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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.
