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The first publication to cover the theme Desktop Publishing (DTP) in Brazil and South America, the Desktop Publishing Magazine has 19 years in the market. The main focus is the Graphic Arts market, basically, prepress, press, finish systems and now the newest technologies like Digital Presses, VDP, Large Format Systems and others.
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Lyra’s Hard Copy Observer and Hard Copy Supplies Journals deliver news and analysis that imaging industry leaders need to track and anticipate changes in the hardware and consumable markets. Lyra’s advisory and consulting services focus on your industry with unrivaled analysis and perspective. For a special IMI offer on Lyra’s journals contact Carolyn O’Donnel at +1 617 454 2627 or codonnel@lyra.com
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Mechatronica Magazine is the leading magazine for the advanced machine and system building industry in Belgium and The Netherlands. Focus of this monthly magazine is engineers, technical managers and decision makers at machine builders. The Benelux countries are traditionally strong in advanced systems development. Agfa, Océ, OTB and Stork are among the Benelux companies that develop inkjet systems. Total turnover of high-tech OEM’s in this area is € 35 billion.
www.mechatronicamagazine.nl

A free monthly magazine dedicated to the Microtechnologies that Yole Développement tracks in its market research activities. It provides a clear snapshot of the evolution of the business. Supplements add in-depth focus on 3D packaging, PV Manufacturing, MEMS and Microfluidics on a rotating basis. Similar content can be found on the news portal
www.i-micronews.com

Packaging & Converting Essentials is an online resource for professionals in the packaging, graphical, converting, related equipment and supply chain industries. The target group is everyone with a professional interest in packaging, graphical, converting and related equipment industries, including processes that make these industries tick. www.packagingessentials.com

The worldwide Photo Imaging News team, based in Bonita Springs, Florida, USA, publishes international industry periodicals in Chinese and English. In addition the team offers global market reports and statistics/forecasting as well as consulting, covering picture-taking and picture-making.
www.photo-news.com

SIP is a specialized magazine for screen printing, digital printing, sign making and advertising techniques published 8 times a year providing updated reports about tests, trade exhibitions, brand new products and innovations as well as interesting background knowledge for printers and sign makers.
www.sip-online.de


In Latin, “Veritas et Visus” means “Truth and Vision”. Our mission is to provide readers with pertinent, timely and affordable information about the flat-panel display industry, with the goal of bringing together news, interviews, conference summaries, tutorials, and analysis. Veritas et Visus offers five specialty newsletters covering Flexible Displays, 3D Displays; Touch Screens; High Resolution; and Display Standards.
www.veritasetvisus.com
INK JET TECH TALK
HELPING YOU DEVELOP BETTER PRODUCTS Free tutorials for Ink Jet Technology Showcase registrants!
8:30 am Registration opens
9:00 am INK JET TECH TALK

A series of optional tutorials at no extra cost for registrants to the Ink Jet Technology Showcase 2009. Listen to our experts discuss some of the latest scientific findings and techniques - information that you can use immediately. Just come along to our fast-track registration from 8:30 am onwards to pick up the speaker notes and your badge!
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE PRINTING PERFORMANCE OF INK JET FLUIDS
Dr Graham Martin, Director, Inkjet Research Group, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

• The timescales of ink jet
• Ways of seeing
• Jets to drops and satellites
• Shear and stretch
• The invisible fluid properties
• Polymers and particles
• The impact of surface energy

Dr Graham Martin is currently Director for the Inkjet Research Centre at Cambridge University's Institute for Manufacturing. The Inkjet Research Centre was established in 2005 and is funded by the EPSRC and a consortium of UK companies interested in the ink jet process and it coordinates researchers in Cambridge and several partner universities to study the fundamental behaviour of ink jet systems. He began his ink jet career by joining Cambridge Consultants (CCL) where he became Group Leader of the Printing Systems Group. In 1986, he was a founder member of a new venture, Elmjet, developing continuous jet array printer products. He joined Videojet in 1993, managing teams of engineers in Chicago and Cambridge developing  the technology and processes for ink jet and laser printing. www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/pp/inkjet

