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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?

Will Crabtree has been featured earlier on INKISH, and we are always happy to meet printers who experience growth. Not only has TampaPrinter.com expanded its premises, but the number of printing units, staff, and foot space have increased since we last met Will Crabtree and his team. What we like about this story is how online marketing and SoMe presence supports the printing industry. This should inspire all printers globally to use all kinds of media to grow your business. TampaPrinter and Will Crabtree is an amazing example of how growth is more a matter of will than anything else. See you sometime in the future.

In this INKISH #LearnWithUs webinar, we focus on tips & tricks for using films in your communication. INKISH, Head of Production, Žiga Kovač, gives you tips on how to use your SmartPhone for production. Ed Cornelissen hereafter talks about why he, as a printer, uses films to communicate and teach his audience. Finally, Editor Morten B. Reitoft shares the anatomy of storytelling - what to do and what not to do. See or see it again to learn!

Cissy Pettenon is the Digital Work Flow Deployment Manager at SPC and has been at eProductivity Software/EFI Connect before. In this short interview, she explains how SPC is a company embracing change and the value of meeting piers at eProductivity Software/EFI Connect.

Roy Everts and his company GLD Print en Media is located in Arnhem in the Netherlands - and yes, it is the renowned city from world war two - but being the center of GLD Print en Media is what this story is about! INKISH visited Roy Everts and his colleagues because GLD uses the Cloudprinter platform for orders - and in the film, you can hear Roy Everts saying up to a thousand orders a day. Cloudprinter is still a young company, but it is getting more and more recognized for its service and its innovative business model - but see and listen for yourself in this INKISH film. INKISH.NEWS article.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been a buzzword for some time, but lately, one company, OpenAI, has made AI something everybody talks about. Erik Fieten does not only talk about AI but uses OpenAI's visual engine DALL·E to generate art for his wall art production business. In this interview with Editor Morten B. Reitoft, he explains "ART" and how DALL·E can create license-free art that can be used in his new online ventures. WallVis is an online art shop; how simple it may sound is unique. With DALL·E, Erik Fieten and his colleagues can create unique art, and it's merely impossible to create two of the same pieces - even when using the same words - but see and hear for yourself. New opportunity, and Erik Fieten is, as far as we know, a first-mover in this field. Great!

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Your Print Sample TV host, Pat McGrew talks about associations - and for good reasons. All industries have different associations and in the printing industry, this is also the case. Not only do the associations offer various learning experiences, but events, trade shows, and also utilizing different print technologies and applications are part of the role. In this episode, Pat McGrew shows you samples from the Printing United 22 event. We will be there, will you?

In a geopolitical context, despite its size, China has never played much more than a regional role. Still, as China has become the second-largest economy in the world, it has a solid military position and an almost ongoing trade war with the US, so the role of China is changing. In the West, we can argue against trade with a country with limited human rights, freedom of speech, and many things we don't understand or want to accept. China has been able to create an economic miracle, take millions out of poverty, and become one of the leading suppliers of goods of all kinds to the rest of the world. In this 45-minute interview, Editor Morten B. Reitoft talks with David Gibbons, who, for more than 12 years, has learned about China, the country, and its population thinking; married Chinese living partly in China gives us an insight. You can agree or disagree with his viewpoints, and I do ask him if the Chinese way and the advantages he sees are worth considering trade-off - and, well, I think you might be surprised about his views of how China works. I am pleased with this interview, so I hope you will listen with an open mind, as that is what freedom of speech and democracy are all about - and the 'strange' thing is, of course, that I had to ask David Gibbons whether he is in Australia or China before sending a YouTube link - as YouTube isn't allowed in China - strange world - but the normal is maybe ALWAYS based on your view angle!

Print Sample TV has earlier shown print samples from the Belgian company Symeta and for good reasons. Getting a large box delivered at your doorstep, printed as an actual flight-case, and with such a cool design, you can't be anything but curious. Symeta is a highly specialized DM company so, of course, they can create a "must-open" experience, and we are, of course, happy to share this with you - so please enjoy!

INKISH is part of the unboxing event in Cambridge - the first time we heard about the SpeedSet 1060 was at ICE in Munich, then a new update at FEFCO in Lyon - and finally, we see the 'beast' in Cambridge. The SpeedSet 1060 is a B1 water-based single-pass inkjet machine made for the folding carton/packaging segment - and excels with high quality at speeds up to 11,000 sheets per hour. The Unboxing event was visited by a number of selected customers from Europe and the US, and here captured by INKISH filmer Jack Fisher. Enjoy - and check also all the interviews we have done.

