Background
Driving Digital Print Excellence: Empowering Innovation and Quality Assurance
I specialize in digital print automation and machine-vision inspection — integrating advanced QA and process-control solutions for HP Indigo, BST, and OEM partners worldwide. With global experience across R&D centers, converters, and OEM environments, my work focuses on delivering predictable quality, workflow clarity, and high-speed automation.
“MIS owns the job. Prepress owns the PDF.
The DFE owns the pixels. The press owns the ink.
BST owns the truth.”
This simple framework guides how I understand quality ownership across the digital print workflow — and why inspection sits at the center of automation, data integrity, and reliable production.
Applied Color Theory
In all your ways acknowledge the masters. Much of my professional inspiration is sourced in the wisdom of Miles Southworth and Dan Margulis. I met Miles during his visit to the Scitex Corp. in Israel in 1999. His book is 'Quality and Productivity In The Graphic Arts' (1989) about how to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Profit in printing. I studied under Dan in an Applied Color Theory course in 2002, his book, 'Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction' is the bible of practical color theory.
Print Quality Inspection
Flexographic Print Quality Inspection
Applied understanding of common flexographic print defects and developing a road map for printed web inspection.
Knowledge
BST North America is the leading innovative manufacturer of quality assurance systems and web guidance systems for the web printing and various other processing industries. From our locations in Illinois and Wisconsin, we have built a team who continues to move quality innovation and service for our customers worldwide.
E2E Application Expert / Labels & Packaging
HP Indigo Digital Print
I served as the global technical support lead for Coca Cola's digital labels production, authoring the How-to-Guide for their digital Labels & Packaging presses
Skills
Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills. Collectively, these professionals and “changemakers” consistently create better outcomes for businesses, community and society worldwide.
DISCLAIMER
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BST TubeScan integrated on the HP Indigo V12
First Public Debut of TubeScan on the HP Indigo V12 Digital Press
What began as a first conversation with HP Indigo at Labelexpo Americas 2022 in Chicago became a full, live reality at Labelexpo Europe 2025 in Barcelona.
Before the launch I led the testing, validation, and approval with HP Indigo R&D and the Global Business Unit. Pictured here is Ernest Schneider at the public debut in Barcelona.
1st in Asia
Hunan Xiangwei Packaging in China
1st HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press installations in China, 2016 https://tinyurl.com/8xn375ce
Huhtamaki in India
1st installation in India - HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press and 1st 'Share A Coke' campaign, Feb. 2018 https://tinyurl.com/2p8zavxh
Amcor Packaging China
In June 2019, the AVT module for low contrast 100% LCCD automatic inspection was implemented in rotogravure printing for the first time. This cutting-edge technology significantly improved print quality by detecting barely visible defects in real-time.