INK TESTING FOR INDUSTRIAL INK JET PRINTHEADS
Dr. Olivier Morel, Applications Development Manager, Xennia Technology Ltd, Letchworth, UK

• Initial ink trials – what to look for and how to select the best ink
• Ink testing methodologies
• Typical test equipment and set-up
- Characterisation
- Print quality analysis
• It doesn’t jet – is it the ink or head?
• Differences between thermal & piezo ink testing


Dr. Morel joined Xennia Technology Ltd in 2006 as Print Technologist and more recently,  Applications Development Manager, responsible for all aspects of Xennia’s ink jet ink and applications development programmes.

Dr. Morel graduated with an MSc in Chemistry from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Lille, France and has a Ph.D. in colour chemistry from Heriot-Watt University, UK.  Olivier is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Dyers and Colourists. www.xennia.com

KEEPING IT WORKING – NOZZLE MAINTENANCE
Mike Willis, Managing Director, Pivotal Resources, Cambridge, UK

• Why do nozzles get dirty?
• How does this affect jetting performance?
• Cleaning methods
- Wiping with blades or belts
- Purging
- Washing
- New ideas from the patent literature
• Why automate?

Mr. Willis founded Pivotal Resources, a consultancy in the digital printing industry, in 1995. He has experience in a wide range of technologies and markets including drop-on-demand and continuous ink jet printing, electro-photographic technology, greyscale and colour reproduction methods and light sensitive materials.

Prior to founding Pivotal Resources, Mike was Director of Electronic Printing at Meta Generics. Mr. Willis was a founder member of Xaar - a spin-off company from Cambridge Consultants where Mr. Willis spent ten years working in a number of roles, culminating as Group Leader of Non-Impact Printing. Before that, he spent six years at Gestetner developing photocopiers.

Mr. Willis graduated from the Polytechnic of Central London with an honours degree in Photographic Sciences. www.pivotal.co.uk

MECHATRONIC SYSTEM ISSUES IN INK JET DEVELOPMENTS
Werner Van de Wynckel, VdW-Consulting bvba, Wolvertem, Belgium

• Scaling up from SoHo to industrial
• What are the image-quality needs and what does that mean for system accuracy?
• Types of motion systems and which to choose
• Real-time aspects of printing
• How to know the relative position between printhead and substrate accurately
• What can software & firmware do to help?
Werner Van de Wynckel is a Neutral and Freelance R&D Inkjet consultant with over 20 years of experience in development of high-tech multi-disciplinary systems. With a strong system approach methodology he supports R&D departments during feasibility and development of new printing engines or -processes. His track record spans from miniaturization in print-head development to project management of large and innovative inkjet systems. www.vdw-consulting.com

INK JET TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE 2009

Tuesday June 2, 2009

12:00 noon Registration Opens


2:00 - 8:30 pm Technology Suppliers Exhibits Open

2:00 pm Opening Session

INTRODUCTION TO INK JET TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIERS SHOWCASE 2009
Alvin G. Keene, President, Information Management Institute, Inc., Carrabassett Valley, Maine, USA
Showcase Chairman: Mike Willis, Managing Director, Pivotal Resources, Cambridge, UK

INK JET'S LONG TERM FUTURE
Mark Hanley, President, IT Strategies, Hanover, Massachusetts, USA

• Inkjet already leads the industry in growth
• Inkjet comes closest to being a universal print technology
• Inkjet’s developing positioning between the industrial and document printing sectors
• Developing vendor strategies


Mark Hanley has more than 21 years of experience in the electronic printing industry. A technology visionary, he specialises in identifying new markets for digital colour printing technologies. In addition to conducting research and consulting, he travels extensively around the world, facilitating partnerships and strategic alliances between manufacturers in the US, Europe and Japan.

Having lived in different countries of the EC and working in Europe and North America, Mr. Hanley gained extensive experience in multiple aspects of the electronic print market. An honors graduate in history from the University of Manchester, England, he is fluent in written and spoken French, German and Italian.

