To the printing industry. PrintNext18 in Stockholm was by far the best event in the Grafkom history - more than 230 participants from many countries. The aim to become a truly international event with a dedicated focus on knowledge and sharing of the same is evident! You should have been there, Love INKISH

INKISH covered the Argos Inspiration Days in Brussels this year and we have already published many hours of speeches recorded live during the show. When we cover events we always make a postcard from the event to give a taste of the event and to inspire you to go next time. Enjoy!

Chili Publish is one of the most recognized software companies in the printing industry. With their successful Chili platform, the company has enabled customers to handle their brand-identity on the internet and allowed hundreds if not thousands of printers to offer even complex services online. For the fourth year in a row, Chili Publishing is hosting their SPICY talks - this time in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Almost 200 people from all over the world attended the conference that gave tremendous options to talk techniques, business, development and, networking. INKISH was attending only on the last day - but it was great and we hope to cover the full event at SPICY talks19. Shortly we will bring an interview with Don Schminkey from Channel Fusion and a Conversation with CEO Kevin Goeminne.

Peter Froberg is a partner in the company Innovation Lab and one of the speakers at the recent Grakomdagen in Denmark. At the event, he gave a speech about maybe one of the most hyped expressions, namely Disruption and we asked for an interview afterward to understand more about the difference between disruption and innovation.

Xerox is not only the producer of some of the most printing machines in the world but also a developer of software that can support your optimization of your processes in your printing company. One of the products under the FreeFlow umbrella is "Core" and at the annual meeting for Federation of Printers in Norway Per Arild Alfheim explained the value of automation. In a break, we got a chance to talk with Per Arild Alfheim about why printers need to invest in automation and workflow.

Patrick George from PrintSites explains in this INKISH.TV film about PrintSites - one of the rather large e-commerce exhibitors at GraphExpo 2016. PrintSites have taken SaaS solutions a step further and also help their customers with first-line customer support. This is truly great and new in our opinion. As usual, please watch, Like and Share.

At the recent GraphExpo we've got the opportunity to talk to a dear friend of INKISH.TV - Pat McGrew. We first met her (she didn't know) at GraphExpo, when she was awarded the Girlie Award, second time was at GrafKom in Sweden and finally, we got a chance to meet with her. Pat McGrew is now with Keypoint Intelligence (previously known as InfoTrends) and responsible for workflows. Really cool and great to know her. See the episode and as usual, please watch, like and share...

Honestly, this visit was quite a surprise. Most companies in the world aim for growth and fortunately, there is not one single recipe for success. Buchs is from a medium size town in Denmark, Randers - and is a quite old company. It used to be a traditional printing company but the current partners have turned Buchs into a diverse business focusing on communication from A to Z. They have acquired Internet companies. They have acquired signage companies and what is also quite interesting is their business in Vietnam where 55 employees produce pre-press for magazines. Actually almost EVERY magazine from the larger publishers in Denmark. See, Like, Get Inspired by seeing this quite unusual company from Denmark.

In this INKISH episode, we take a look at the paper and print in the public space. Sometimes we simply forget to let us inspire from the print that surrounds us daily.

Gitte Amby, Jan Justesen, and Lars Justesen are the three family members behind one of the leading binderies in Denmark. This interview is the second in a mini-series about growth. We have already presented Buch's who have chosen a growth pass as a full-service provider. Centrum Grafisk Færdiggørelse is growing through M&A's and a clear strategy for products, services, and customers - and though in a small market and declining they seem to have a clear focus. We will get back with more information about the third company in the series in just a few weeks. This episode is in Danish with English subtitles - if you have problems seeing the subtitles when played from INKISH.TV please go directly to our YouTube channel for closed captions (CC).

In a time where many printers are struggling to get more customers, one of the solutions is obviously to add a web-to-print service to your selection of sales platforms and in this episode we speak with the Indian company RadixWeb, who for almost a decade have been delivering the OnPrintShop web-to-print solution. This episode is not so much about the solution it self, but more about the company behind at least one of the more than 800 solutions globally. We will soon start to introduce more knowledge about web-to-print in general and also offer our viewers information about where to get balanced information. One of the leading web-to-print people in the world is Bernd Zipper from www.zipcon.de and though his site is in German he speaks and write perfect English.

Nils Petter Nordskar gave a brilliant presentation at the annual meeting in Trondheim, Norway for the federation of Norwegian printers. He spoke clearly about how to get results and most important that the printing industry has a HUGE undiscovered potential.

