Zaikio Blog

Dirk Stascheit

24. October 2023

UK print shops can now more easily connect their systems without any custom development.

Dirk Stascheit

11. October 2023

The partnership between Infigo and Zaikio enables print businesses to easily improve their workflows.

Dirk Stascheit

6. October 2023

In Birmingham, Zaikio and its partners Imprint and Infigo presented a showcase that's a powerful step towards easier automation for heterogenous print shop software ecosystems.

Dirk Stascheit

24. August 2023

Join us at the NEC in Birmingham from September 19th to 21st to see how the Zaikio data platform enables seamless data flows within any print shop.

Dirk Stascheit

22. August 2023

…even if you are not a developer.

Dirk Stascheit

8. August 2023

In this blog series, we explain how you can use Mission Control to get a grip on a flood of jobs and significantly increase the efficiency of your print shop. In this article, you'll learn how to quickly access all the details for any given job.

Olga Baginski

7. June 2023

In several articles, we explain how you can use Mission Control to get a grip on the flood of your jobs and significantly increase the efficiency of your print shop. In this article, we'll talk about the job overview in Mission Control.

Dirk Stascheit

29. November 2022

It was all about enabling print shops to provide more and better service through digitalisation at the print industry meetup on 15 November in Dortmund, hosted by Zaikio and Antalis. Thomas Karcher, head of printing company Butz & Bürker in Karlsruhe, held a keynote about his modernisation journey up until now - and shared both moments of frustration and euphoria.

Olga Baginski

29. September 2022

After a successful start in Germany, Zaikio and Antalis are extending their cooperation to Switzerland. There too, customers can now place their orders directly from within their MIS, starting with sheet-fed offset papers and envelopes.

Olga Baginski

19. August 2022

Representatives from print shops, Antalis and Zaikio met for a get-together at the historic Benz Museum in Ladenburg.

Olga Baginski

25. May 2022

When print shop managers think about modernization, they often think mostly about machinery - to optimize the shop floor part of the process down to the last detail. However, thanks to advances in machinery, there is often scant potential there. That’s why it usually makes more sense to look at other optimization opportunities. Too many tasks in print shops are still done manually: calling suppliers to check availability and prices  searching for materials in the warehouse because there is no overview of stocks and storage locations searching for information on slips of paper to find out the current status of a certain job  Things like this waste valuable time in the print shop every day. Time that could be better spent on improving customer service, for example. What to do? Print shops need to digitize their analog proce...

Olga Baginski

2. December 2021

The software company, Zaikio, announced two major successes at the IPIA 2021: The start of a new partnership with Tharstern and the full connection to Premier.

Olga Baginski

2. December 2021

With the addition of Streb, Richter & Menzel and iQIP, Zaikio is expanding its portfolio for printers who wish to order materials via Zaikio Procurement.

Olga Baginski

18. February 2021

A Review of the Procurement Process in Printing CompaniesI have been working at Zaikio in product marketing for three months – my first station in the printing industry. Before that, I spent several years in the software environment, where digitisation and automation were a given.In the first weeks of my time at Zaikio I realised that the printing industry has a lot of catching up to do in this area. I learned a lot about the processes in printing companies and how they actually work. Coming from an industry that automated everything that could be automated, I first had to get used to the fact that printers, for example, increasingly use the phone to order paper and other materials. I can only imagine what a time-consuming and often nerve-wracking process this is - with double entries of the same data into different system...

Christian Weyer

5. February 2021

During the last couple of months, as the work on Mission Control takes shape and many partners already have joined us in our efforts, and we’ve been asked repeatedly about Zaikio’s role in connectivity in general and also in regards to JDF.But before we get to that, let’s start with a piece of history. Where we come fromPrint shops aren’t islands. And inside a single print shop, all the different departments and people aren’t islands either. This truth will become even more pronounced in the future. Printers will have to foster internal and external collaboration, team work, and streamlined, meaningful end-to-end processes to be successful.When we started Keyline - our MIS product - six years ago, we build it in such a way that it connects to others through APIs. We did this more by accident than by strategic planning. The...