3:00 pm
TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIERS’ PRESENTATIONS

As the world’s leading supplier of UV light sources for ink jet applications, and focused primarily on ink jet, Integration Technology offers a wide range of standard UV products in addition to bespoke design partnerships for Ink Jet developers.

Contact: Simon Gibbs
Business Development Manager
Tel: +44 1869 233611
Fax: +44 1869 233599
sgibbs@uvintegration.com
www.uvintegration.com

Integration Technology Ltd
115-119 Heyford Park
Upper Heyford
Oxfordshire OX25 5HA
UK


Xennia is the world’s leading chemistry driven industrial inkjet solutions provider. Xennia provides a complete R&D contract service to support the development of fluids and print platforms for new applications. As a technology enabler, Xennia delivers printer and ink production line solutions to OEMs across a wide range of industrial markets. Xennia is part of Royal TenCate.

Contact: Hannah O’Brien
Sales Manager
Tel: +44 1462 705220
Fax: +44 1462 705221
hobrien@xennia.com
www.xennia.com
Xennia Technology Ltd
Monroe House
Works Road
Letchworth
Hertfordshire SG6 1LN
UK

iTi has a 17-year track record of designing, developing and manufacturing ink jet deposition and printing systems for a wide range of industrial applications. Our family of Lab2FabSM products offer the ability to do extensive R&D and process development, move to pilot line production and then transition to full scale fabrication.

Contact: Debbie Thorp
VP EMEA Operations
Tel: +44 1223 422223
Fax: +44 1223 420844
dthorp@iticorp.com
www.iticorp.com
imaging Technology international
St John’s Innovation Centre
Cowley Road
Cambridge CB4 0WS
UK

ImageXpert Inc. is a world leader in vision-based inspection systems and solutions for digital printer manufacturers, ink formulators and jetted deposition system developers. From generalised inspection systems to more specialised systems such as line-scan camera systems for high speed nozzle plate inspection or JetXpert for analysis of drops-in-flight, companies rely on ImageXpert systems in R&D and production.

Contact: Yair Kipman
President
Tel: +1 603 598 2500
Fax: +1 603 598 2687
ix@imagexpert.com
www.imagexpert.com
ImageXpert Inc.
460 Amherst Street
Nashua
NH 03063
USA

Collins Ink formulates and produces water, solvent, oil-based and speciality inks for thermal (HP), CIJ (Kodak, Versamark, Domino, Videojet) and DOD piezo (Spectra, Xaar) inkjet technologies. These inkjet inks are utilised mainly in the direct mail, transactional and packaging markets. All we do is make inkjet ink.

Contact: Roger Oberg
Sales
Tel: +1 513 948 9000
Fax: +1 513 948 8900
reoberg@msn.com
www.collinsink.com
Collins Ink Corporation
1201 Edison Drive
Cincinnati
OH 45216
USA

Agfa Integrated Inkjet Solutions develops, manufactures and supplies customised inkjet inks and fluids for many types of systems (sign & display, packaging, textile printing, document printing, PCB manufacturing) next to a close cooperation with system integrators for in-line processes.

Contact: Marc Graindourze
Business Development Manager
Tel: +32 3 444 3871
marc.graindourze@agfa.com
www.agfa.com/en/inkjet_solutions/about_us/
Agfa
Septestraat 27
B-2640 Mortsel
Belgium

EXFO’s Life Sciences & Industrial Division has been delivering light curing solutions for over 25 years. A global leader in UV technology, our new Excelerate line of products applies our extensive light curing expertise to high-value application solutions for manufacturers in the digital printing industry to put you in control.