The paper industry has also been challenged since the financial crisis took off in 2008, but Antalis has developed new strategies, products, and services and seems to be in good shape for the future. Please listen to Mickael Gohier from Antalis - he is a quite interesting guy, who share some of his ideas with you - here on INKISH.TV.

Keeping track on investments, mergers and acquisitions, jobs and KPI's is important for most of todays modern managers in the printing industry, and in Norway the industry gets this information served by Kjetil Fless and his Media Monitor. Please welcome Kjetil Fless and our first episode from Norway.

At the Argos Inspiration Days 2018, Applications Development Senior Manager Mathew Faulkner gave a really great presentation about the amazing possibilities with print. Canon has developed an imaginary brand "The Elemental" which is a full design of a shop, products, signage, decor etc. to showcase the possibilities.

Marius Karlsen is a Concept Developer from the Norwegian company iNord. At the recent annual meeting for the members of the Federation of Printers in Norway, Marius Karlsen gave a great and very lively speech about the great tools offered by Google. Is Print Dead? A question asked these days by Pat McGrew from Keypoint Intelligence and Kevin Craine in their new podcast of the same name - however - Marius Karlsen said "You can use the platforms to sell the really sexy things - which is print" and when he handed over his business cards to the interested audience, this was letterpress printed business cards - all underscoring his statement. Take a listen to iNord's Marius Karlsen - quite clever and quite interesting guy.

Magnus Thorkildsen is CEO for Grafisk Bransjeforening - or federation of printers in Norway - and with this great interview INKISH kind of conclude our Nordic tour, where we have asked the same questions to the CEO's of the federations in Denmark. Sweden, Finland and now Norway.

At the Argos Inspiration Days 2018, Luc Augustinus from Peleman Industries and Erik Keuppens from Imaging Solutions gave a great presentation about Lay-Flat binding. According to the two gentlemen, Lay-Flat binding is an opportunity to create better value on printed books - see for yourself.

Luc Augustinus is head of Business Development for Peleman Industries in Belgium and if that doesn't ring a bell for you, it may be because they are way more known for their Unibind products. At Argos Inspiration Days in Brussels, we got the chance to talk to Luc Augustinus about their latest invention - the Vpaper Tower. The Vpaper Tower is a machine that adds a double crease to a paper making it possible to use in Lay-flat bound products, like photo-books, textbooks and well - pretty much every application you can think of. Take a look at the video and see for yourself what Vpaper is all about.!

At DRUPA in 2016, our friends from Enfocus in Belgium announced the X-Treme Switchover program and when INKISH.TV was asked to cover some of the programs we were SO excited about this. To recap briefly on the Switchover program the entire program aims to give an honest and openhearted view on the entire process from requirements, implementation, and results when getting a workflow implemented. How often do you meet a vendor that also show the obstacles, the worries, and the considerations whether this is worth investing in? The 'winner' or to be more precise the printer selected is Sign-Age in Clearwater, FL. Great family operated large format and signage company with motivated staff ready for exploring automation in their company. We really enjoyed the stay, the program and the great opportunity to be part of the X-treme switchover and we sincerely hope that you will view this, read more on the campaign site you will find with Enfocus and listen, learn and well - who knows, maybe be inspired for some kind of automation in your printing company as well.

At the Argos Inspiration Days 2018, Trainer and Application Specialist Laurent De Wilde gave a great presentation about the benefits of automation using Enfocus Switch.

Please welcome Marketing Manager and Co-Owner Lasse Svärd from Gafs Kartong, Sweden. Gafs Kartong is the first customer in Scandinavia who have bought the Highcon Euclid laser die cutting machine. The machine is truly amazing as well as the company who expect and foresee growth with this add on to the company's extensive range of equipment!

This is the third episode in our INKISH.TV BizzView/talk interviews and as usual we ask pretty much the same questions, but the challenges and the answers differs. In this episode the Finish CEO of the federation explains about a VERY interesting scientific research that has been conducted by a Finish Prof. Petri Parvinen. On INKISH.TV an English summary can be downloaded for inspiration

Königsdruck in Berlin is a printing house that have invested in the AMS LED-UV solution on their relative new KBA Rapida-106. Königsdruck print fine art and have build a reputation around its amazing quality. Air Motion Systems who is the developer of the AMS LED-UV solution is using Königsdruck for the DRUPA brochures and we are quite certain that the print will give the visitors a great understanding of what is possible with LED-UV.