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drawing on its potential to enhance sustainability throughout the print lifecycle. This is important to buyers, especially those with strong corporate sustainability strategies, among whom 83% believe AI is an important tool for addressing sustainability issues l Device maintenance and servicing: AI is well-established in predictive maintenance, with innovators now introducing augmented reality and GenAI solutions to support on-site and remote customer support.
Independent software vendors are also incorporating AI capabilities within IDP solutions and developing innovations such as content-aware printing, sensitive data identification, and GenAI-powered documents summaries. Hyperscaler cloud platforms are also entering the IDP space, refining their AI/ ML capabilities for document processing tasks from OCR, NLP and data extraction to document classification. This offers opportunities for smaller players to layer solutions onto these services.
Kongsberg PCS appoints Canon UK as partner and reseller Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems has appointed Canon UK to distribute Kongsberg products across the UK. Starting this month, Canon UK’s
print and converting businesses across the UK and Ireland and marks an important step in our established relationship with Canon.” Duncan Smith, country director, production at Canon UK and Ireland, added: “Kongsberg cutting solutions are designed to match the speeds of our wide format printers, making them an ideal complement to our systems in demanding graphics and packaging production environments, handling diverse materials, including the most challenging rigid media. The partnership with Kongsberg PCS will ensure that Canon customers are equipped with premium cutting solutions that help them to deliver premium quality finished products and broaden the range of creative applications they can produce.” As part of the agreement, a Kongsberg PCS X24 cutting table will be showcased at Canon UK’s Birmingham Customer Experience Centre, giving customers an easy to reach location to see the combination of the flexibility and productivity of Kongsberg and Canon solutions. In addition to installing the cutting systems, Kongsberg engineers will also offer customers on-going technical, application and maintenance support to help them achieve optimal performance.
Large Format Graphics organisation will promote Kongsberg cutting solutions in conjunction with its Arizona flatbed and Colorado roll-to-roll wide format printers. Canon customers will benefit from Kongsberg’s specialist engineering and materials expertise, as all cutting tables will be installed and serviced by Kongsberg’s dedicated UK team. “The appointment of Canon UK as a Kongsberg PCS distributor solidifies our commitment to UK customers across the sign, display and packaging industries,” said David Preskett, VP EMEA & APAC, Kongsberg PCS. “Canon is known for its high-quality, ultra-productive print production systems, and this agreement is testament to Kongsberg’s ability to deliver market-leading cutting solutions that match
David Preskett VP EMEA & APAC
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those output capabilities. This agreement will increase our reach to
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