Contact: Nidal Abbas
SR Product Manager
Tel: +1 905 821 2600
Fax: +1 905 821 2055
excelerate@exfo.com
www.exfo-excelerate.com
Exfo Life Sciences & Industrial Division
Argentia Road
Mississauga
Ontario L5N 6H7
Canada
INK JET TECHNOLOGY IN THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE
Tom Ashley, Pivotal Resources USA, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

• Applications today and tomorrow
- Biomedical – skin and bones?
- Photovoltaics – the clean power movement
- Printed electronics – from conductive tracks to ICs
- Printed displays – could we print the whole display?
- Other emerging applications
• The impact of competing printing technologies
• How can ink jet win?

Tom Ashley is Director, Pivotal Resources USA, which he founded in late 2002. Tom has worked in electronic printing and imaging for more than 35 years, both in research and development and in marketing. He is widely known as an industry expert, and has spoken at more than 100 industry conferences.

Mr Ashley holds an AB degree in Mathematics and Chemistry from Transylvania University and an MS degree in Physical Organic Chemistry from Marshall University, with additional graduate work in management at the University of Kentucky.

7:00 – 8:30 pm Reception in Exhibit Area
Join us for some local beers, wines and canapes at this hosted reception. Spend time in discussions with suppliers, or circulate with industry colleagues and contacts.

Wednesday June 3, 2009
9:00 am - 8:30 pm Technology Suppliers Exhibits Open
9:00 am session BEGINS

THE VIEW OF DIGITAL PRINTING FROM THE COMMERCIAL PRINTING SECTOR - WILL THE WORLD BELONG TO INK JET?
Laurel Brunner, Managing Director, Digital Dots, Burwash, East Sussex, UK

• Digital Printing & Commercial Printing: Taking the Longer View
• Digital transfer is inevitable
• Technology transfer is not exclusive to digital printing technologies
• Electronic bridges and standard data formats are helping to erode market sector boundaries.
• Digital applications and business model evolution
• Drivers for change in traditional models: digital communications, web to print, business system integration
• What does the market want?

Laurel Brunner started her career in 1978 as an accountant for a printing company. Since then she has worked exclusively in the prepress and publishing industries. She is Managing Director of the international consulting group Digital Dots (www.digitaldots.org), publishers of Spindrift, an independent, subscriber supported journal for the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries.

Laurel Brunner provides private consulting and editorial services to a wide cross section of publishers and industry associations. Her work regularly appears in newspapers and magazines around the world, and she has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences in Europe, the United States and Asia.

9:45 am
TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIERS’ PRESENTATIONS

Phoseon Technology is the world leader in providing UV LED sources for curing inks, coatings, adhesives and many other materials. Semiconductor Light Matrices (SLMs)TM, pioneered by Phoseon, address the complexities of heat management and micro-optics with the highest light output.

Contact: Rob Karsten
Director European Sales & Marketing
Tel: +44 1799 599071
Fax: +1 503 439 6408
rob_karsten@phoseon.com
www.phoseon.com
Phoseon Technology
7425 NW Evergreen Parkway
Hillsboro
OR 97124
USA

TTP is a 300-strong science and engineering company based near Cambridge, UK. We offer printer development services and the MeteorTM product range. Meteor drives most leading 3rd-party ink jet print heads and are incorporated into many types of OEM print systems.

Contact: Clive Ayling
Consultant
Tel: +44 1763 262626
Fax: +44 1763 261582
enquiries@ttp.com
www.ttpmeteor.com
TTP
Melbourn Science Park
Melbourn
Royston SG8 6EE
UK

Olivetti I-Jet is one of the few companies worldwide credited with a proprietary thermal ink-jet technology. Olivetti’s proposals are customised printheads, inks and SW applications for Industrial Printing Solutions, and ink-jet spotting tools, Lab-on-Chips and detection instruments for Life Science applications.

