This conference focuses on digital printing and decoration applications, plus the use of ink jet for manufacturing. Major users and product vendors will discuss requirements for a wide range of new appliactions for digital printing. Leading industry experts will address the technological developments that will enable these requirements to be met.

The up and coming range of digital processes have reached the stage where they are beginning to make a major impact on traditional technology, in particular enabling and aiding the development of new supply chains.

BENEFITS OF CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

• Learn about the market trends and requirements that will effect the future of a wide range of industrial printing applications

• Hear the latest technological developments that will enable these requirements to be achieved

• Gain knowledge to aid your company’s strategic planning

• Establish personal contacts with the leading experts and innovators in the industry

• Participate in interactive sessions and informal discussions on the future market and technological development of the production printing industry

DIGITAL PRINTING – CHANGING THE FACE OF PRODUCTION PRINTING

EMERGING APPLICATIONS FOR INK JET TECHNOLOGY
Tom Ashley, Principal, BIBLIO-tec, Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA

• Emerging Applications for Ink Jet Printing
• Printing applications
• Applications that resemble printing
• Beyond printing

THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL COLOUR
John Doyan, Managing Director Europe, Scitex Digital Printing, St-Prex, Switzerland

• Cost, value, & efficiencies of digital colour
• Failures of digital colour to deliver on the promise
• Introduction of Business Colour™
• Background of business and technology
• Customer case studies show how Business Colour™ can deliver the promise
• VersaMark cost of operation data compared to available monochrome and colour printers
• How VersaMark delivers on the promise

DRIVING PAGES TO DIGITAL PRESSES
Erwin Busselot, Director Marketing Europe, HP, Indigo Division, Maastricht, The Netherlands

• Integrating the supply chain
- Publishing expertise of printers
- Needs of corporate customers
- Marketing & advertising agencies
• Fundamental choices
- CtP, DI or digital?
• HP Indigo digital presses
• Digital Offset colour technology
• Applications
- Short-run
- On-demand
- Variable data printing

DICOWEB: DIGITAL CHANGEOVER HIGH SPEED SHORT RUN PRODUCTION PRINTING
Dr Andreas Feil, Head of Division, DICOweb Product Management, MAN Roland, Augsburg, Germany

• DICOweb – forget your plates
• Market – segmentation
• System integration
• Format variability
• Structure of DICOweb platform
• Image management

COLOUR PRODUCTION PRINTING - QUALITY/PRICE SURVEY
Hans Andriese, Senior Partner, Andriese Consultancy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• "Mystery shopping" digital print
- Pan-European
- Different equipment brands
• Results of survey
- Variations in pricing
- Variations in quality
• Print buyers focus group
• Practical results and realities of sourcing digital print

7:00 p.m. Reception

Thursday, October 31^st, 2002

9:00 a.m. Session 2

DIGITAL PRINTING FOR PACKAGING & DISPLAY

INDUSTRIAL MARKETS FOR DIGITAL PRINTING
Mark Hanley, President, IT Strategies, Hanover, Massachusetts, USA

• A workable definition of industrial markets
• Is digital printing ready?
• What will users accept?
• Kick-starting a digital packaging market - How?

HYBRID WORKFLOWS – DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE TECHNOLOGIES COMPLEMENTING EACH OTHER
Amir Veresh, Scitex Vision

• Wide format market
- Present analogue & digital presence
- Market structure
• Applications
- The overlap usage of analogue and digital systems for same applications
- Unique applications of each technology
- Gaps of applications (mass customization issues)
• Technologies specific characteristics
• Can we have it all?
• The hybrid workflow
- RTS – take sheets printed digitally for additional processing using screen printing line
- STS – Take sheets printed using analogue printing for digital additional processing
• Screen printing screening effect
• Hybrid systems

DIGITAL PRINTING IN PACKAGING & LABELS
Dirk Van Thillo, Director Marketing, Xeikon International, Lier, Belgium

• Solutions for digital labelling & packaging
• Successful applications
• Short runs
• Versioning
• Variable information

DIGITAL PRINTING FOR THE SIGNMAKING INDUSTRY
Elaine Pullen, President, Gerber Scientific Products, South Windsor, Connecticut, USA

• What does a typical signmaker do?
• How has digital printing changed signmaking?
• Thermal and ink jet systems
• Media requirements
• System integration
• Future requirements

