Integration rarely follows a straight line from disconnected systems to a perfectly automated operation. In the final conversation of Dscoop’s Integration Series, Kyle Pendley of Arizona State University, Erwin Driever of Cober Solutions, and Jay Harris and Jesse Brooks of Peczuh Printing compare what they’ve learned from connecting systems, responding to customers, moving bottlenecks, and building teams capable of keeping everything working.

This special presentation from Edge Slovenia is all about taking risks and following your passions. After years of building equipment, expertise, technology, and infrastructure to help other brands succeed, Rootree’s Phil St.Cyr began wondering what else those capabilities could create. A family project involving personalized basketballs offers a compelling example of printers using what they already know to generate demand of their own.

University students from Slovenia and Croatia offer a revealing look at how the next generation discovers print, learns the craft, and imagines its future. Their conversation points toward something the industry can influence right now: Give young people meaningful hands-on experience, let them make mistakes, and show them how much creativity and technology modern print actually contains.