Grounded in real print work
Demonstrations of current tools and techniques, grounded in the work printers perform every day — not abstractions, and not a vendor pitch.
AI at Print UV
Practical AI for the work printers do every day.
Print UV 2027 brings practical AI guidance into the industry’s most concentrated gathering of leaders advancing UV, LED UV, special effects and high-value print.
AI is woven through the whole agenda—brought directly into the business and production topics this audience already values, not parked in a side track.
Who Leads It
A co-founder’s guidance, a practitioner’s lens.
Brought to you by
Steve Metcalf, Print UV co-founder and a widely recognized print-industry AI keynote speaker and workshop leader, will lead a special hands-on learning experience designed to help printers accelerate their AI journeys using the latest practical tools and techniques. His guidance will also be woven throughout the conference as Print UV brings an AI lens to the industry's most important business, creative and production conversations.
The program is brought to you by Imagine AI Live — the AI-native conference series Steve founded, whose first gathering since May 2025 in Las Vegas is folded into Print UV 2027.
None of this is new ground here. Steve Metcalf was demonstrating practical uses of ChatGPT and Midjourney on the Print UV stage in 2023 — the same proof-first approach now shapes the whole 2027 program.
The Hands-On Experience
Roll up your sleeves. Take the work home.
A special hands-on AI learning experience, available only inside the Print UV environment — built to help printers accelerate their AI journeys with the latest practical tools and techniques.
Guided, not lectured
Steve Metcalf has spent years helping print leaders put AI to work. The experience is built for doing: leave knowing how to keep going on your own.
Only in this room
A bonus available only within the Print UV environment — alongside the UV, LED UV and special-effects program the conference is known for.
The exact format of the hands-on experience will be announced as the 2027 program is finalized. Updates subscribers hear first.
Integrated, Not Isolated
One agenda, with an AI lens on all of it.
Applied AI for Print is one of three connected 2027 pillars — alongside UV + LED UV Innovation and High-Value Print + Special Effects. AI concepts are integrated across the agenda subjects Print UV has always covered, not restricted to one isolated track.
- Production
- Workflow
- Color
- Sales
- Estimating
- Automation
- Packaging
- Embellishment
- Leadership
From the People Doing It
Printers already on the journey, comparing notes.
Printer case studies
Printing leaders already implementing AI share candid stories: the business impact, the use cases that worked, the obstacles they hit and the lessons they’d hand the next shop.
Panels that compare journeys
Printers, technology leaders and practitioners side by side — comparing adoption approaches, success patterns, failures and organizational hurdles to identify what is producing measurable value.
What You Take Home
Leave with more than notes.
Every AI conversation at Print UV is built to send you back to the shop with something you can use.
- A clear-eyed read on the landscape— where AI is creating measurable value in printing businesses today, and where it isn’t yet.
- Use cases tested by peers— what other printers tried, what changed, what failed and what they’d do next.
- Practical tools and techniques— current enough to apply to estimating, production, sales and creative work when you’re back at the plant.
- A network that answers the phone — printers, technology leaders and experts to call when the next adoption question lands on your desk.
- The whole picture — all of it connected to the UV, LED UV, special-effects and high-value print program around it, the reason this room gathers in the first place.
Biennial by design. Miss 2027, and the next room is two years away. More reasons to be in the room
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The hands-on experience format, printer case studies and panel lineups will be announced as the 2027 program takes shape — one or two emails a month, and updates subscribers hear first.