SICPA and FuturePrint are pleased to announce its partnership for 2021 where SICPA will be participating in upcoming virtual events and online communications that will bring combined expertise in providing innovate solutions in support of today’s leading printing technology.

In this article, we report results from 12 months of activity of building the FuturePrint Community during lockdown by running 4 large virtual events, publishing reports, surveys, hosting webinars, talks, and sharing over 100 articles.

Challenge - How to reduce operating expenses and increase output with clean energy? InDeco Serigrafia, located near Milan in Italy, stands out in the screen printing market for luxury applications with its 30 years of experience and constant search for new, innovative solutions. UV LED curing technology is more accessible than ever and it is bringing a host of advanced printing capabilities. Indeco did several retrofits switching from old UV mercury curing systems to a Phoseon high-performance UV LED solution. Let’s see why.

Today, all the major brands are requiring their suppliers to deliver more sustainable printing practices. The environmental benefits of UV LED curing in the printing process have proven to be a much more sustainable process compared to traditional mercury UV curing. This article will discuss some of the sustainability aspects of UV LED curing compared to mercury UV and why so many printers are upgrading to UV LED.

The Atlas Software Suite, developed by Global Inkjet Systems, has continued to evolve over the years, but remains a unique modular software solution that can be used for a range of digital printing software applications. A collaboration with Esko is opening new doors for customers through bespoke solutions and enhanced productivity, but with the GIS Atlas open platform and customisable features, why partner with Esko?

Leadership really comes to the fore in times of crisis. You tend to see the true mettle of people when they are truly up against it. It’s pretty easy to be a leader in the good times, but when things get tough, then a leader either rises up and leads, or they tend to disappear into the background.

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. Mary Ann Rowan, Chief Experience Officer and Jonathan Malone-McGrew, Senior Director of Engagement, Solimar Systems, will be joining the leadership discussion with a focus on how they have guided and supported customers during COVID, the importance of strong relationships with customers and partners and much more.

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. David Tomer, General Manager of HP Scitex division, will be expanding on HP’s sustainability actions that were at the centre of the company’s FuturePrint Conference session.

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. The possibilities of digital inkjet, particularly those that were once solely the domain of analogue processes, are growing all the time. Doug Edwards, Chief Technology Officer, EFI, gives us a taste of EFI’s focus ahead of his session at the event.

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. In this article, Stephen Tunnicliffe-Wilson, CEO, Inca Digital, offers some insight into Inca’s journey from graphics to packaging ahead of his session at the upcoming event.

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. John Corrall, Managing Director of Industrial Inkjet Ltd is an inkjet veteran, with 34 years in the business under his belt. Working at Domino, Elmjet, Videojet, Xaar, Xennia, before founding Industrial Inkjet in 2005, John held a number of R&D and engineering roles, as well as service and manufacturing, and credits the high amount of field work in his experience as being key to the founding of IIJ. We caught up with John ahead of his participation in the event.

Back in 2012, Frazer and I ran the first EcoPrint Show in a converted railway station in Berlin. The focus was we sustainability, and at the time we thought that sustainability would become the most important defining factor for business and life. Sadly, this didn’t turn out to be the case back then for a number of reasons too numerous to delve into here. Regardless, the event made a big impression on the market and we pulled leaders together to focus on this topic.

The packaging industry is at a crossroads. With the combination of an unpredictable external environment, ever-increasing requirements for shorter runs and faster time to market and a surge in technological innovation, there is understandably some new opportunities to grasp for all converters across the globe. At BOBST, we believe there is a clear path ahead – a profound transformation of the entire industry built on four pillars: Connectivity, Digitalization, Automation and Sustainability.

Will everything in the future be thin-film inkjet heads?

As innovation in inkjet technology continues un-phased by the global pandemic, and as the world begins to rise up again as COVID-19 begins a welcomed retreat from society, at the FuturePrint Leaders Summit, we ask will everything in the future be thin-film inkjet heads?

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.