Agentic AI in Print Workflows: Live Demo, Guardrails, and Pilot Planning

Artificial intelligence in print continues to move past prompts and into repeatable operational tasks. This follow-up workshop brings Agentic AI out of theory and into a practical “ride along” workshop format, where our presenters demonstrate how inputs become structured outputs inside realistic print roles and constraints.

OPIA welcomes Christopher Smyth and Lee Eldridge for this interactive session focused on demo, critique, and deployment-ready thinking. Using our February Print Pulse Live session: Beyond the Prompt: Agentic AI for Print Professionals as a foundation, the goal of this month’s webinar is to show what a well-scoped AI agent actually looks like when it is asked to perform clear tasks with realistic inputs, boundaries, approved data, and human oversight.

The key idea is that AI is already present and active in many workplaces, but there are risks around informal adoption without governance or reproducibility, and opportunities in formalizing both tools and processes organizationally. Agentic AI was introduced as a supervised role-based system that can reliably convert unstructured inputs into structured decisions and documents, provided it is constrained by instructions, data access rules, and review steps.

This workshop assumes that foundation and moves to the next logical phase: What does this look like in a workflow that you can actually test and pilot?

Through this walkthrough of setting up an agent tasked to perform a specific task or job, session attendees will observe the various inputs, the implementation of the reasoning structure, the checks, and the final outputs.

The Session will focus on…

• A very brief refresher on agentic AI and why data sovereignty and the “role plus data plus rules” system can make your automation more reliable and consistent with your business needs.
• Live “ride-along” demo(s) of set up and testing with print-specific examples
• Group critique prompts, where participants are asked to help identify risks, gaps, and potential process improvements
• A guided deployment worksheet:
  • Pick a use case
  • Define the agent
  • Map the data / input sources
  • Set output standards and review rules
  • Test!
• Group Brainstorming around other roles and tasks that fit this structure
• Open Q and A focused on implementation and adoption barriers