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At Canon's Power to Move event in Venlo, Morten B. Reitoft speaks with Jutta Hendrikx and Louis Van der Linden about the VarioPrint iX 1700, Canon's latest addition to its growing sheetfed inkjet portfolio. While Canon's larger sheetfed inkjet presses have attracted significant attention for their ability to replace higher-volume production environments, the VarioPrint ix 1700 has been developed to address a different segment of the market. Designed for monthly volumes starting around 300,000 A4 impressions, the press opens the door to sheetfed inkjet for print providers who may previously have considered the technology beyond their requirements or investment range. The conversation explores how the VarioPrint iX 1700 fits into Canon's broader strategy of providing customers with multiple technology options rather than forcing a choice between toner and inkjet. According to Hendrikx and Van der Linden, the market increasingly demands solutions that combine the flexibility traditionally associated with toner devices with the productivity and efficiency advantages of inkjet technology. The VarioPrint iX 1700 is intended to bridge that gap. The discussion also looks at the types of applications Canon expects the press to serve. Commercial print, brochures, postcards, greeting cards, and other high-quality applications are obvious targets, but the platform's quality also makes it relevant to markets such as photo products and premium print applications. At the same time, the machine's flexibility allows customers to configure paper input and output capacities to meet their specific production requirements. Another topic is the increasingly important role of long-sheet applications. With support for sheet sizes up to 364 × 660 mm, including duplex printing, the VarioPrint iX 1700 enables the production of products such as six-page brochures, larger-format covers, and a variety of value-added commercial print applications that traditionally required alternative production methods. Throughout the conversation, Hendrikx and Van der Linden emphasize that Canon's objective is not to replace one technology with another, but to provide customers with the widest possible range of choices. As print businesses continue to evolve, selecting the right technology becomes less about whether a device uses toner or inkjet and more about matching production volumes, applications, workflow requirements, and business objectives. Recorded at Canon's Customer Experience Center in Venlo ahead of the Power to Move event, this interview offers insight into how Canon sees the next phase of sheetfed inkjet adoption and where the VarioPrint iX 1700 fits within that vision.

Interview in English - subtitles in Dutch. INKISH Morten Reitoft talks to CEO Louis De Nolf about the ins & outs of preparing and delivering value for a trade fair such as Drupa and as an event partner and advertising agency. -- NL -- INKISH Morten Reitoft gaat in gesprek met CEO Louis De Nolf over de ins & outs van het voorbereiden en leveren van waarde voor een beurs zoals Drupa en als een event-partner en reclamebureau.

Michael Mullen started his business in Sacramento, California, four years ago; fortunately, the startup turned out great. With two toner-based label printers, Mullen is now considering inkjet and maybe even a Hybrid. Here is his story on INKISH, filmed at the BOBST Open House event in Alpharetta in December 2022. Enjoy!

INKISH hosted for the first time ever our NON-EVENT. The Non-event is celebrating the people that have been in front of the camera, or been supporting INKISH during the past years. This is a new recurring event, and the idea is to give space for the people we have featured to connect in a new way. We invited 150 people, and 32 decided to join us. Our guests came from Japan, Canada, USA, UK, Belgium, Sweden, and Denmark - and we are confident that next year, even more, will come. We asked most of our participants to talk LIVE during the dinner - and here is Lode Vlayen from Belgium. Lode Vlayen used to be the CEO of VIGC in Belgium but is today operating a consultant company. Enjoy!

Commercial manager Lizzie Bentley talks about IST Intech’s LED curing technology and the company’s recent rebranding from Integration Technology Ltd.

· Inkjet still comes with a health warning in the minds of some what is the reality · Long term user perspective · Comparisons and observations with Conventional and Toner systems. · How have systems improved – introducing the latest generation.

Live from Horizon Innovation Park in Japan, Horizon will take you to their showroom floor to demonstrate the Inkjet Press Inline Book Production System. With only a single operator, the demonstration will showcase the SCREEN Truepress Jet 520 HD Mono and inline Horizon Smart Binding System producing variable page count books using the latest in print finishing automation. During production, attendees will be able to see the efficient, labor-saving benefits of inline finishing solutions that are ready to increase the profitability of their production floor today.

At PRINTING United we did 2 hours LIVE TV daily, and October 24th was dedicated to the great people from CHILI Publish. During the day we got interviews with the people from the booth, but also a chance to get a presentation of the software by Solutions Expert Sean Crowe. Here is the first one, where editor Morten Reitoft from INKISH.TV is getting a quick tour, including walk-through of some of the new features. Excellent presentation, great software, and whau - awe-inspiring.