THE FUTURE OF COLOUR CONTROL IN DIGITAL PRINTING APPLICATIONS
Marco Cattarozzi, Gretag Macbeth

• More user-friendliness in colour control
• Connecting e-commerce applications with the colour control of the
• printers
• Special problems and issues with ink jet
• Automatic and dynamic colour management, with (almost) no user
• interaction
• Project examples
• Colour management and colour control in two years time

1:00 p.m. Luncheon
2:30 p.m. Session 3

DIGITAL DECORATION

THE.FACTORY REPLACES CONVENTIONAL SAMPLE PRESSES IN THE DECORATIVE LAMINATE MARKET
Jasmine Geerinckx, Manager Decorative Systems, Dotrix, Gent, Belgium

• The decorative laminate market
• Who is Chiyoda Europe?
• Conventional sampling workflow
• Digital InSpiration workflow
• Benefits and cost savings
• Summary

DIGITAL DIELESS - BRILLIANCE ON DEMAND
Robert Goodfellow, Project Leader, API Foils Ltd, Livingston, Scotland

• High-gloss digital metallic effects
• Why digital dieLESS? - How it works
• Developing the concept
• Prototype print engine
• Potential markets, key applications
• Future developments

HIGH PRODUCTIVITY THERMAL PRINTING FOR COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND DECORATIVE APPLICATIONS
Harry Schofield, President & CEO, Atlantek, Inc., Rhode Island, USA

• Thermal Printing Market Update
• Fit for Thermal Printing in Commercial, Industrial and Decorative Applications
• Recent Advances in High Productivity Thermal Technology
- media
- printing systems
• Update on Products and Applications - Some real success stories
- Ticket, Tag, and Label Printing
- Signs, Banners, Screen Printing, Commercial Graphics
- Decorative and Rigid Media Printing - Mass Personalization
- Photo Identification and Security Printing
- High Speed Digital Photograph Printing
• Competitive Summary vs. Competing Technologies
• Future Trends

POP - THE FIRST DIGITAL COLOUR PRESS FOR PLASTIC CARD
Paul Morgavi, Manufacturing Equipment Department Manager, Gemplus, Gemenos, France

• Plastic card manufacturing state of the art
• What smart card manufacturers are looking for?
• Digital printing for plastic cards
• POP, the first digital plastic card press
• What will be the next step?

NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING
Ronald J. Beard, DuPont Textiles, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

• Current uses of digital textile printing
• Advantages over screen printing
• Market opportunity for digitally printed textiles
• User needs in different market segments
• Digital printed textile samples

7:00 p.m. Reception

Friday, November 1st, 2002

9:00 a.m. Session 3

DIGITAL PRINTING AS PART OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS


JET TO MANUFACTURE
Alan Hudd, Managing Director, Xennia Technology, Royston, England

• Overview of interest in using ink jet to:
- Decorate products
- Revolutionise manufacturing processes
- Create products
• Industrial solutions
- It's more than print heads, ink and integration
• Ink jet printing difficult materials
- Pigments
- Phosphors
- Metals
- Paints
• Key ink jet chemistry platforms
- Solvent-based inks
- UV cure chemistries
• Applications
- Automotive
- Electronic
- Displays
- Industrial product decoration

NOVEL DISPENSING & DECORATION APPLICATIONS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC DOD INK JET
Per Frost, Spectra, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

• Opportunity overview
• PLED-based Flat Panel Displays (FPD)
• Requirements for digital manufacture of FPDs
• Design of printheads for FPD manufacture
• From laboratory to full scale production
• Future directions

UV CURING ON DELICATE SUBSTRATES
Pat Keogh, Product Manager, Nordson UV Ltd, Slough, England

• Why curing on delicate substrates is a problem
• Other curing issues, particularly with ink jet
• Nordson’s solution
• How it works

ELECTROSTATIC CONTROL OF POWDER COATINGS ON TABLETS
Peter Mason, VP & General Manager,
Torrey Pines Research, Rochester, New York, USA

• Predictably coating to a required coating weight & thickness
• Issues with "industrialising" the developer design
• Tablet handling issues
• Problem of uniformly coating a non-flat surface
• A new theory of field collapse
• Using one housing for many powders

1:00 p.m. Luncheon & Adjournment