Imaging Solutions from Switzerland has its roots in the photo industry. Still, as you can hear in this interview with Marketing Manager André Schlösser, the company's solutions are perfect for PSPs working with photo products - and with software to enhance resolution, software to create images, new substrates that reproduce stunning photos, and company's flagship lay flat photobook product - not a booth to miss at the upcoming Hunkeler Innovationdays. Enjoy!

At Hunkeler Innovationdays, you can meet people from Hybrid Software Group. The company operates in seven segments, delivering software, hardware, and back-end technology to OEMs and developing different kinds of technology, i.e., Inkjet. In 2021, Hybrid Software Group acquired Hybrid Software, one of the leading workflow/automation solution providers today. In this interview, CEO Mike Rottenborn shares what you can expect in Lucern and how beautifully the different entities support each other- now all under one company group name. Exciting to learn about it!

As Hunkeler Innovationdays gets closer, INKISH has invited all exhibitors to give an interview with Editor Morten B. Reitoft to get an idea about what to expect. In this episode, we get to talk to Kris Albee from HP. She is based in San Diego and works with many interesting things. In this interview, you'll learn what to expect from HP at Innovationdays - applications. Of course, according to Albee, the new HP T-series Advantage 2200 will be presented with interesting additions. Enjoy!

Horizon and Hunkeler have been close partners for many years, and as they have technology that supports each other, it's only natural to showcase these solutions at Innovationdays. Yasuo Taketsugu explains in this film how technology originates and that Horizon is both markets- and engineer-driven. At Hunkeler Innovationdays, Horizon will show several solutions - and even a brand new one. So stay tuned! Films referred to the interview: https://inkish.tv/inkish-video/friedmann/ https://inkish.tv/inkish-video/esser/

Harris & Bruno exhibits at Hunkeler Innovationdays, and in this interview, Juan Soto talks to Editor Morten B. Reitoft about the wonderful opportunities the company's products offer. Harris & Bruno works with coating for almost all technologies, along with other technologies, but as you can learn in this film, Harris & Bruno see opportunities with their coaters that can be used both for pre-treatment before print and post-coating using different types of varnishes and coatings. A really nice interview. Apologize for the slight delays you may hear from California to Denmark. Enjoy!

We have invited ALL exhibitors from Hunkeler Innovationdays to talk to Editor Morten B. Reitoft about what to expect. We are excited to present each company as we get the recordings done - and yes, we will cover INNOVATIONDAYS from the show floor from February 27th to March 2nd - and we can't wait. Interviews, product presentations, and tons of great news. Our first guest is Piet De Pauw from Enfocus. In this chat with INKISH, he explains Switch, Tilia Labs, and what you can expect from them in Lucern.

In this interview, Editor Morten B. Reitoft talks with Senior Vice President Randy Vandagriff from Eastman Kodak. In the interview, you will understand the ecosystem Kodak is developing with data from their plate business, software, and hardware business. Randy Vandagriff has extensive knowledge of inkjet, as he has worked on some of the core technologies you find in Kodak technology. At Hunkeler Innovationdays, attendees will get the opportunity to see the Kodak Prosper Ultra 520 press for the first time in Europe - and it seems to be a product not to miss. See you!

In this interview with Kutscha Marco from delfort, you'll learn how amazing thinprint paper is and how delfort, with 6 mills, continues to focus on producing specialty graphical paper. Specialties are inkjet paper from 36g, and uncoated paper down to 16g - and if you think applications, the delfort website takes a slightly different approach by identifying applications where their paper fits - think leaflets for medicine, think small booklets. Even with delfort’s new 74g paper, magazine production is possible saving weight, but even more importantly, reduce CO2 emissions. All of the above you can learn from this film and discover by yourself at the Hunkeler Innovationdays, 27.02 – 02.03.2023 in Luzern.

