There’s a backdrop in Brixen with four words on it: Our world is printed.
In June 2026, the four of us stood in front of it at the Durst NEXT Technology Festival, lanyards round our necks, smiling for the camera. Two years earlier we’d been a brand-new company on a very pink stand in Hall 7 at drupa, telling anyone who’d listen that print didn’t need more machines. It needed the machines it already had to understand each other.
Today that idea gets a much bigger home. Durst Group has taken a majority stake in Triple C Labs GmbH, the company behind the CoCoCo Platform. CoCoCo is now part of the Durst family.
And the platform stays open. That’s the whole point.
The problem we’ve been chasing since day one
It’s 6am. The MIS says the job is ready. The prepress system says it’s waiting on a file. The press says nothing at all, because nobody ever taught it to. Three systems, three versions of the truth, and a production manager with a phone in one hand and a cold coffee in the other.
Maybe that’s your morning. You are not alone. Almost every print shop runs some version of it, because every vendor speaks its own dialect. JDF and JMF (Job Definition Format and Job Messaging Format) in theory. Local accents in practice.
So people translate by hand. They re-key specs, chase statuses and stitch the day together from screens that never quite agree. It’s slow, it’s error-prone, and it quietly drains margin from every job.
Two halves of the same idea
Durst has been building printing technology since 1936. Its Kyveris stack is the industrial software and AI layer for connected production, bringing the physics, colour and orchestration intelligence that make installed presses data-driven.
The CoCoCo Platform is the horizontal integration layer that sits across the whole shop floor. At its core is a typed, event-driven Data Model with standardised entities. In plain English: your presses, prepress systems and shop-floor software finally agree on what a Job, a Product or a Resource is, in real time.
Kyveris understands what a machine does. CoCoCo understands what the whole production floor knows. Put them side by side and the gap closes. Flow meets physics. Context meets colour. Data becomes decisions.
“The team at CoCoCo is delighted to partner with Durst Group. From the first time we spoke, it was clear we shared a common vision for the connected future of print, and a partnership became inevitable. An open ecosystem isn’t just a strategic choice, but a prerequisite for meaningful innovation. While we are excited to reinforce Durst’s Kyveris stack with our data fabric, we remain truly agnostic and vendor-neutral. This strategic step doesn’t restrict us, but rather accelerates our roadmap, allowing us to scale the CoCoCo Platform and reach many more third-party OEMs, software vendors, and PSPs worldwide.”
Karl Ciz, Co-Founder of CoCoCo
Why open matters more than ever
Some people will expect the usual story here: a big manufacturer buys an integration platform, and the platform slowly starts preferring one brand of press. That’s not this story.
CoCoCo keeps operating independently, under the same brand, the same leadership and the same customer commitments. The platform stays vendor-neutral and fully open to third-party OEMs, software vendors and print businesses. Competing OEMs included.
What changes is the pace. Durst’s backing means faster releases, broader integrations and deeper data models, and because the platform stays open, everyone connected to it gets the benefit.
Print has always moved forward on open standards. We’re carrying that on, and building a bigger open ecosystem, not a smaller one. Christoph Gamper, CEO and Co-Owner of Durst Group, puts it better than anyone:
“The right answer to complex production landscapes is rarely more machines. It is more clarity about the machines already running. CoCoCo built exactly that: a common data language that presses, prepress systems and shop-floor software can actually share. Dashboards, automation, AI assistants are all downstream questions. Get the data model right, and the rest follows. We are joining forces to accelerate the roadmap. And we are keeping CoCoCo Platform open, because a data fabric that is not open is not a fabric. It is a fence.”
Christoph Gamper, CEO and Co-Owner of Durst Group
No Artificial Intelligence without Intelligent Data
Everyone wants AI on the shop floor. Very few have the data to make it work. Algorithms are only as smart as the information they receive, and patchy, siloed data gives you patchy, siloed answers.
Durst brings deep machine and AI expertise. We bring the open data foundation that lets that intelligence reach every machine you run, not just one brand of them. And a person still reviews, confirms and decides. Automation doesn’t mean handing over the keys.
To everyone who got us here
To our customers: you trusted a young company with the data that runs your production. That trust is the reason we’re here.
To our partners: thank you for building with us. There’s a lot more to come.
To Christoph Gamper and everyone at Durst Group: thank you for believing in an open platform, and for the welcome in Brixen.
And to our own team, who turned an idea on a pink stand into a platform the industry takes seriously: this one’s yours.
The verdict
Somewhere tonight, a press is finishing a long run and the software a few metres away has no idea. That’s the gap we’ve spent every day since 2024 closing.
Now we close it faster, with Durst behind us and the door wide open to everyone else. The print industry runs on precision. Its systems are about to catch up.