Contact: Roberta Sirio
VP Business Development
Tel: +39 0125 522367 10015
Fax: +39 0125 522368
r.sirio@olivetti.com
www.olivetti.com
Olivetti S.p.A.
Via Jervis, 77
Ivrea (TO)
Italy

Impika is a French company known as a world leader in digital printing for the industry. Based on a high mastering of the DOD inkjet technology, Impika develops, manufactures and markets worldwide innovative customer-focused complete printing solutions addressing different markets. Impika’s unique know-how and expertise are largely approved by the major actors of the printing industry.
Contact: Paul Morgavi
President & CEO
Tel: +33 4 42 62 43 00
Fax: +33 4 42 62 42 99
paul.morgavi@impika.com
www.impika.com
IMPIKA
135 rue du Dirigeable
13400 Aubagne
France

ARDEJE has a strong knowledge and background in inkjet printing. We design and manufacture custom-built printers based on customers’ specifications by integrating printheads for industrial applications. We are now taking advantage of our 10-year printing expertise by developing opportunities and new markets : printed electronics, smart textiles, solar cells, ...

Contact: Pascal Pierron
CEO
Tel: +33 475 782 660
Fax: +33 475 782 669
pierron@ardeje.com
www.ardeje.com
ARDEJE
4, rue Georges Auric
26000 Valence
France

CERADROP is a unique company offering complete solutions of micro-fabrication of 3D components by inkjet printing predominantly devoted to ceramic industry (thick film, multilayers, etc). Thanks to their know-how widely spread on all the technological aspects of this process, CERADROP offers to its customers a new added value printing technology (special equipments, inks and innovative softwares) as well as a wide spectrum of services to accompany them in their projects.
Contact: Rémi Noguera
CEO
Tel: +33 555 382 696
Fax: +33 555 381 751
r_noguera@ceradrop.fr
www.ceradrop.fr
CERADROP
1 Avenue d’Ester
87069 Limoges
France

SunJet is a leading global supplier of premium, high-quality ink jet inks for industrial and commercial print applications. SunJet offers strong technical capabilities and industry knowledge by leveraging the market strength of its parent company, Sun Chemical Corporation, a world leader in products and services for print.

Contact: Peter Walshe
Business Development Manager
Tel: +44 1761 414471
Fax: +44 1761 416609
peter.walshe@eu.sunchem.com
www.sunjetink.com
SunJet
Norton Hill
Midsomer Norton
Bath
Somerset BA3 4RT
UK
1:00 pm Lunch
Join us for a buffet lunch of starters and salads, a selection of poultry, meat, fish and vegatarian dishes, and delicious desserts. Join in some lively discussions and talk informally with other registrants
2:30 pm session BEGINS
FROM PHOTO TO INK JET SPECIALIST BY CONTINUOUS INNOVATION
Michael Lackner, Business Unit Manager, Durst Phototechnik DIT GmbH, Lienz, Austria

• 70 years of advanced imaging
• Continuous innovation has changed the company throughout its history
• Long-term survival by reinvention based around technology life cycles
• Our self understanding and product portfolio in the 1980’s, 1990’s and today
• The story of three different Durst companies

Michael Lackner is business unit manager for the Durst Rho series of UV inkjet printers. He has been involved in the development and marketing of all the latest models, which combine exceptional print quality and high productivity. He joined Durst in 2000. Durst, leaders in imaging solutions since 1936, develops and manufactures a complete range of digital products for the graphic, photographic and industrial markets, including the industry’s leading Rho series of large format UV inkjet printers and the Lambda and Theta direct digital photo laser printers.

Durst operates out of two state-of-the-art factories in Brixen (South Tyrol / Italy) and Lienz (East Tyrol / Austria).

Amica Software, Inc. and its principles have specialized in software, hardware and system development of inkjet technologies and integration services since 1995. Combined with Printer Control Software and application software, NuviJET PCS delivers unparalleled opportunities for OEMs to build wide-format graphics printers, UV inkjet printers and one-pass inkjet head array digital press for a wide variety of industrial applications.

Contact: Jim Chang
President
Tel: +1 949 300 7213
Fax: +1 714 730 8079
jim@amicasoftware.com
www.nuvijet.com
Amica Software, Inc.
12 Runningbrook
Irvine
CA 92620
USA

Xaar is a market-focused technology leader, driving the expansion of inkjet printing into targeted industry sectors. Xaar’s innovative technology offers OEM customers and licensees commercial advantage through product differentiation, productivity, and fast time-to-market.

