None of the five predictions can be scored yet

With equipment tech launches piling up, what should printers trust first?

A bookbinding company’s bankruptcy filing coincided with announcements of AI-enabled multifunction printers and equipment that connects production processes. All five forecasts from the previous issue remain ahead of their deadlines, but we will not count unresolved calls as wins—and we set out what evidence will settle each one.

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None of the five predictions can be scored yet

TMB, which operated three factories, filed a petition for bankruptcy.

A common thread in this week’s announcements was investment that makes use of existing machines and documents, rather than replacing whole equipment fleets. They included post-press connection equipment, generative AI that reads paper documents and shared testing of material performance. When demand is shrinking, the question is whether additional investment really reduces waiting time and waste.…

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