Conversations keep being one of our most popular formats on INKISH. In these interviews, you get to know the human behind the company - what drives them as individuals, values, and careers, and what we like about the format is that the relaxed atmosphere alone brings the message forward. In this Conversations, we talk to Christian Metz, the third Metz generation owner of the successful group of IST companies.

Christian Menegon, HP Indigo’s global business development manager who joined Indigo in 1995, has been at the forefront of digital technology’s evolution in the label industry for nearly three decades. He discusses HP Indigo’s new V12 and 200K presses.

Sometimes - or actually mostly - what you print and what you fold need to be 100% correct, and with Kaiser Vision on your folding line, you can verify and set actions accordingly. Here the CEO of Kaiser Vision explains how the camera inspection system works on a Horizon bucket folder, typically used for pharmaceutical inlays.

At the Seiko Open Week 2022, Christian Goebel built a test printer to show how Seiko printheads can be used to print in all directions - from the side, from the top, and even from the bottom - quite amazing. ideeGO has among other things build machines that print on all the sides of plastic boxes, to support a comprehensive logistics solution. Jetting from the distance is also one of the things the Seiko printheads are capable of, which you can see in the video jetting on uneven surfaces. Learn!

Christian Engel is the CEO of BHS Corrugated. Together the two brothers have developed BHS Corrugated into a global company. In the 'Conversations' with Engel, we get a behind the scene view of the history, the values, and what drives Christan Engel in his leadership.

German with English Subtitles. The organization Komori is expanding its local presence in Europe and beyond. This a courageous strategy that needs great people on site and, in the case of Germany, also includes a new competence center. In this short interview, our editor Jacques Michiels asks Mr. Baumann - to the point - how he and his organization view this new approach and the expanded collaboration with Komori. -- Die Organisation Komori erweitert ihre lokale Präsenz in Europa und darüber hinaus. Eine mutige Strategie, die tolle Leute vor Ort braucht und im Falle Deutschlands auch ein neues Kompetenzzentrum beinhaltet. In diesem kurzen Interview fragt unser Redakteur Jacques Michiels Herrn Baumann - to the point - wie er und seine Organisation diesen neuen Ansatz und die erweiterte Zusammenarbeit mit Komori sehen.

Chris Schowalter worked for EFI/Fiery for 13 years, so it wasn't easy for him to change position - but now it was time. And here you can hear about some of his considerations - super nice interview, but recorded on his second day at DURST - so bare with both of us :-)

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He has a nose for business. He sees opportunities. He knows his products. He cares about his customers - they are referred to almost like family members. He strongly believes in offset and is the only one constantly bringing machines to tradeshows whenever possible. He has a strong respect for his father, who passed away years ago. His father gave Manley an opportunity and another direction of life that was initially planned. Manley is the distributor of RMGT and other products. This story is about Chris Manley and GraphCo - great story!  

President Chris Manley explains why he’s SO excited about Graphco’s one-year-old distribution partnership with SD Italy for its cutting/plotting technology. It’s all about communication, Manley says.

RMGT is a success in North America, and Graphco has a huge share in the success. CEO and owner Chris Manley explains why and how - also positioning in an American context - super great interview by INKISH member Mark Vruno. Great work!

In this film, we visit 'Executive Mailing Service,' or, in short, EMS in the Chicago area, and this is a great experience for many reasons. The company specializes in mailing, and when you enter the facility, you see mailboxes as long as you can see - it's quite a large operation. Though you see many machines everywhere, you also realize the number of people working. In the print room, you have a combination of toner-based printers and the newer MCS Inkjet machines - and in the film, we learn how more efficient the MCS Inkjet machines are - and why EMS is replacing the toners one by one. During the visit, you easily understand how great the collaboration is between EMS as a customer and MCS as a supplier - and as this is our first filming with MCS, we are also learning quite a lot. MCS has an intense focus on mailing, and when we later visited their Chicago-based operation, we got a walkthrough that you can see here: https://inkish.tv/inkish-video/mcs/ - it was a great day, and great meeting dedicated people from both sides of the production!

