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How Much Does AI Matter for Print?
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large and AI Skeptic
I don’t know the answer to the question in this title but you’re the pros, so you tell me. I’ve been to some print-related conferences and the AI sessions are always well-attended. Yet when I ask people afterwards (one-on-one) responses range from skeptical to cautiously optimistic. No one seems to be betting their business on AI.
Thank goodness!
Most use AI as a tool to do a few things faster but seem to be more or less experimenting. This is good because they learn both their limits and those of AI. Some of the most data-centric printers I know only test it, doing what I think of as “sanity checks.” Some use AI as an aid for decision-making—seeing it as one tool of several. Others use it to fine-tune language when responding to an RFP. All are smart guys with significant operations who recognize a useful tool when they see it but limit AI use to an advisory capacity, another voice in the room, if you will.
Given that, I want to hear what some Print Planet readers are doing. Please tell me a couple of things:
You can respond in the comments section or email me privately at [email protected]. All responses sent to my email are confidential and I will not identify anyone who responds, either in the comments or via email.
Thanks for your help. We all get smarter with more input from colleagues.
By Noel Ward, Editor@Large and AI Skeptic
I don’t know the answer to the question in this title but you’re the pros, so you tell me. I’ve been to some print-related conferences and the AI sessions are always well-attended. Yet when I ask people afterwards (one-on-one) responses range from skeptical to cautiously optimistic. No one seems to be betting their business on AI.
Thank goodness!
Most use AI as a tool to do a few things faster but seem to be more or less experimenting. This is good because they learn both their limits and those of AI. Some of the most data-centric printers I know only test it, doing what I think of as “sanity checks.” Some use AI as an aid for decision-making—seeing it as one tool of several. Others use it to fine-tune language when responding to an RFP. All are smart guys with significant operations who recognize a useful tool when they see it but limit AI use to an advisory capacity, another voice in the room, if you will.
Given that, I want to hear what some Print Planet readers are doing. Please tell me a couple of things:
How are you presently using AI, and which one(s) do you use?
What ways do you think AI could help a printing business? Or can it?
What advice do you give other printers about AI?
You can respond in the comments section or email me privately at [email protected]. All responses sent to my email are confidential and I will not identify anyone who responds, either in the comments or via email.
Thanks for your help. We all get smarter with more input from colleagues.
). As for the first four, whatever tools we can get to help with the drudgery of multiple quotes we won't be awarded, endless schedule shuffling and fixing/imposing files will all be welcome additions to our collective toolkits.
