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One great event has hardly stopped before the next one is announced. This time its an event I have always wanted to attend, but never got to. However, that will not abandon me from writing about it and even promote it. One of the major influencers in the printing industry, especially in Europe is Bernd Zipper from Beyond Print. He is an author, keynote speaker, and more than ever, one of the most recognized researchers when it comes to online print.

His base is in Germany, and being the biggest print market in Europe, the huge market has a tremendous impact on all European print markets. The first time I met him was at an event in Denmark where he gave a speech about web-to-print/online print and some of the things everybody should take into considerations when investing - and essentially everybody should. His company Zipcon did a web site where you essentially could read short reviews/comparisons of all the web-to-print solutions available. With German thoroughness, and of course, even more, the skills of Bernd Zipper, this was an eye-opener for me. I had no clue that there were so many different suppliers in the market - but well, that was the case. This is many years ago, and even WAY before we even started thinking about INKISH.

Bernd Zipper and his team is an extremely skilled group of people - and while writing this, I got my doubt if he at all has a team of whether he is just a super-human with super-man skills. Note to self - ask him!

However, one of the projects that now seems to be in its eight iterations is The Online Print Symposium. The event is a recurring annual event where attendees will have the chance to meet a very well-orchestrated number of speakers with expertise within online printing.

Next years 2020 edition has just been announced, and the topic is "Transforming the DNA of Print." This is, of course, a pretty bold promise, but read more about the event here, and I hope we will have a chance to cover the event this time.

Nov 15, 2019

Author: Morten Reitoft