It's not enough to talk about sustainability. It may not be enough to focus entirely on waste reduction and energy consumption. The entire industry must agree on the measures and objectives, and the brand owners must work actively to take advantage of the more sustainable solutions. A super exciting conversation with Francois Martin and Carlos Lahoz Buch. Dig in - and commit!

Dreyer Kliché produces hot stamping tools for the printing industry (hint for fine packaging, books, paper bags, wine labels, etc.). Being recognized as one of the world's best tool-maker, of course, makes us particularly interested in talking to the CEO Conni Dreyer when we met her at Scanpack in Gothenburg. With a theme build around Hans Christian Andersen's Tinder-Box fairytale, the stage is set and by showcasing the fantastic result of fantastic tools customers are invited to see for themselves what's possible. Quite amazing. Take a look at the interview and if you are interested, we have also made some films that showcase the process from idea to final​ result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx24s37F9ZM

If you have followed INKISH during Drupa, you know we have reported quite a lot from Fujifilm. The company excels in several product categories, and in this interview with Takefumi Horiguchi, we dig into the understanding of Fujifilm's workflow/software portfolio. Fujifilm is as ambitious in software as with every other segment it operates in, so keep an eye on its software portfolio. Also, off-camera has exciting things in development!  

Screen Europe is, by many, a valued OEM for inkjet printers within both Commercial Print and Labels. At The Horizon Finishing First event, we talked to Marketing Director Taishi Motoshige, Screen Europe. A very nice guy, but also with a clear vision of becoming the number one in selling inkjet presses. According to Motoshige, Screen's legacy is a great asset when developing solutions for the company's customers. But listen and enjoy yourself!

Belgium based Symeta is frequently featured on Print Sample TV, and in this episode, Pat McGrew shows examples of their great innovation. Personalized table cloth - or even more exciting, what about personalized kids summer camp magazines or Symeta's personalized newspaper. Limitless opportunities, but always driven by your organization. Find inspiration on Print Sample TV, but develop original content that will drive your sales! Watch it now!

Three years ago, my now husband and I, we traveled the West Coast of America. Driving with our tiny trailer behind a Honda. We slept in Pismo Beach on a Wal-Mart parking lot. And next morning an old veteran. He came by and he was like: It is so cool what you're doing. And I want to support you. Take these 40 bucks and he was like: have a nice lunch. That is one print that stays with us for forever. I got so interested in the printing industry, not only because of you. I worked for Gelato. It is so interesting to listen to all those people all the time. I is inspiring. It doesn't feel like work. That is from a trade show I went to last February in Nürnberg. And that was like the beginnings of the Corona pandemic. For Gelato - I was planning those trade shows. And also going there as a sales person. And I went there and it was just so sad. People really miss that togetherness. Coming to those trade shows...it's like meeting your family members. I really like the trade shows online also. Focused on what you actually want to get achieved. And I think you can plan better ahead who you want to meet. I'm also selling wall clocks. Like designer wall clocks. That was very, very hard during Corona. Since all the businesses were closed. I was desperately trying to look for ways to reach people. And I wrote a nice postcard. And I got good feedback for that. I wanted to show with that picture that print really helped me in other jobs also. I feel more connected when I actually have something in my hand. Rather than only looking at it. I sent that one to show that print is also becoming a primary thing in my personal life. My husband was stuck in Germany. Because his American was not able to work, couldn't show our daughter to his family for a year. So he started an illustration course and actually that is the first print that he sold. So I'm very proud of that. And I just wanted to share that.

SwissQprint France has a superb stand which attracts a lot of attention. They have teamed up with a street art artist to highlight the strong proposition and the quality they can produce. Alain Grenier, their France sales manager, tells us more. —- SwissQprint France dispose d'un superbe stand qui attire beaucoup d'attention. Ils se sont associés à un artiste de street art pour mettre en avant la proposition forte et la qualité qu'ils peuvent produire. Alain Grenier, leur responsable commercial France, nous en dit plus.

