In a podcast called “Farbspiel” which is all about design and beauty, print should not be missing. Obviously. Bernd Zipper spoke with host Dominik Hoffmann about the role of print as a cultural asset, how print enables new products, and why automation, high speeds and a high level of professionalism are needed to ensure that print can survive in the media canon of the future.
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There are many, many suppliers of posters and decorative murals. To be successful in this “Red Ocean” despite all the competition, you need a clear focus. Together with his wife Anna and his brother Marc, René Ruhland has built up the myposter Group, which this year will be scratching the 100-million-euro sales mark.
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Sound-absorbing pictures made from recycled jeans, “Probots” in production and a subscription system for reusable materials: at the large format specialist Probo in Dokkum, the Netherlands, innovation is not just an empty word but a day-to-day reality. In the latest episode of Zipper’s Insights, Managing Director René de Heij revealed what exactly that means.
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Print buyers know the procedure: Specify requirements, find suitable production partners, obtain offers, evaluate, decide. This takes time; sometimes even 10 to 15 days. But it doesn’t have to, says Lucas Scherer, founder and CEO of sourc-e. The Cologne-based start-up has since developed into a full-service print broker with a powerful network of international print shops behind it.
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Do you know how much your business is worth? Or what you should look out for when it comes to buying or selling a business? No? Then you should definitely tune into the latest episode of the Beyond Print podcast! Because that’s exactly what Bernd Zipper discusses with Jens Freyler, Managing Director of the Hamburg-based consultancy, Knox, and initiator of print-eXchange.de, the new business exchange for the printing industry.
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In the absence of a successor, what should be done? Or what if the economic situation is so tense that change is urgently needed in order to remain viable in the future? In any event, “closing up stop” is the worst of all solutions, says Jens Freyler, Managing Director of the Hamburg-based management consultancy Knox.
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A new week, a new challenge for Haeme Ulrich and Bernd Zipper: “Do you always have to be part of the platform hype?” is what Thomas Kramer from censhare wanted to know this time around. He got the idea for his question from the recent “Clubhouse” hype. Whether you find every new trend funny or are quickly annoyed by it, is a question of personal preference for Haeme.
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René Theiler from the Swiss Printing Industry Association (VSD) has set the current challenge for the Jabberfish podcast: “Can printers also be agencies?” In the new episode, Haeme Ulrich and Bernd Zipper discuss the topic as usual. “Then, conversely, an agency could also set up a copying machine and say ‘We’re printers now,'” says Zipper.
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At first glance, the target group for the Abihome platform seems too small to make a business model out of it – or so says CEO Johannes Kautz. The focus is primarily on the approximately 300,000 students who take their Abitur exams in Germany every year.
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Bernd Zipper talked to two of the three founders of printess, Christoph Clermont and Christoph Schacht, to find out exactly what printess is about and what makes it so special. The two veterans of the online print industry talk about their new web-to-print editor and explain the differences and improvements to the already familiar browser editors.
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