Canon PPS makes inline inspection a permanent showroom feature for sheetfed inkjet, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency moves to regulate dark patterns, and OpenAI rolls out “Dots” — plus 7 more | BPJ News
Inspection built into the line, regulation built into the UI, and ordering rebuilt around agents—three “entry points” shifting at once, each on its own clock for print companies’ QA, compliance, and demand capture.
Canon Production Printing Systems has put the last hard part of scaling sheetfed inkjet—inspection—on permanent display as an in-line system. Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency is also signaling that e-commerce screen design will be treated as a legal issue, not just a UX choice.
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