Mark Andy presents three machines at LabelExpo Europe 2023, and who better to present the machines than Phil Baldwin, European Sales Manager for Mark Andy. You will learn about the technology as we walk through the booth, so stay tuned!

It's not every time you get a walkthrough by a board member and VP from KURZ - but ladies and gentlemen - here it is :-) Markus Hoffmann knows his business and gives you a tour through all the business areas KURZ covers - super interesting. Enjoy!  

In this walkthrough, Richard Neeft from Komori gives Editor Morten B. Reitoft updates about the new G37 - including some basic learning (always good to be updated) and information about how it is to operate Komori. Enjoy!

In this almost 30-minute long walkthrough of the new AGFA SpeedSet 1060, you will learn a lot. According to specialists like Sean Smyth and Jeff Wettersten, it is super interesting technology and a machine that will be a game-changer in the digital packaging industry! Enjoy the walkthrough with Matt Brooks from AGFA and Editor Morten B. Reitoft.

This walkthrough gives an early view of the new Xeikon Idera, a digital corrugated cardboard printing machine. Daniel Velema is the VP of Corrugated & Solution Services at Xeikon. He is responsible for developing the Idera, so who better to ask about the ideas developed into what is among the first presentations to the public. Enjoy the walkthrough :-)

Converting, inserting, trans promo, mailings & more are returning to professional players who invest in the latest technologies rather than end users supporting themselves. Higher output and more efficient machines with higher reliability result in higher quantities on the belt. So running speeds of up to 20k /h matter, and a precise and reliable output at the end of the lines is critical. Good talk with Thorsten Jost, the Director of Sales Mail Solutions, Winkler + Dünnebier (W+D).

Steffen Franzisi is the CEO of Kohlhammer Druck in Germany, and this is his first visit to Innovationdays. He is very impressed with the event, mainly how automated the post-press/binding is becoming.

VR Print operates its business from Durban, South Africa, and visiting the company was an inspiring experience. Today the company, managed and owned by CEO Hilton Janse van Rensburg, is an all-digital printing company. However, in February, VR Print will receive its first Nilpeter FA-Line machine. Normally INKISH visits printing companies with new equipment already installed. In this video, we talk to Hilton about the market, the expectations, and what made the company choose to add Flexo capabilities to its production. Enjoy!

Route 1 print is an amazing printing company based in the UK. In this film, Sarah Kilcoyne-Guilliam explains what they do and, in particular to how they work and use Coreprint from Vpress. The film was shown during our Learn With Us – inkjet event.

At EFI Connect 2022, we did two films with Vice President of Marketing Rick Salinas from Duplo USA. Both are to be found on INKISH, of course. This film demonstrates two cutting solutions that Duplo USA presented - exciting, and as always, great to learn!

Editor Morten B. Reitoft has enjoyed talking to Volker Selg many times. This time, we discuss what Dr. Hoenle offers in hot air, IR, conventional UV, and LED UV. As always, it's super interesting!

Interview with Hönle about the necessity of having quality lamps but also reliable quality measurements when using UV curing and drying, particularly when you want to secure the quality output of digital and conventional printed products. Good overview and introduction to this german based company that has been in the business for many decades.

Though Hunkeler Innovationdays only starts tomorrow, Monday, February 24th, INKISH has already intensively covered it. Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to film some of the major OEMs to give you more information and a bit of behind-the-scenes footage from some of the exhibitors. Here, we have Volker Leonhardt from Müller Martini. There is an impressive booth with three application lines. The first we discuss is a roll-fed saddle stitch line that combines Hunkeler, Stahl, and Müller Martini to make saddle-stitched products at high speed, with variable page count and finished format. The second and third lines end with a sorting line, so the books made on the Heidelberg Jetfire 50 don't end up in the same pile as those made on the HP Advantage 2200. From both printing devices, the paper is processed with the Hunkeler Plowfolder solution that folds and stacks the paper into book blocks that are then transported into Müller Martini perfect binders. Both lines combine their output to the trimmer - and voila - a line for web-fed and sheet-fed solutions is presented. Quite nice :-)

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/volker-leonhardt-5b887419/

In days were data are essential, SpencerMetrics is the company that delivers beyond - and in this interview with Pat McGrew, you get further inside in what their solution can do. Enjoy!

Virgilio Micale, global sales director at Cartes, discusses the company's conventional and digital converting technology on display at Labelexpo Americas 2024 and the increasing demand for high-end embellishments. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virgilio-antonio-micale-3b1591143/

It’s my team that is working. And we allocate project managers, teams to plan, execute and deliver projects in a timely and streamlined fashion. So, there is there is Diana there. Leonardo there. And I like Diego Maradona. And that is a Godfather picture. So, these are the people I like most in my life. Communication is the key for delivering any software. Say if I talk about North India, definitely it is a bit, you know, harder recruiting new guys in Punjab. Punjab based company. But some developers, they want to stay in their cities. So, and we also want to develop a company in our state only. So, the developers don't have to go to other states. Apart from working from our office, we all settle at our places, at our homes. But we have different kind of project management tools, communication tools. So that all made things easy for us. We went to a trip recently. We spent a whole year at home and we all wanted to have a break. We opted for a hill station where we stayed in Riverside camps for a couple of days. And we did yoga, meditation and enjoyed a bonfire. And the other picture. There we are all dancing, and it is from 13 April. I told the team: let's do some meditation also. We were on a very beautiful view. So yeah. So, I thought let’s do a meditation for 15 minutes. There is a thing in India. Like we have around 85 percent of the people in India are living below the poverty line. Some traditional Punjabi dance, the Folk dance, the Bhangra dance. They have a very different clothing for this. On that day there was a Navratri festival also. That marks the beginning of a new year in India. I am CEO of My Virtual Teams. I founded this organization in 2010. We are a family of fifty plus professionals. Fast Forward

Victor Naumann works with the customer life cycle, essentially everything from service to fully managed plants. It was a super interesting conversation, and amazing that being a world leader allows you to deliver service levels - on, well, all levels :-)

Vanguard’s CEO Dave Cich is a true leader. In this INKISH CONVERSATION Dave describes how he builds his teams and describes his plans for a global sales force. With the acquisition by Durst, Dave explains how their global reach will empower this effort. We also see a very human side to what comprises a leader. LinkedIn Profile

Interviewed by Poligrafika, Aneta Łukaszewska Produced by INKISH LinkedIn Profile Vanessa Urbanek: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-urbanek-9066562b3/

This is interesting. If you think UV is UV, think again. In this interview, IST Metz's Volker Selg explains the various types of curing technologies the company has specialized in, from Mercury UV and LED-UV to Excimer, which enable UV to be used for matt surfaces. IST Metz develops and builds everything in-house, which enables flexible products produced on demand for its customers globally.

In the suburbs of Indianapolis, we met with Kevin Bennet from EZ Mailing. EZ mailing is a company focused mainly on political campaigns - a type of company you mainly see in the US. When you come to EZ Mailing, all the walls are covered with slogans and banners from all types of political campaigns. Slogans from elections of mayors and house members to school elections and election of the head of a fire brigade. The diversity is vast, and so is the production, which has both offset, digital, binding equipment, inkjet devices for addressing, a huge paper warehouse, and what drove us to EZ Mailing, an RMGT Series 9 offset printing press. Besides the current machine EZ Mailing has, the company has already ordered its first 9-series perfector press to support the Bennet experience growth. He is even foreseeing growth that could lead to yet a perfector press. Who says print is dying?