Every day at 13:00, the Horizon Finishing First event hosts a panel debate, and our editor, Morten B. Reitoft, has been asked to host and moderate these sessions. The first was planned to be with a person that had to cancel shortly before the event. Fortunately, Sven Binder was on site and accepted the invitation to step in at the very last minute.

Sven Binder was featured in a film INKISH did from the Germany photobook/greeting card printer Send Moments. See the link below. Binder is hooked on data-driven productions and advocates using XML data rather than the workarounds like JDF. With structured data, you have all the needed data to produce automated, and with books of one and touch-free production in both print and binding, it's necessary. Interesting conversations! Sven Binder recently stopped working with Send Moments, so we took the liberty to 'title' him "Digital Nomad." https://inkish.tv/inkish-video/sendmoments/

IGAS is the largest print exhibition in Japan, and Horizon, the largest exhibitor, demonstrates 21 end-to-end solutions. In this presentation, Keisuke Nakai talks about a solution that consists of a feeder, a rotary die-cutter, a spot gluer (addition), and a pocket folder - and voila, a document pocket solution is now available - and of course, still with the flexibility of using the solution for more applications. Great technology view, and with this option, customers can demand more sustainable solutions for document folders rather than using PVC or plastic.

Lemorau, a family-owned company, develops and manufactures finishing equipment for the worldwide label industry. Jacques Michiels got the opportunity to talk to Susanna Teixera and learn more about their heritage and how they came to grow and now are exporting to 77 countries across the 5 continents. A lively encounter with an enthusiastic player in the label converting manufacturing space.

Worth mentioning when reporting from PRINTING United is, of course, the overwhelming number of attendees. Also worth mentioning is the many awards given to products and technologies. One of the awarded products was Ricoh's Supervisor/Process Director software, enabling printing companies to monitor their entire production with a click of a button. Adding devices is easily done by entering the device's IP address; voila, you are connected. Process Director takes this further, as Kevin Wake explains and shows. With Process Director, the data can be organized into logical groups, so production is now filtered into data per employee, per production unit, per machine, and almost everything. Nice product, and though developed by Ricoh entirely vendor agnostic.

In this edition of Print Sample TV, host Pat McGrew takes you to the PRINTING United show floor and visits Koenig & Bauer. In a chat with Chris Travis, we get to see how extremely small 'dots' can increase the color gamut, how to use an offset machine to create great print effects, and yes - as usual, Pat McGrew and Chris Travis show the great print samples as inspiration for the rest of us - enjoy the episode.

It doesn't happen SO often that INKISH makes films in our backyard, but it's so nice when it happens. The first INKISH film was ALSO from Lasertryk in Denmark, but many things have changed. Back then, Xerox iGens were the workhorses of the time - now you see HP Indigo, the Canon iX3200, and, of course, the two Heidelberg XL106 - and a tonne of binding and finishing equipment. In this film, Production Manager Morten Jespersen explains how the IX3200 fits into the production and when they choose to work with either of the technologies available. Great to be back, and it is always fun to see how companies develop with a combination of focused people and the right investments! Here you can see the first INKISH film ever - also from Lasertryk :-)

In this interview, the Director of Marketing, North America, Donna Covannon, shared the history of Xeikon, and yes, Xeikon was the first commercially available digital color press. We get to hear about why Xeikon is an excellent partner for PSPs and converters and get to see some great print samples as well. Super friendly meeting Donna Covannon again - we hope you like the film!

Imagine serving millions of people yearly. Imagine consolidating numerous printing entities across a state and developing a print service provider printing more than 140,000,000 pages annually. Going from fast photocopiers to an up-to-minute modern print facility using Ricoh Inkjet, binding equipment from Tecnau, and all tight together using Solimar software - but more importantly, brilliant people like Mike Lincoln and Gilbert Gomez. Meet them in our film from Colorado State.

