Print Business AI: Beyond the Hype
An interview with Toby Saalfeld, Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing Business Partner at Ricoh North America
automated print workflows
Agfa Shows Range of Print Technologies at 2025 PRINTING United Expo
Over the past 25 years, wide-format printing equipment has become wider, sturdier, faster, more versatile, more automated and capable of using specialty inks on specific materials. These advances have laid the groundwork for building custom digital printing systems for industrial manufacturing. The evolution of Agfa’s wide-format printing technology is a good example. Since Agfa announced their Anapurna 100 UV inkjet …
Significans to Participate in AI Pavilion at the PRINTING United Expo
At the Printing AI Pavilion at 2025 PRINTING United Expo, visitors can learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is radically transforming the printing and packaging industries. Until AI technology is widely used by all, experts believe AI offers print-service providers a massive competitive advantage. AI Pavilion visitors will see AI applications (including the latest solutions from pioneering exhibitors), hear expert-led panel …
Durst Group Introduces Open Software Initiative and Smart Factory Portfolio
Quocirca print-business analysts predict “The future of the print industry is not about a single device, but about an intelligent, integrated, and purpose-driven ecosystem that is secure, data-driven, sustainable, and adaptive.” But achieving a secure, adaptive, sustainable ecosystem for printing businesses can be difficult. Over the years, print-service providers have adopted various estimating, inventory management, and job-onboarding tools that may …
Adobe PDF Print Engine 7 Automates Prepress Tasks within the RIP
At FESPA Global Print Expo 2025 Adobe announced version 7 of Adobe PDF Print Engine. Thirty years after the dawn of the PDF era, Adobe’s remains committed to bringing advances in imaging science to commercial printers, packaging converters, and manufacturers worldwide. Adobe PDF Print Engine version 7 reduces manual interactions and supports faster, more automated production by combining challenging prepress …
S-Launch Software Standardizes Order Data for Automated Print Workflows
Significans Automation, a leader in customized workflow automation and integration solutions, has unveiled S-Launch software. This user-friendly, fully customizable “Form Builder” can help print businesses standardize incoming order data so it can automatically trigger the next critical step in a workflow. Described as “the ultimate submission portal to get data into your print business,” the S-Launch Form Builder allows businesses …
Print Workflow Automation: Q&A with President of Significans Automation
For the March issue of the PRINTING United Journal, I interviewed multiple experts for an article about the value of integrated automated workflows for printing businesses. One expert interviewed was Marc Raad, President and CEO of Significans Automation. Because there wasn’t room in the article for all of the insights he provided, I am publishing the interview as a Q&A …
End-to-End Printing Workflows for Users of Offset, Flexo, and Digital Presses
In 2024, ECO3 and eProductivity Software (ePS) began collaborating to develop custom end-to-end integrated printing workflows for the many printing and packaging businesses that use a mix of offset, flexo, hybrid, and digital presses. The integrated workflows can shorten deadlines, reduce errors, and optimize production choices in enterprises use offset and/or flexo presses for high-volume jobs along with digital presses …
How a Long-Time Book Publisher Retooled Its Business to Handle Orders from Ten to Millions of Copies
By Eileen Fritsch The digital transformation of printing that began in the late 1990s didn’t really take off until the Great Recession of 2008-2009 forced publishers and distributors of printed books. newspapers, and magazines to cut costs by publishing more of their content online or in e-books. One company that has successfully adapted to the dramatic drop in demand for …
12 Common Obstacles to Print-Workflow Automation
Improving automation is critical to the profitability of modern print-service providers. But automating workflows doesn’t happen overnight. It requires an ongoing effort to integrate the software for use with a mix of old and new equipment old and continuously update variations in job costs and pricing. It often also requires adjusting some traditional practices and employee attitudes. In an education …