Everything that can go digital will go digital - and in a presentation at the Unboxing event of the new AGFA SpeedSet 1060, Sean Smyth from Pira International explains the trends. Editor Morten B. Reitoft gets the opportunity to ask whether AGFA ticks all the boxes with their new press - so dig in and learn :-)

At the AGFA Unboxing event, we met Roy Oomen from Highcon - and as both Highcon and AGFA deliver solutions for digital packaging as such, not a huge surprise - A growing partnership is on its way, and Highcon even presented their finishing solutions to the audience - but listen to what Roy Oomen has to say in this interview Cambridge.

Rita Torfs is the Product Manager of the new AGFA SpeedSet 1060 inkjet machine, which just launched at the Unboxing SpeedSet 1060 event. In this interview, you'll get a chance to hear about the project and the effort that goes into developing products over the years. Super nice meeting Rita Torfs!

Mike Horsten is the Press & PR Manager for AGFA. He is ALSO very experienced and shares in this interview his views on the success the SpeedSet is expected to have. Enjoy!

Building a machine like the AGFA SpeedSet 1060 requires a lot of people - and here we got a chance to talk to Michael Prosser. In the interview, he explains his role and how the team works together.

Matt Brooks is the head of AGFA's Digital Packaging Solutions division, and for years, he and his team have been working on the SpeedSet 1060. An amazing technology. In this interview, you will get an overview of the development of the market, and in our Walkthrough, you will learn more about how the machine works and what makes it special - watch both of them!

Jeff Wettersten works as an analyst with Keypoint Intelligence and gave his analysis on the packaging market - and was very direct that the AGFA SpeedSet 1060 is nothing but a gamechanger about the market needs now, but even more important in the future - Speed, Quality, and no need for changeovers are important KPI's of the new machine - Editor Morten B. Reitoft got a chance to talk to him after his presentation!

Francesco Sorrentino sells AGFA solutions in the southern part of Italy with success. As we speak with him at the Unboxing event in Cambridge, he proudly shows two installations taking place as we speak. He is a strong believer in AGFA and expresses that the SpeedSet 1060 will be a super product to sell - also in Italy. Enjoy! LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-sorrentino-b4b75152/

Barry Joyce from Simpson Group decided to join the Unboxing event in Cambridge because the SpeedSet 1060 might be interesting for Simpson Group. However, the company currently works mostly in the Large Format segment - SpeedSet 1060 runs up to 2 mm thick material, but also down to very thin substrates, potentially enabling customers to produce a very broad range of applications. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoyce23/

Super interesting interview with Arnaud Calleja from AGFA. As you may recall, AGFA changed strategy a couple of years ago, sold off its offset division (now ECO3), and turned towards an entirely digital strategy - still combined with other business units within chemical, medical, radiology, green hydrogen, and other super interesting areas - in this interview with VP of Digital Printing Solutions Arnaud Calleja, Editor Morten B. Reitoft a chance to understand more about how AGFA is changing. We are sure you will like it :-)

An article published on INKISH.NEWS about an extended collaboration between Horizon International and Ultimate TechnoGraphics got our attention, and we reached out to both parties to hear more. Here is the first (of two) where CEO Julie Watson, Ultimate TechnoGraphics, explains that Horizon and Ultimate TechnoGraphics have worked together for a long time - and without saying anything specific, the new collaboration could mean tighter integration and new products released. We are excited, and though not specific - enjoy this interview with Julie Watson!

In French with English subtitles. From several hours to sometimes a few minutes. It is 2023, but large PDF files received by some mailing or VDP (variable data printing) customers often still show anomalies in the weight of metadata, irrelevant to printing. So what to do? Do we wait or find other solutions to speed up the process? Julie tells us more. Enjoy! De plusieurs heures à parfois quelques minutes. On est bien 2023 mais de grands fichiers PDF reçu par certains clients du mailing ou du VDP (variable data printing) montrent souvent encore des anomalies au niveau du poids des données méta, irrelevant à l'impression. Alors que faire ? On attend, ou on trouve d'autres solutions pour accélérer les processus? Julie nous en dit plus. Enjoy!