Inland Packaging in La Crosse in Wisconsin, USA is an amazing packing printing company that has grown over the past years. Part of the success is due to the company's investment in Tilia Labs Phoenix. As Business Analyst & Programmer Willie Spindler explains in this film, the time reduced on setup is maybe more than 50%. When we made the film Phoenix was mainly used for the offset presses in La Crosse (6 Heidelberg XL-machines), but Inland Packaging is soon going to use Phoenix also for their digital presses as well as their flexo-machines. Visiting printing companies like Inland Packaging is always great but being in La Crosse and see a company working with so many different types of labels and with so many brands shows the diversity of software like Tilia Labs Phoenix and the efficiency you can achieve using brilliant software. As usual - Watch, Like, and share!

A webinar just a few days ago said that Label Converters see up to 80% of their production being re-orders. With Labelhub, most of these orders can be 100% automated and managed by the customers freeing up capacity, enabling faster turnaround, and by all means, helping Converters. Labelhub offers their customers the option to create customer portals integrated into the Converters MIS systems. Updated designs can, with drag'n'drop, be easily replaced, proofed, stepped, and sent directly to the printing machine, including laser dies, production data, etc. Labelhub seems to be a super interesting tool, and as we speak with the founder and CEO, Peter Vogt, we learn that Labelhub is an add-on to existing MIS systems. Still, by building up the customer portals in Labelhub, you essentially make it easier for yourself if you, at some point, decide to change MIS/ERP system.

COO Courtney Sumners of Benson Integrated Marketing Solutions speaks with Robert Godwin about how her company utilizes a range of eProductivity Software solutions in their offerings to their customers. Enjoy!

At PRINTING United 2019 INKISH broadcasted LIVE from various booths Friday 25th. It's always a challenge, but likely more a problem to be so successful that all leaflets and marketing materials were gone. We got a chance to talk to CEO Michał Czaicki from Printbox from the booth and here is the interview from what seems to be both a successful company appreciating a very successful tradeshow. Enjoy.

Tom Fitzgerald is responsible for Post Press Products for Koenig & Bauer North America, and for him and his company, PRINTING United has been very successful. In the interview, Fitzgerald can't hide his appreciation of the sales achieved - and as with the rest of the Koenig & Bauer team, everything seems to move up and forward. Good work, guys!

The Fujifilm event Peak Performance Print Experience was held in Brussels on September 28th and 29th, 2021. It was a great event with many people, really good print samples, and an insight into where Fujifilm sees their technology. Here we speak to Taro Aoki, who is the head of Fujifilm digital press solutions. The new Revoria brand was also demonstrated on the first day, but only to customers in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal - since Revoria is only available here now. The event gave the audience an insight into the technology, like the new Jet Press 750s with faster print speed, still fantastic quality, and a few other great and exciting upgrades. LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taro-aoki-4aa00b9/

ePac is, by far, one of the most recognized companies in the printing industry these days. With digital production of roll/pouches, the company has got attention from brand-owners of all sizes. Small print-run, fast turn-around time, stunning quality, and well - as MD Johnny Hobeika explains, in this interview, competitive prices, when everything from time, to obsolete stock, is taken into considerations. Great interview. Great company!

Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO of Bobst Group SA, shares his views and strategies with Jacques Michiels our CEO of INKISH Benelux. In this truly open and revealing conversation, Jacques Michiels gets the answers to his most pressing and sometimes quite personal questions. This year, BOBST celebrates its 130th anniversary – proof of their resilience, competences and success in long-lasting value creation. Jean-Pascal Bobst talks about how they can futureproof the business of their customers as well as their own. BOBST has a presence in more than 50 countries, runs 15 production facilities in8 countries and employs more than 5500 people around the world. So, as a leading technology company in the packaging world, Bobst is greatly responsible for shaping this part of the industry and Jacques Michiels asks about new product developments, innovation, the people, sustainability and the challenges Bobst is facing in the next 3 years. Jean-Pascal Bobst unveils that they build new substrate processing technologies to increase sustainability along with innovating in digital printing with their Mouvent ink-jet technology, this as well as a stand-alone Label printing technology, but also integrated into the UV flexo “hybrid” printing machines turning in Beta as we speak.