Self-proclaimed “women-in-print champion” and visionary Lisbeth Lyons Black talks with INKISH’s Mark Vruno about her first two years at the WIP Alliance. An important new membership initiative kicked off last month.

It was super lovely talking to Lisa Weese, who shared insights on bringing products to market. Imagine setting the right price point, marketing into channels, providing service, and all the things that make a product available when ready to be launched—genuinely great to learn from Weese, so enjoy!

At Printing United in Orlando, Morten B. Reitoft from INKISH speaks with Lisa Oakleaf from Ricoh about the company’s renewed focus on automation, AI, and software integration in commercial printing. Oakleaf, who oversees Ricoh’s software ecosystem, explains that success in modern print depends on the seamless connection between hardware and software. “If you don’t have the software,” she says, “you can’t get the results out of the hardware.” She highlights the Ricoh Pro VC8000, calling it the company’s most advanced production inkjet press to date. Built with machine learning and AI, it automates make-ready, color control, and real-time adjustments — addressing labor shortages and improving uptime. “The system takes on the work that used to require deep operator expertise,” Oakleaf notes. “It keeps the printer running and ensures consistent, high-quality output.” Oakleaf also introduces Ricoh Predictive Insight, a data-driven tool included with the VC8000 and other Ricoh presses. It monitors productivity, identifies inefficiencies, and sends alerts before issues occur, helping printers improve processes and profitability. Customers can even track true job costs by entering cost-per-piece data. Ricoh’s solutions are designed for open integration, supporting API connections and custom workflow development. “We meet customers where they are,” Oakleaf says. “Some have IT teams; others just need it to work out of the box — we can do both.” She concludes that Ricoh’s mission is to make the transition from offset to digital effortless. “We’re not leaving offset printers behind,” Oakleaf says. “We’re bringing everything they value — quality, reliability, and precision — into a smarter, more automated world.”

At PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas, Pat McGrew meets Lisa Oakleaf from Ricoh to talk about what may still be one of the company's best-kept secrets: workflow. Ricoh is obviously known for its production printing equipment, but the conversation around software has changed significantly. Instead of presenting individual workflow products and asking customers where they might fit, Ricoh is increasingly starting with the customer's actual production environment. How does the job arrive? How is it onboarded? What happens in the MIS? How does it move through prepress and preparation? Where are the bottlenecks? How much capacity is available? And how can production data be used to continuously improve the business? For Lisa, that's an important change. The solution to a production problem isn't necessarily another Ricoh product. It may be professional services, integration between existing systems, a partner technology or a combination of several technologies working together. The focus is increasingly on the outcome rather than the product. And customers are changing as well. For years, workflow was sometimes something discussed after the printing equipment had been selected. Today, Lisa sees printers increasingly starting the conversation with software, automation and integration because the hardware itself has become so capable. Skilled employees are also becoming harder to find, and much of the knowledge that traditionally resided in the heads of experienced operators needs to be captured in workflows, automation, and data. That leads naturally to AI. But Lisa makes an important distinction: before printers can extract meaningful value from AI, they need to understand and organize their data. Production information sitting in isolated systems won't suddenly become useful simply because an AI layer is added on top. The first step is therefore understanding the workflow, connecting the systems, and building a meaningful data strategy. Then AI can become genuinely useful rather than simply another industry buzzword. At PRINTING United, Ricoh has deliberately placed workflow much closer to the center of its story, showing how hardware, software, services and partner technologies can work together across an entire production environment. Because increasingly, buying a faster press isn't enough. The real question is how efficiently you can get work through the entire factory. Watch Pat McGrew's conversation with Lisa Oakleaf from Ricoh at PRINTING United 2026 in Las Vegas.

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In this Print Sample TV edition, Pat McGrew meets up with Lindy Cook from Kodak. They are looking at the beautiful samples the new Kodak Ascend delivers. As Pat McGrew explains, the machine featured is not compared to almost anything else. It's a digital printer with built-in embellishment options that would generally take MORE machines to do, but it also excels as it can print on LONG and thick substrates. So this is not only for commercial print but even for packaging and indoor signage. New dawn, we dare to say!

On the second day of LabelExpo-Americas, CERM invited Adrian Steele from Mercian Labels, UK, Stuart Morrison from Screen, and Matt Burton from ABG to discuss lights out production of labels, moderated by CEO Geert van Damme. It was interesting to learn from, so I interviewed the four gentlemen afterward about how to do it, what obstacles, and how this can benefit the entire industry. Here you have The Software part by Geert van Damme. Enjoy!

