Barcelona 2004

The European Ink Jet Conference continues to attract large numbers of delegates who came to hear the latest developments, both markets and technology.

Top speakers
All of our speakers did a great job and overall scores were very high. The top 5 presentations rated by attendees were:

1 Carole Noutary, Sericol
2 Dr Jaewoo Chung
3 Peter Walshe, SunJet
4 Paul Morgavi, Impika
5 James Gill & Marc Torrey, Spectra

Our exhibition area, where attendees could display their sales material and samples free of charge, was well utilised, with networking continuing through the breaks and the evening receptions.

Al Keene
Al Keene, President of IMI opening the 12th Annual European Ink Jet Conference
Justin Haywood
Justin Haywood of CIR gave his insight of the ink jet industry from the financial community
Stewart Partridge
Stewart Partridge presented the first results from Web Consulting's latest European Printer Survey
Mark Hanley
Mark Hanley of IT Strategies discussed the commercial issues of the emerging single pass industrial markets and introduced us to the 'prism of risk'
Rob Beeson
HP's Rob Beeson gave us a great insight into the technology within both HP and competitor's printheads
Paul Morgavi
Paul Morgavi of Impika described some new custom printing applications, such as printing on pencil sets
Alan Hudd
Dr Alan Hudd, Xennia Technology, gave the first public disclosure of the conductive ink jet technology
Dr Chung
Dr Chung of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Scinence and Technology showed his MEMS piezo printhead
Chung Willis
Dr Chung of Samsung AIST and Mike Willis, MD of IMI Europe - the conference organiser
Andi Edan
Andi Edan of CGate gave an account of the pitfalls that can occur when dealing with China
Bar 1
'Can I 'ave 'nother one mate?' No problem at IMI's receptions
Ham
Everyone enjoys themselves at IMI conferences, even the competition
Alan Mills
Alan Mills of Nordson got everyone singing and hopping
Ohno
Ohno-san from Konica Minolta celebrated becoming General Manager of their newly-formed division. Having forgotten to bring any glamorous companions from Konica he had to borrow from Xennia.
Fund raising
Ohno-san gave us a rendition of his new division's company song - 'We shall overcome', generating some income in the process.
Good story
Sharing a story - IMI's receptions are the perfect networking environment where friendships are made.
Bar closed
The bar closed half an hour ago but they haven't realised yet....
If you would like a high resolution version of any of these photos then email Mike Willis at mike@imieurope.com