by DPS Magazine
According to the PRINTING United Alliance, the 2025 PRINTING United trade event welcomed more than 30,000 registered attendees from 104 countries, and featured 838 exhibitors this October.
Above: Duplo offered live demonstrations featuring the DuSense DDC-8000 B2 Raised Spot UV Coater and DSM-1000 B2 Platen Die Cutter.
From digital embellishments and wide format media options to the latest in production inkjet and direct to film technologies, visitors were able to experience innovations in print technologies across the board.
Inkjet was a hot area. Canon displayed a diverse range production technologies, including the varioPRINT iX1700 sheetfed inkjet press. Also noteworthy, Canon introduced a new series in its wide format portfolio, the Colorado XL printer series—a hybrid 3.4-meter UVgel printer designed for productive, high-quality, large format output.
Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc. showcased the TASKalfa Pro 15000c and its latest range of new accessories and workflow integrations that extend the TASKalfa Pro 15000c’s capabilities and enable customers to tailor their production environments to meet specific business needs including the Plockmatic RCT Unit and Booklet Maker, IS-9100 Cover Inserter, Tecnau Sheet Feeder BV, and GBC PunchAlfa Plus.
Just prior to the show, Xerox introduced the IJP900 Inkjet Press, marking its return to the mid-volume inkjet market. The IJP900 is designed to meet the evolving demands of print service providers (PSPs) looking to expand into new applications such as transactional printing and direct mail, as well as in-plant operators aiming to reduce costs and boost operational efficiency.
For toner-based production, Sharp previewed its latest innovations in digital press technology, including expanded BP-1200S Color Press Series with six-color single-pass output and tactile embellishments, streamlined monochrome production with GBC FuturoPunch ProUpcoming BP-80C80 entry-level platform, bridging office and light production, as well as an updated Partner ecosystem featuring Fiery, Color-Logic, Duplo, Plockmatic, and Taktiful.
Xerox announced two new Proficio presses, the Proficio PX300 and PX500, which deliver speeds of 85 and 100 pages per minute, respectively.
No print is complete without finishing. Many finishing vendors were represented on the show floor.
C.P. Bourg showcased its new BBM 40/60+ Booklet Maker. The product produces documents from two sheets up to 12 millimeters thick. The company also partnered with leading digital and inkjet press manufacturers to showcase a variety of inline finishing solutions. These tenured partnerships highlighted how finishing and printing seamlessly enhance end-to-end workflows, delivering efficiency, automation, and reliability.
Duplo USA Corporation demonstrated the impact of print embellishment. Visitors to the Duplo booth along with select partner booths experienced a range of enhanced sample applications that they can touch and feel. Featured collaborations included Color-Logic, GWF Foils, Neenah, Unifoil, Ultimate Tech, and Xerox.
Graphic Whizard highlighted a range of products including slit/cut/creasing machines, creasing and perforating devices, creasing and folding machines, cutters, coaters, perfect binders, number/perf/score solutions, feeders, and bindery peripherals.
MBM Corporation highlighted its finishing products for today’s digital and offset print industries. The extensive product line includes Triumph and VRCut Ready Triumph cutters, AeroCut digital print finishing systems, folders, creasers, collators, and bookletmakers.
MBO America’s new CC 23 Contour Cutting Unit adds the ability to enhance the finished product with a wide variety of shape cuts, window knock outs, coupon perforations, and attention-grabbing contours. The module uses magnetic flexible plate dies and incorporates an easy method to change repeats. Repeat lengths can vary widely from the common 11-inch U.S. letter sizes up through longer pieces that can be used for direct mail and advertising. The CC 23 is an additional module available for MBO’s modular finishing system, enabling additional embellishment to the final product for enhanced conversion rates.
Müller Martini demonstrated its Antaro Digital. Attendees witnessed a new benchmark in digital, on-demand book finishing—featuring the production of both softcover books and hardcover book blocks utilizing automation, seamless workflow integration, and unmatched precision. On the floor, the Antaro Digital produced public domain books to be donated to local Orlando schools. These were dynamically stacked by a Solema cobot.
Rollem showcased the new Strata finishing systems, which have combined an extremely tight, compact footprint with the high productivity. The touchscreen controls and screw drive adjustments allow for simplified, quick adjustments between size and skew of carton. Utilizing true belt folding technology, the machine overcomes the traditional limitations of fixed plough-rail folding systems.
Tecnau offered the latest advancements in finishing and packaging, including the Revolution 50 Roll-to-Roll, designed to reliably unwind and rewind rolls across the widest breadth of applications, keeping your inkjet press running.
Additionally, Tecnau along with Kompac, collaborated on a finishing line for those doing color digital printing of B2/B2+ sheets. In this exhibition, Kompac’s Phoenix 20 S coater flood coats and feeds B2+ sheets that were pre-printed by the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press to Tecnau’s Stack 1212 cut and stack system.
Standard Finishing’s 5,000 square foot exhibit space hosted over 20 individual post-press finishing solutions from partners Horizon International and Hunkeler with a focus on advanced automation in perfect binding and trimming, saddlestitching and bookletmaking, folding, die cutting slitting and creasing, and roll-fed finishing. Standard featured its newest solutions, like Horizon’s BQ-300 Perfect Binder and SPF-2000 Bookletmaker, alongside solutions such as Horizon’s BQ-500 Perfect Binder, HT-300 Three-side Trimmer, HT-1000V Three-knife Trimmer, StitchLiner Mark IV Saddlestitcher, RD-N4055 Die Cutting System, AFV-566FKT Folder, CRF-362 Creaser/Folder, and SmartSlitter.
The BQ-500 Perfect Binder, capable of producing up to 800 books per hour even during variable production, was equipped with case binding accessories at the show to demonstrate how easily PSPs can switch between perfect binding and case binding preparation. Standard also featured the roll-fed Hunkeler/Horizon Roll-to-Saddlestitch combination solution featuring the Hunkeler UW8 Unwinder and CS8 Cutter inline with Horizon’s StitchLiner Mark V Saddlestitcher. The Roll-to-Saddlestitch solution include Horizon’s HSF-50 High-Speed Sheet Feeder, which seamlessly switches from cut-sheet feeding up to 45,000 sheets per hour to bypass mode for roll-fed production. Finally, several Horizon solutions at the show were connected to iCE LiNK, Horizon’s cloud-based bindery control system.
Workflow is essential as digital continues to penetrate every segment of digital print.
Fiery, LLC highlighted a range of products and technologies including Fiery FreeForm Create 2.0 and Fiery JobFlow Pro, to AI-empowered solutions like Fiery InkWise and Fiery Scribe.
Gelato, the software company behind GelatoConnect, the AI-powered operating system for print production, showcased its latest innovations. Because the economics of print are shifting fast, average order values are dropping, print runs are shrinking, and customers expect faster turnaround at higher margins, PSPs must eliminate fragmentation and connect procurement, production, and shipping into a single workstream. Launched in September, the GelatoConnect AI Estimator is an AI-powered quoting engine that produces precise estimates in just 15 seconds and delivers branded, customer-ready quotes in under five minutes.
That’s a Wrap
This is a sampling of the companies and products displayed at this year’s PRINTING United Expo.
Also, be sure to stay tuned as the show heads to Las Vegas, NV on September 23 to 25, 2026.
Nov2025, DPS Magazine
