Printers face rising costs, labor shortages, and growing demands for faster turnaround. Francis McMahon and Tonya Powers explain how Tecnau and Sitma help automate the workflow from printed output through finishing, packaging, and distribution, while partnering with HP and others to keep production moving, and what they expect from every company joining the Dscoop community.

Twenty-two years ago, Jos Kabouw sat in a training session in Chile learning about digital prepress workflows from a young Peter Christiansen. Neither of them worked at GM at the time. Both were deeply involved in digital prepress and excited about where digital printing was heading.

For more than twenty years, XMPie has helped printers combine data, design and business logic into communication across print, web and email. In a Dscoop Connect & Activate session, David Baldaro explained why relevancy matters more than personalization, and why the answer to a customer’s problem is rarely one company’s product alone.

Harris & Bruno builds every part of what it sells — the coating heads, the rolls, the chambers, and the fluids that run through them. Paul Furse and Juan Soto explain why that in-house range across mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and coating chemistry is the real differentiator, and what it means for the partners who work alongside them.