Al Keene, President of IMI, introduces the Ink Jet Developers Conference 2005
Stewart Partridge, Managing Director of Web Consulting, gave one of the opening addresses
Marco Boer, IT Strategies introduced the concept of 'coopetition' as a way of moving ink jet into mainstream applications
Paul Morgavi, President of Impika, described the issues of integration
Raghu Das, Managing Director of IDTechEx, was our final keynote speaker and gave a great outline of the growth of printable electronics and RFID
Alongside the conference is a mini-exhibition, where developers met suppliers during the many breaks and receptions
The food at the Crowne Plaza was magnificent, so lunch was taken at a leisurely pace!
Many suppliers used the Developers Conference to launch new products. Here Clayton Sampson of UV Integration shows the MicroZero ultra-small UV lamp alongside the previous smallest
Alan Mills of Nordson UV shows the new TinyCure water-cooled UV lamp
Bruce Morgan of iTi shows off the largest piece of kit at the event, their materials deposition system, which they sold at the show
Suppliers came from around the world to Geneva. Here ink suppliers Triangle Digital show off their wares
Tamotsu Wako and Takeo Arai of Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic showing print samples of their new UV cure inks.
New Swedish integrator fCubic showed their t20 rapid prototyping device that uses ink jet to manufacture components in small volumes.
Printing on to glass using hybrid UV inks shown by Mario Carluccio, Aellora Digital.
How do you demonstrate the high conductivity of ink jet printed metals? Use it for part of a model racetrack. CIT was giving away champagne for fastest lap times.
Several new piezo printheads were launched at the Developers Conference. Here Ray Veillet, PicoJet holds the new PJ-N256 printhead.
Dave Wheeler of Trident Industrial Inkjet with the new 768Jet printhead with a 100mm (4”) print height.
Mark Elsbernd of Ricoh Printing Systems with the single pass, multihead module
Mr Ohno, President of KonicaMinolta Ink Jet Technologies gives us a song
To celebrate their 10th year and new corporate identity Xennia treated the whole conference to an evening on the lake!
"Two more steps back Tom". Who shouted that! Surely not Spectra?
Alan Mills and guitar took us through all the old favorites in the bar