On the second day of LabelExpo-Americas, CERM invited Adrian Steele from Mercian Labels, UK, Stuart Morrison from Screen, and Matt Burton from ABG to discuss lights out production of labels, moderated by CEO Geert van Damme. It was interesting to learn from, so I interviewed the four gentlemen afterward about how to do it, what obstacles, and how this can benefit the entire industry. Here you have The Customer part by Adrian Steele. Enjoy!

On the second day of LabelExpo-Americas, CERM invited Adrian Steele from Mercian Labels, UK, Stuart Morrison from Screen, and Matt Burton from ABG to discuss lights out production of labels, moderated by CEO Geert van Damme. It was interesting to learn from, so I interviewed the four gentlemen afterward about how to do it, what obstacles, and how this can benefit the entire industry. Here you have the Printing part by Stuart Morrison. Enjoy!

On the second day of LabelExpo-Americas, CERM invited Adrian Steele from Mercian Labels, UK, Stuart Morrison from Screen, and Matt Burton from ABG to discuss lights out production of labels, moderated by CEO Geert van Damme. It was interesting to learn from, so I interviewed the four gentlemen afterward about how to do it, what obstacles, and how this can benefit the entire industry. Here you have the Finishing part by Matt Burton. Enjoy!

The future trends of workflow according to Enfocus. Link to presentation: https://grafkom.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/WS19/Enfocus_liesbet__low.pdf

This event is all about the ideas surrounding a Smart Factory and Industry 4.0; thoughts for how print and digital factories will inject innovation, intelligence and hyper-productivity. But hold on there partner, in order to get to 4.0, you need to make sure you are leveraging technologies that will help you get there. In this session, with our guests, we will talk about how you should “walk your workflow” and take note of where you have manual processes, slowdowns and bottlenecks, where there are opportunities to consolidate technologies or update with more capable, feature-rich solutions. Then we will offer you ideas for how to take this information and chart a smart path to your Smart Factory Industry 4.0. And this session will benefit any organizations dealing with print...digital or both types of product delivery channels. More specifically, we will also share some views on how PDF is becoming the defacto print and electronic standard for a multitude of industries and communication types.

BOBST is focusing on less waste, new materials, and a sustainable future. In this film, BOBST Groups, Francois Martin takes us through some of the agendas that in the companies mind will take BOBST to the next level! In this film, you will get an insight like not seen before - at least not through the eyes of INKISH. We love the openness that more and more vendors have, and we totally believe in this agenda. Dig into this film and enjoy! LinkedIn profile

Leopoldo Bravo Camposeco manages the DURST business in Mexico and the rest of Latin America - a huge market with great potential. In the interview with Editor Morten B. Reitoft, Camposeco discusses the opportunities, how DURST delivers value from software to hardware, and helps customers develop. Great chat - check for yourself :-)

At Expográfica in Guadalajara, Leopoldo Bravo Camposeco from DURST Mexico reflects on the company’s 20-year presence in the Mexican market and the rapid evolution of industrial digital printing technologies. The conversation highlights DURST’s launch of its third-generation label press technology in Mexico and Latin America, alongside developments in large-format printing, digital cutting, and high-speed single-pass inkjet production. Leopoldo “Polo” Bravo Camposeco explains how the Mexican print market continues demanding highly productive, long-term investment solutions while increasingly adopting industrial digital workflows across packaging, corrugated, and commercial applications. The interview also explores how technologies that once belonged primarily to large-format graphics are now becoming integrated into fully industrial production environments with higher speeds, greater efficiency, and increasing automation.

On day 1 of Printpack India, Wayne Beckett is on the show floor to meet Leo Joseph, Managing Director of Xerox India, for an exclusive look at the company’s impressive booth. Leo walks us through the full range of Xerox’s production printing solutions on display, from the flagship Iridesse to the Versant 4100 and V280, along with two exciting new launches for the Indian market—the 9281 and 9265. These latest additions to the portfolio are designed to cater to the growing demand for entry-level production color printing, offering new opportunities for businesses across India, from major metropolitan hubs to emerging tier-two and tier-three cities. As digital printing continues to evolve rapidly in the region, Leo shares insights on the accelerating adoption of new technologies and the expanding range of applications for Xerox’s solutions. From commercial print shops to in-house production environments, these machines' versatility and innovation are shaping the industry's future. Tune in to this insightful conversation as Wayne and Leo discuss what’s next for digital printing in India and how Xerox is positioning itself at the forefront of this transformation.