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Three print shops are turning a loose "we know each other" into a proper company. That's not a story for the personnel notices column. That's one for the survival column. The most dangerous word in the print industry isn't "digitalisation," isn't "skills shortage," and it isn't even "Onlineprinter." It's "cooperation." For twenty years, this word has been hiding letters of intent without intent, partnerships without contracts, and networks that fall apart at the first price war like a wet cardboard box. →

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Monday: AI saves small and mid-sized businesses. Tuesday: AI agents break out of a test lab and hack a platform. Wednesday: the head of an AI company calls for his own industry to slow down. Thursday: a vendor calls and, remarkably, happens to have exactly the AI solution in his briefcase that he brought along. Friday: the press is running.→

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After its debut in November 2025, dpsuisse is following up. On 30 and 31 October 2026, the ThinkTank by dpsuisse meets again at the Riverside in Zweidlen-Glattfelden, this time with a single question: what happens when print jobs are no longer placed by humans, but by AI agents acting on customers' behalf? The testing happens on each company's own business, in real time. I'm co-moderating, so I'm not neutral here — I'll say that up front.→

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In early May, the Scandinavian Print Group took over the Limberg Group — several print shops in the Cologne area, with the parent company even coming out of insolvency proceedings. There was no press release from Onlineprinters about it. Yet the Scandinavian Print Group has belonged to the group since 2017, and the acquisition is even mentioned in the half-year report. Just without a name. A look at a consolidation that's deliberately running quiet.→

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ChatGPT could already generate images before. What's new is what Adobe has been providing to probably the most famous AI chatbot for a few weeks now: a plugin that brings together more than 70 tools from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and five other applications. With it, users are meant to be able to edit existing files, access Creative Cloud assets and turn data into formatted PDFs, such as infographics. Within the chat, the plugin is meant to produce not just an image any more, but a production file.→

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There's a certain irony to this story. Johannes Gutenberg used his press to print not only Bibles but also letters of indulgence, physical certificates confirming that someone had eased their conscience financially. Around 570 years later, the European Union is putting an end to exactly this kind of "business model". And once again, the printing industry finds itself right in the middle of it — this time, however, on the customer side.→

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Anyone who wants to find out what Agentic Print can do for their company will have three opportunities to do so this fall in 2026. That’s because dpsuisse, VDM Bayern, and the Verband Druck | Medien in Austria, in collaboration with Bernd Zipper, are hosting the “Online Print Excellence” masterclass—with a focus on Agentic Print—on September 22 in Aarau (CH), on October 29 in Vienna (A) and on November 5 in Verlburg near Nuremberg. If you’d like to attend, be sure to register soon, as space is limited.→

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Adobe has Zazzle. Canva now has Cimpress. What looks at first glance like two similar deals turns out to be two very different bets on the future of the printing industry. And both land in the same place: print is becoming the automated back end of a communications infrastructure that starts digital and ends physical. Welcome to the age of Agentic Print.→

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The printing industry has been declared dead so many times that it doesn’t even bat an eye at the word “disruption” anymore. It has seen buzzwords come and go like a commuter sees trains. That’s exactly why this article doesn’t start with a revolution, but with a schedule: fourteen trends that have been around for years, each with its own momentum, its own pace, and its own passengers. And very few of them even thought about printing for a single second when they set out.→

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