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.

At the SpicyTalks18 in Amsterdam CEO Kevin Goeminne from Chili-Publish spoke with INKISH.TV about partnerships, the new Universal Graphics Engine (UGE) and how Chili-Publish looks ahead of a bright future for its products and services. Great conversation - thank you Kevin :-)

At the Argos Inspiration days 2018, Owner Jos Claes gave a great presentation of the 2Imagine web-platform that enable brand owners to manage and maintain their design identity.

Sharp is a well-recognized brand in consumer electronics and also in the office print segment. Did you know that they also produce production print? We met with Jonne Zacharisson from Sharp Business Systems in Sweden and spoke about their booth, products, and view on the market in general. Please enjoy.

Please welcome John Mullins who we have met several times at various exhibitions - mostly in the US - but John Mullins and PrintVis continues to market and present their MIS system, that is built into Microsoft NAV. Previously PrintVis has been more for the bigger guys in our industry, but with Office 365 integration AND Cloud solutions, maybe it is time to look at what they offer. Here John Mullins speaks about the latest release.

At the Argos Inspiration Days 2018, Operational Planning & Solutions Manager James Belton gave a great speech about investing in finishing equipment in order to avoid pitfalls.

Well - being an international TV-channel for- and about the printing industry requires some traveling - and we made a short (4 min) look back at 2017. 2018 looks even more exciting with respect to traveling and we have already been in both the US and in Belgium in 2018. Enjoy our journey.

Paper is one of the most commoditized products in the printing industry - however, if the industry is going to make more money maybe printers should shift focus from commodity paper to special- and branded- paper much more than now. We at INKISH believe that an increased focus on paper can be both profitable and also bring higher value to our customers. This is our first time we do an episode like this - ok satisfied, room for improvement - feel free to comment and suggest.

INKISH.TV proudly present I/O GRAFKOM 2016 this time in Stockholm, March 17th. This amazing event is an recurring industry event in Sweden with internation participant as speakers.. Ulf Sunnberg and Ola Karlsson are driving forces for this event and INKISH.TV talk to them about the event, that of course will be covered on your favourite TV-channel.

INKISH.TV proudly present I/O GRAFKOM 2016 this time in Stockholm, March 17th. This amazing event is an recurring industry event in Sweden with internation participant as speakers.. Ulf Sunnberg and Ola Karlsson are driving forces for this event and INKISH.TV talk to them about the event, that of course will be covered on your favourite TV-channel.

"We are the Bosch of the printing industry" Henrik Kristensen claim in this interview made at Print17 in Chicago 2017 - and he is right. In equipment from most major print vendors, you'll find Tresu manufactured products. TRESU has four divisions and in this interview you can hear more about what they do and their tremendous success in the market - not only by one VP, but from two VP's - please welcome Henrik Kristensen and Allan Sander.

At the Argos Inspiration Days 2018, Area Manager Harm Jan Hulleman gave a presentation of Tecnau's ingenious products made for commercial book production as well as on-demand production.

At the Argos Inspiration Days 2018 VP Marketing & Partnering Hans Gut from Hunkeler gave a speech about how Hunkeler sees the future in finishing and development of digital print.

Canon Denmark's Production Marketing Manager Hans Dalmeijer is very satisfied with the results of their presence at the latest Sign, Print & Pack exhibition.

Information is key. Knowledge a need. Sharing is a tool - and in Denmark, the Federation of printers Grakom - has once more put a fantastic program together. Multiple simultaneous tracks with speakers talking about management, disruption, behavior - well - so many tracks and so little time. We at INKISH.TV has made a small voxpop from the event and will shortly follow up with interviews. Stay tuned.

Sharing is the DNA of Grafkom I/O and therefore also one of the major reasons why we at INKISH.TV simply love this event. This year's Grafkom I/O was held in Gothenburg, Sweden - and this time there were more international speakers than in the previous I/O's. The event was action packed with content like information about the new European Unions GDPR program - which can be a tremendous challenge for - well - almost everybody. Another very exciting speaker was @Marc Freitag from Livonia Print in Riga, Latvia. Not only has Livonia taken a lot of market shares in the book market, but the visions for how they want to grow, even more, as explained by Marc Freitag. The new co-owner of Grafkom Magnus Thorkildsen is currently holding a position as CEO of the Norwegian printing industry and gave a very inspiring speech about how Norwegian printers has been suffering over oil prices, high labour cost and more - a speech which was much aligned with our own view on information that in our opinion is tremendously important for people working with Sales and Management. Your humble editor Morten Bech Reitoft was also on the podium speaking about "The mystery of prices" - This will soon be a book that you can buy from INKISH. In this postcard, you can see the speakers and though we suffered from huge technical problems (primarily sound) - you can see most of the sessions on our YouTube channel. Thank you for your support - always - and we look SO much forward to 2018 with many new films, exciting new products and services and more.

Once again Grafkom I/O was fantastic. The bi-annual event, simply gives inspiration by offering the audience great speeches about content that matters. The network is obviously equally important. We at INKISH.TV is so proud, that we have this small opportunity to share and spread the words about this conference. As mentioned before - wish all countries had their Grafkoms. Watch this episode and listen to the two exciting interviews with Maria Westman from Brand New Communication and Thomas Petersson, Chairman of the Board in MIS provider Omikai.