Last day at Hunkeler Innovationdays. Great event and a warm recommendation for the 2025 edition. Thanks to all the wonderful people that accepted our interview requests, all the people that stopped us and cheered our work, and last but not least, all the people watching all the content my fantastic team created during Innovationdays 2023. Thanks to all the fantastic people working with Hunkeler - it's been fun working with you, and gee, do we rock together? :-)

A great third day of Innovationdays with a continuous wealth of learning. Talking to PSPs, vendors, specialists, and even a friend from Keypoint Intelligence. Don't say we are not bringing the world into your living room :-)

Innovationdays have become a significant event for almost all companies and visitors the event is an overwhelming show of equipment, meetings, people, old friends, and so many inputs, that at least your INKISH team has no problems falling a sleep after busy days - and often followed up by dinner parties, meetings, etc. in the evenings. Day 2 was great and we interviewed quite a few people - many already published on INKISH.TV - so tune in, and enjoy!

An amazing day. Today is the opening day for Hunkeler Innovationdays and, at the same time) Frans Hunkelers 81st birthday. With more than 3,000 attendees busy checking samples and technology and catching up with people they haven't seen for ages, this is the frame of what we all know as the must-attend show - Hunkeler Innovationdays. We will do our best to cover printers, binders, binding machines, and software solutions during the next few days, and in the meanwhile, see our first postcard to update yourself. Enjoy!

In this interview leading up to Hunkeler Innovationdays, Project Manager Matthias Heinz gives us an overview of why Symphony from CTRL-S is an important product. With Symphony, you can control your workflow, add the components you want, and manage from the same user interface. This means total overview, easier and faster onboarding for new employees, and easy/painless exchange of workflow components if needed. It all sounded logical, so maybe you should listen to Matthias Heinz, or even better, visit CTRL-S at Innovationdays in Lucern!

This is a VERY important chat between Executive Vice President Scott Baker from Crawford Technologies and Editor Morten B. Reitoft. All the personal and sometimes financial data handled by thousands of printing companies need to be managed, not only to the law but also to ensure privacy, security, and the trust customers put in our hands when we print data. Crawford Technologies specializes in software that enables the secure encrypted transfer of data and the ability to track data so the exact location of that piece of data is known to those who are supposed to know. This is important! Enjoy!

Contiweb is one of the leading specialists in heavy un-winding and re-winding, and has for fifty years delivered solutions to web-offset and, with a declining market, over the past years, developed super smart solutions to the digital space. Besides the winding solutions, Contiweb has also developed coaters, moisturizers, etc. In this interview with Rob Bosman from Contiweb, you'll get a bit of history, a lot about the products, and of course, what to expect from Contiweb at the Hunkeler Innovationdays.

Jennifer Kolloczek talks to Morten B. Reitoft about Canon's customer-centric approach to success and also how Canon seeds the market with events, applications, and support to the industry beyond 'just' Canon. At Innovationdays in Lucern, Canon will showcase its latest technology and even some technology that hasn't been revealed yet - I can't wait to see and hear what it is. Enjoy the nice and very open-minded interview with Jennifer Kolloczek, and plan to visit Canon's booth at Hunkeler Innovationdays!

Bronte is a book-of-one-in-a-box software solution developed and used by one of Europe's largest digital book manufacturers, Rotomail, in Milan. In this interview, you can learn more about the background and, of course, also get to know about Francesco Crotti, who has an exciting background in the industry, and now consults for Bronte to get the software into more printing companies all over the world! Bronte will be presented at Hunkeler Innovationdays and are into books-of-one production for sure worth a visit!

Bernd Sauter is the CEO of the German company KAMA located in Dresden, Germany. The company has a LONG history going back to 1894 - and since the early 1900s, KAMA has developed finishing and embellishment equipment. In this interview with CEO Bernd Sauter, who has a background in Müller Martini, he explains how important software is to support short runs and fast setup times. He also explains how KAMA makes parts exchangeable to maximize a KAMA machine's productivity from folding, cuttings, foilings,and more - in both Commercial and Packaging. Interesting and something you should check out at Innovationdays!

in a world with more and more water-based Inkjet Devices, Adphos drying technology becomes super interesting as it dries out the weather without heating the substrate. James Burbidge from Adphos explains it super in this film!  

Beltz Graphische Betriebe, located in Bad Langensalza (between Kassel and Leipzig) is a 180 year old family owned and managed company. With a 2.5 million Euro investment into digital printing and digital print finishing equipment from Hunkeler the company optimized its production process for short run soft- and hardcover books.

