul van der Horst about AMRs, intelligent material flow, bottlenecks, MIS integration, BlueTree, labor shortages, and why successful robotics isn't really about moving things from A to B. It's about knowing exactly what should move — and when.

German language with English/German subtitles Richard Müller is the production manager of one of Europe's largest online printing companies, Saxoprint. We were invited by Horizon to see how robots are used along with Horizon's BQ series of binding machines, and the result is a solution that requires a minimum of operator intervention. Amazing to see, but in this film, we try to cover the full story of how automation has become increasingly important in digital and analog production. We also published an article on INKISH.NEWS about SAXOPRINT (In English) - you can read it here: https://inkish.news/article/MTMyOQ== -- add on --- our friends from Printmedianieuws found inspiration in the article above and the film published on INKISH.TV, and wrote this follow-up article in Dutch - you can read it here, requires a premium subscription!

Wayne has an interesting chat with Robin Asmuss from Mercedes Benz. Robin is responsible for the selection of internal paint for Mercedes and explains why UV curing so so important to them.

Large format press manufacturer swissQprint are demonstrating a wide range of large format applications using UV curing. Roberto talks about how business is growing in this market and the wide range of solutions his company can offer.

At the Seiko Open Week 2022, you get the opportunity to get kind of behind the scene. How do ink- and substrate manufacturers test their products? Even printhead manufacturers need test equipment, and that is exactly what Roberto Campos from People&Technology show in this interview. The company has two main products - one is the above-mentioned ink testers. The second product line is machines made to clean printheads when they start making stripes or have other artifacts. Interesting to see how this works, and a world, that many most likely don't know! Enjoy!

At FESPA Barcelona 2026, Wayne from INKISH speaks with Robert Zehnpfenning from Kolbus about the growing opportunities in the corrugated packaging market and the company’s latest production solutions. Exhibiting in FESPA’s dedicated corrugated section, Kolbus presents both its Box Maker and Rotary Die Cutter systems, attracting strong interest from visitors across Spain and international markets. The conversation focuses on the Kolbus Box Maker, designed for small to medium production runs of highly customized corrugated packaging. Combining integrated digital printing with servo-driven automation and rapid setup times of around 60 seconds, the system enables flexible and efficient short-run production. Zehnpfenning also discusses the company’s heavy-duty rotary die cutter, built with robust German engineering for medium to large production volumes, emphasizing precision, durability, and high-performance manufacturing. Together, they discuss how automation, intelligent controls, and flexible production are becoming increasingly important within corrugated packaging as converters seek faster turnaround times, greater customization, and more efficient workflows. The interview also highlights Kolbus’ expanding international presence, including installations in markets such as Mexico, and the company’s continued focus on innovation within corrugated production technology.

Wayne Beckett from Inkish interviews Robert Rae, Managing Director of GEW, at LabelExpo 2025 in Barcelona. Robert shares that the show has been incredibly busy, with GEW’s stand packed and orders already being placed. He explains that GEW is a global company turning over about £65 million annually, employing 160 people, and operating three factories in the United Kingdom. Their UV curing systems are installed in over 70 countries, with more than 100,000 UV lamps running worldwide, supported by 40 distributors who handle service and spare parts. While 60–70% of GEW’s business comes from OEM partnerships with leading press manufacturers—including Nilpeter—the other 30–40% is direct with end users, particularly for retrofitting older machines. The big focus at LabelExpo is GEW’s ArcLED technology, which allows users to easily switch from mercury-based UV lamps to energy-efficient LED curing. Robert explains that switching to LED delivers many benefits: 50–70% lower energy consumption, reduced CO₂ emissions, lower web temperatures, improved registration, no ozone extraction, lower maintenance, and more consistent process control. He notes that every GEW system made since 2015 using their Rhino or RLT power supplies is LED-ready. Retrofitting involves simply swapping the mercury cassette for an LED cassette and doing a quick software update, which can convert a press to LED in just one to two hours. The return on investment is typically under two years thanks to energy savings and efficiency gains, and customers can still switch back to mercury instantly if needed. Discussing the United States market, Robert says recent tariffs and currency fluctuations have created some uncertainty and dampened customer confidence. Still, GEW continues manufacturing in the UK and is working closely with partners to minimize the impact on customers. He concludes by noting that with LED now making up about half of GEW’s production—and over 3,000 LED modules built for the narrow web market last year—the shift to LED has become a clear industry standard.

Robert Olsson from DS Smith has one of the most exciting job titles in our mind - Print Performance Development Manager. In this interview, we get a chance to understand how changes in the market influence demand and production and how DS-Smith manages this. DS Smith is a customer with BHS and uses the opportunity of the BHS Open House to learn more :-)

Robert provides insight into how sales teams must be brought into the loop when it comes to introducing new technologies to the shop. Explains the value of digital label printing while still offering flexo solutions. Educating sales so they can educate the client is crucial to success.

It must be super exciting for Rob McCann, as he is moving from the US to Switzerland with his family to start a new position with BOBST—namely, the Tooling Director. In this interview, Rob McCann talks about how IoT is not just nice to have but a must to have. We, of course, also ask about how he will be bridging services, tools, new machines, etc., together as the entire ecosystem seems to be more and more integrated. Super interesting interview!