Chris Knighton is the PSP Global Head of Sales at HP Solutions, and that is actually a role that is relatively new to him. Together with a business partner Chris Knighton ran his own company from 2013 where the vision was to create a software solution that would enable global brands to connect to their PSP's wherever located. More than 600 companies and global brands have already taken this path, and recently HP acquired the company and merged it into the software solutions already known. Great story and great to understand what HP Site Flow is capable of plus great to hear what the visions have been throughout the years. As with all our 'Over the Skype' interviews, quality is limited to bandwidth, web-cams, and ability to literally LIVE mix the conversations. However, it works, and with Over the Skype, we will bring you more than 20 exciting people, and angles on the industry as it is right now. Enjoy!   For further information - please reach out to GSBsolutions@hp.com

SiteFlow is nothing but an amazing workflow solution. Though delivered by HP, the software is Vendor Agnostic, as PSP Global Head of Sales and Business Development, Chris Knighton, explains in this 'Learn with Us' session. Amazing software, and presented as a role-play between HP and a printing company. Looks really cool!

Chris Harrington shows a couple of new products delivered by Canadian-based Graphic Whizard. Dig in :-)

Always great starting an interview with good news, and having sold 200 machines to one customer must be a fantastic experience. Chris Harrington from Canadian-based Graphic Whizard can't hide how happy and proud he is, but not being able to talk about the customer is, of course, a bummer :-) In this interview, we look at the machine they sold - able to slit, crease, cut, and perforate in a very compact and automated way. In the film, Chris Harrington shows you some of the features. Enjoy!

A laminator debut and two laminator workhorses on display with Graphic Whizard - and, as usual, a Chris Harrington that presents the machines, so we easily understand the differences. It was first later the same day that I realized that Harrington started many years ago as a technician and, therefore, has the same passion for diving deep into his and competitors' products. As usual, filming with Chris Harrington, and the Micro (new) and the two other laminators seem to be a good fit for many, so check them out - here on INKISH.

Growth is given at Fotofabriek in the northern Netherlands, and with an increased order intake, technology needs to adapt. Chris De Jonge was featured on INKISH a year ago, and with more than 15,000 daily orders, Fotofabriek is very happy with Ultimate Tech. Chris De Jonge explains how Impostrip, Bindery, and the dynamic scaling of the solutions help them achieve growth :-) Enjoy!  

Understanding the go-to-market approach by vendors may make it easier for most to understand the value proposition. In this interview, Global VP Sales and Alliances, Fabian Prudhomme explains how CHILI address future prospects. Actually quite interesting, and the amazing part is the vast value that CHILI-Publish apparently gives the customers who understand it. Remember to watch the two demos.

Kevin Goeminne is the CEO of CHILI publish and in this film from SPICYtalks 19 in Berlin he expresses his happiness over his team and the achievements his team has done. CHILI publish is successful and more and more customers are using the software to create, not only print campaigns, but also online campaigns. At SPICYtalks CHILI publish used CHILI Publisher to generate hundreds of individual banners that were targeted users online. Kevin Goeminne, as usual, deliver both as CEO and as host in Berlin. Enjoy.

CHILI publish CTO Ward De Langhe was VERY busy during the SPICYtalks event in Berlin. Most can probably understand what a great opportunity it is for partners and customers to get a chance to talk with the CTO of a company that develops software all are relying on? We do at least. Ward De Langhe explains, in this interview, that at the beginning of 2019, a lot of changes was developed. However, most changes were not so visual since it was part of an updated backbone of CHILI Publisher. In the past three months, however, every new release has delivered significant new features - and of course, version 6.0 is a major update. Enjoy the opportunity to listen to Ward De Langhe right here on INKISH.TV

At the recent SPICY Talks in Amsterdam Don Schminkey from Channel-Fusion was one of the participants. We got the chance to talk to him, and as a relatively new client with CHILI Publish he explains how great the software has been for Channel-Fusion and their customers.

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has chosen to use CHILI Publisher as part of their delivery of brand consistent marketing. At SPICYtalks 19 in Berlin Digital Project Manager Thomas Julé from Airbus gave a quite impressive presentation of what they are doing. It was also very nice to experience the openness of Airbus and how they show the application. Great design, great implementation, and here you can hear and see for yourself some of the motivations for working with CHILI.