The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. Pascal Juery has been Chief Executive Officer of the Agfa-Gevaert Group since February 1, 2020. He describes his aim as ‘to continue the transformation of Agfa in the digital world’. We caught up with him ahead of his Leaders Summit interview.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. Christoph Gamper has been CEO of Durst Group since 2013, and co-owner since 2018. On the second day of the event, Christoph will be in conversation with FuturePrint, and he spoke to us ahead of the session to offer some insight into Durst’s focus.

Earlier this year Ricoh Europe and Farbenpunkt announced a partnership between the two companies which combines Ricoh’s leading inkjet head technology with Farbenpunkts PeractoJet ink technology. We talk to Graham Kennedy who is the Director of industrial Print at Ricoh Europe about how this came about and what this could mean for the textile printing sector in terms of production and sustainability.

Global Graphics is a leading developer of integrated software and hardware solutions for graphics and industrial inkjet printing. Customers include press manufacturers such as HP, Canon, Durst, Roland, Hymmen, and hundreds of packaging printers, trade shops, and converters worldwide. In this article, we talk to CEO Mike Rottenborn ahead of the FuturePrint Leaders Summit and his session on M&A.

At the FuturePrint Virtual Summit in October, Xaar rebranded and launched ImagineX a new printhead platform designed to bring inkjet into a new age and allied to a rebranding has reignited the business back to where many believe it should be, innovating from the front and defining the future. We spoke directly with the new CEO, John Mills, about how and what the future means for Xaar.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit, 23–24 March 2021 is an event dedicated to leadership, vision and inspiration for the future of print technology. This event is the biggest and most compelling gathering of strategic decision-makers and leaders representing the most important global digital print technology brands. Read on and check out this amazing programme.

In the FuturePrint events in October 2020 and February 2021, the effects of the pandemic on print and the hopes for the future have been a big focus. When the UK lockdown was announced in February 2020 DoDxAct had only been trading for just over two years and was building a reputation for combining its expertise in inkjet process optimisation with a practical support through lab testing. Almost 50% of our business relied on travel to customer sites, either providing print head and waveform training or assisting directly with the design and build of highly-customised inkjet deposition devices.

Founding FuturePrint Partner, Ricoh is opening market access to American ink pioneer Farbenpunkt’s innovative new textile ink, PeractoJet. The collaboration enables OEM clients to compete in the highly attractive digital textile market and enhance their environmental offering. Reducing the environmental impact of global textile production caused by using dye-based, such as reactive inks in digital and analogue processes, is the driver for this collaboration.

The third virtual FuturePrint event organised by FM Future delivered once again with quality content and an impressive global attendance of delegates from across the print spectrum. With a focus on the theme of adaptability with technology, the event showcased updates from many of the worlds leading innovators in digital printing technology.

Sopano is an independent printing company located west of Paris, near Rouen, France that manufactures and prints adhesive labels and rolls of receipts. Sopano’s customers are hypermarkets and supermarkets, as well as industrial companies in the agro-food and many other fields. The company currently employs around 80 people.

Meteor Inkjet Ltd, leading supplier of electronics, software, tools and services for industrial inkjet, further expands its product portfolio with the introduction of a set of products for Epson’s I3200 range of PrecisionCore printheads. These products join Meteor’s previously launched solutions for Epson S3200, S1600 and S800 printheads.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. We caught up with Simon Daplyn, Manager, Product Marketing, Sun Chemical and Phil Jackman, Global Product Manager, Digital, Sun Chemical, to find out why they are returning to a FuturePrint event and what’s in store for their session.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. We caught up with Marc Graindourze, Business Manager Industrial inks, Agfa Graphics, to find out what conference viewers can expect from Agfa.

This article introduces SIGNITE™ as an alternative to ultraviolet screen and digital direct to shape printing for hollow glass container decorating. SIGNITE hybridizes elements of screen, piezo direct-to-shape inkjet and flexographic printing and creates a unique no-look decorating aesthetic using variable data high definition inline printing assets.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. We caught up with Mary Ann Rowan, Chief Experience Officer and Jonathan Malone-McGrew, Senior Director of Engagement at Solimar Systems, to find out why they are continuing to support FuturePrint and what viewers can expect from Solimar at the Future Print Virtual Conference.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. This article provides a brief taster of what event attendees can expect from HP’s session, presented by Eviatar Halevi, Packaging Business Development Director, and Xavier Melisse, Worldwide Category Manager, Supplies, both from HP PageWide Industrial Corrugated.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. We caught up with Phil McMullin, UK Sales Manager Pro Graphics, Epson UK, to find out what we can expect from the business at the upcoming event.

Katelyn Bohr is the Director of Marketing for ColordyneTechnologies, who are one of the innovative new FuturePrintpartners for 2021. In this interview, we talk to Katelyn about her thoughts on print, inkjet, marketing and her view of the future. As a business, Colordyne designs, engineers and manufactures cutting-edge digital inkjet print engines for strategic integration partners across the full spectrum of inkjet printing markets.

The family-run printing company Eticod from Katowice, Poland, founded in 1994, focused on the sustainable production of labels at an early stage and has already invested in photovoltaic systems and heat exchangers in the past. With the investment in UV-LED for drying, the CO2 emissions at Eticod are reduced even further. With the construction of the new factory building, production could be expanded and made even more sustainable.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. We caught up with Francois Martin, Global Marketing Director, BOBST, to discover why are returning to the next FuturePrint event.