Hunkeler has been a pioneer, together with partners like Horizon International, integrating post press with advanced automation. Morten Reitoft will moderate a wide-ranging discussion between Hans Gut of Hunkeler and Mark Hunt of Standard Finishing Systems to review state-of-the-industry in Smart Manufacturing, and how lean principles, process automation and intelligent connectivity are guiding post press product development. To stay competitive today, printers are looking to lower labor costs, minimize touch points and streamline data-driven production workflows. Hunkeler solutions address nearly every print market segment – commercial, direct mail, book manufacturing and transactional print – so this lively exchange of ideas will cover lots of ground.

The media got the embargoed press release about 20 minutes before the information could be published at 16:00, December 6th, 2023 - which is BREAKING news. Of course, acquisitions between companies like Hunkeler and Müller Martini will always create headlines and have consequences. However, this is not just an acquisition, but in our view, a game-changer for several reasons. First of all, we believe it will change the dynamics in the finishing industry - and yes, initially only in the digital space. However, as the digital space continues to grow, the impact of a merged Müller Martini with Hunkeler can have huge opportunities. We are, in particular, curious about what this does to the long-time relationship between Horizon and Hunkeler - mainly because the two companies have worked closely together for years, and now the acquirer is maybe Horizon's biggest competitor - but it may also have other consequences as the biggest market for Hunkeler and probably Müller Martini, North America, have Standard Finishing as distributor for both Hunkeler and Horizon - can that continue? Or what will happen? All of these are speculations, and time will tell - but they are interesting - and an acquisition with further impact than most other M&As lately. Warm congratulations to Hunkeler and Müller Martini. Find the official press release below: Müller Martini and Hunkeler join forces for the future After careful consideration, the owner families have decided to merge the Hunkeler Group with the Müller Martini Group. Müller Martini Holding AG has acquired all of the shares of the Hunkeler Group. With this transaction, the Hunkeler family and Crédit Mutuel Equity have sold off all their shares to Müller Martini. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Hunkeler AG and Müller Martini AG are both global market leaders with innovative solutions for post-print paper processing. Both companies focus a significant part of their innovative strength on the economical production of individualized print products within an automated smart factory. Hunkeler and Müller Martini have been very close for many years. The long and successful history began during the 2nd World War, when Hans Müller worked for Hunkeler as a mechanical engineer before setting up his own business in 1946 and founding the company Hans Müller / Grapha. These good relations have been maintained for decades. The local proximity in the Zofingen region and the already existing and successful partnership in the machine and component business form an ideal starting point for even closer cooperation in the future. By joining forces, both companies see great opportunities to bundle their innovation activities and to serve their global customer base even better in the future through joint sales and service activities. The two owner families have therefore decided on this strategic transaction that led to the acquisition of Hunkeler AG by Müller Martini AG. Bruno Müller: "The graphic arts industry is constantly changing and regularly calls for new innovations. By combining the key components of the two companies, such as personnel, expertise and technology, we will be able to serve our global clientele even better with innovative solutions in the future." Stefan and Michel Hunkeler: "There is a long-standing partnership between Hunkeler and Müller Martini and a regular exchange. The opportunity for the merger is currently greatly beneficial for both partners and our joint customers, as it will result in considerable advantages in a combined enterprise. This is also a strong commitment for the Zofingen region."

Hunkeler can do “Books of 1”, so let's look at their new Book Sorting Module. Benjamin Locher, product manager, explains to us some of the important advantages of this particular module at the end of the impressive new Starbook plow folder line. As NEXT LEVEL AUTOMATION is the motto and dominant theme of the Hunkeler Innovationdays 2023, we see how they practice what they preach.

In the last episode, Pat McGrew fooled you a bit, right? But now you can see the second part of the Symeta unboxing episode where Pat McGrew shows you the level of personalization Symeta is offering. Discounts are one thing, but more important is it to show the combination of high print quality and the data-driven workflow that enables Symeta to deliver. We are happy with what we see. We should go to Symeta and make a film! Remember to Watch, Like, and Share.