Keypoint Intelligence’s Top 5 Infographics of 2024

Canon’s New Colorado XL7: a Modular Leap in Wide Format

The wide format print market continues to evolve as providers seek faster, more versatile, and more efficient ways to meet diverse customer demands. Canon’s latest launch, the Colorado XL7, marks an important step in this direction. Positioned as the most ambitious addition to the Colorado line, the XL7 is designed not only as a high-volume production engine but as an investment platform for print providers who want to scale flexibly and strategically.

Why Duty Cycle Is Dead: The Rise of True Capacity in Digital Printing

LabelExpo Europe 2025 in Barcelona was buzzing with one theme above all: productivity. For years, press manufacturers have leaned on a simple mantra of, “If your press isn’t running, you’re not making money.” That mindset—rooted in the old duty cycle model of commercial printing—assumes nonstop operation equals profitability. But converters today see things differently. They aren’t asking how many theoretical impressions or square meters a press can churn out if it runs 24/7 without stopping. They’re asking a harder, more practical question: “How much of that output is usable, shippable, and billable?” In other words, “What is my true press capacity?”

VIDEO: Ricoh’s Carsten Bruhn Prepares Dealers to Look Ahead

In our latest Interview Insights, Keypoint Intelligence’s Anthony Sci sat down with Carsten Bruhn, President and CEO of Ricoh North America. Together, the duo discussed several topics related to dealers, including what Sci referred to as a “Culture of Excellence” at Ricoh. Bruhn addressed a lot of content that is often introduced at Ricoh’s dealer summits, including the belief that dealers need to start growing again. The most recent proposal from the company to encourage dealers’ growth is their supply chain-as-a-service concept, which should allow dealers to not have to worry about carrying inventory as well as allow them to preconfigure products via a supply chain.