Contact: Elena Knight
Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: +44 1223 423663
Fax: +44 1223 423590
elena.knight@xaar.com
www.xaar.com
Xaar plc
316 Science Park
Cambridge
CB4 0XR
UK

Technical and marketing consultancy covering all forms of digital printing and imaging, but particularly high-speed presses and ink jet. Publisher of Directions, a bi-monthly analysis of ink jet patents.

Contact: Mike Willis
Managing Director
Tel: +44 1223 235900
Fax: +44 1223 235901
mike@pivotal.co.uk
www.pivotal.co.uk
Pivotal Resources Ltd
11 Glebe Way
Histon
Cambridge CB24 4HJ
UK

Honghua Digital is a high-tech company specialising in R&D, manufacturing, distribution and service support of digital ink jet printing technology and equipment. It provides textile printing, carpet printing, sign and graphic printing and dropwatcher for ink jet.
Contact: Jiang Yu
Engineer
Tel: +86 5718 8864 124
Fax: +86 5718 8856 333
yujiang0515@yahoo.com.cn
www.hzhh.cn
Hangzhou Honghua Digital Technology
No 3911 Binsheng Road, Binjiang District
Hangzhou
310052
China

Wherever sophisticated mixing, dispersion, and wet grinding challenges exist, you can count on Buhler to supply comprehensive solutions. Buhler provides media mills and roller mills for a wide range of viscosities and target particle sizes from micro to nanometre
Contact: Mr. Cornel Mendler
Head of Marketing & Product Management
Tel: +41 71 955 1343
Fax: +41 71 955 3149
cornel.mendler@buhlergroup.com
www.buhlergroup.com
Bühler AG
CH – 9240 Uzwil

Sensient Imaging Technologies has unsurpassed global expertise in inkjet inks and dyes and can act as a trusted, experienced partner to compound proprietary ink, a second source when demand exceeds your internal capacity, or as a development partner to bring innovative product ideas to fruition. No matter what role we play, we deliver superior value, unparalleled industry expertise and comprehensive product development assistance.
Contact: Bryan Palphreyman
Inkjet Consultant -
Sensient Imaging Technologies
Tel: +44 1553 669444
Mobile: +44 7876 790509
palphreyman@gmail.com
www.sensient-tech.com
Sensient Colors UK Ltd.
Oldmedow Road
Hardwick Industrial Estate
King’s Lynn
Norfolk, PE304LA
UK

LABELMATE manufactures quality Label Dispensers, Rewinders, Unwinders, Slitters, Core Chucks and Printer Mechanisms. LABELMATE has manufacturing operations in USA and in Belgium. Every LABELMATE-manufactured product has a 5 or 3-Year Parts and Labor Limited Warranty.
Contact: John Deckmyn
Sales Manager
Tel: +32 2 375 69 60
Fax: +32 2 375 38 96
Email: john@labelmate.com
www.labelmate.com

LABELMATE LLC.
69 avenue Alphonse XIII
Brussels 1180
Belgium
DEVELOPMENT OF INK JET PRINTING IN ASIA PACIFIC REGION
Stewart Partridge, Web Consulting Ltd

• Economic and geographical challenges
• The rise of Asian manufacturers - their strengths and limitations
• Can European and American manufacturers succeed in Asia - and where?
• Future challenges and opportunities


Mr Partridge is currently Managing Director of Web Consulting, a UK-based consultancy to the screen and digital printing industries. Formerly, Mr Partridge was for the Sales Director for Asia-Pacific for Nazdar, following on from OEM and business development director. He was the prime instigator of the acquisition of the Lyson digital ink business. Prior to that, for 13 years Mr Partridge spent 13 years managing a global consulting business for the digital printing industry.

Mr Partridge has written more than 25 reports on the development and evolution of digital printing, and provided services to most leading brands of digital printing equipment, inks and hardware.

7:00-8:30 pm Reception in Exhibit Area