Wednesday November 7, 2007

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Conference Registration

2:00 p.m. Opening session

INTRODUCTION TO 15TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN INK JET PRINTING CONFERENCE
Alvin G. Keene, President, Information Management Institute, Inc., Carrabassett Valley, Maine, USA & Director, IMI Europe, Cambridge, UK

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Mike Willis, Managing Director, Pivotal Resources, Cambridge, UK
Debbie Thorp, VP EMEA Operations, iTi, Cambridge, UK

Session 1:
THE EXPANDING INK JET INDUSTRY


INK JET - NEW TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS ENABLE EVER GROWING APPLICATIONS
Mike Willis, Managing Director, Pivotal Resources, Cambridge, UK

• The changing technology base
- Use of silicon
- MEMS actuators
- Emerging technologies
• Single-pass - the entry point to the commercial & industrial print market
- Key requirements
- Is the technology up to it yet?
- Commercial considerations
• The patent scene
- Update on vendor filings
• Patent research - a crystal ball?

HIGH SPEED FIXED ARRAY INK JET FOR PRODUCTION DOCUMENT PRINTING
Mark Hanley, Managing Partner, IT Strategies Inc., Hanover, Massachusetts, USA

• Is this capable of being a long-term challenge to electrophotography?
• What is the status of products likely to be shown at DRUPA?
• Market projections
• Keeping DRUPA expectations reasonable
• Are vendors driving this or users?
• The ink jet business model

INK JET INK PROGRESS AND FORECAST
Vince Cahill, Consulting Director of VCE Solutions, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, USA

• Ink & printhead technologies: CIJ, PIJ, TIJ, Valve-jet
• Inks and substrate interaction
• Novel ink technologies: nano-particle inks, conductive inks
• Beyond ink: materials for ink jet deposition
• Market applications, challenges, opportunities and worldwide forecasts
• Current status of textile inks
• Survey results of ink manufacturers and end users
• Forecasts for ink jet inks to 2012

DOD INK JET FOR TRANSACTIONAL & COMMERCIAL PRINT MARKETS
George Promis, Vice President of Color Solutions and Technology Alliances, Boulder, Colorado, USA

• Market environment & customer requirements for production digital color printing
• InfoPrint 5000 color solution strategy based on open standards/industry accepted architecture for color accuracy & consistency
• Robust & scalable controllers to handle high volumes of fully variable jobs
• Workflow integration with customizable process management to optimize productivity
• Best-of-breed engine addressing customer requirements for speed, quality, availability, and flexibility

THE TECHNOLOGIES DRIVING THE GROWTH OF INK JET PRINTING
Gilbert Hawkins, Associate Director, Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, New York, USA

• Technology drivers for unprecedented growth in commercial and consumer ink jet printing
- MEMS devices
- New systems architectures
- Nano-particulate inks
- Novel media
- Sophisticated image processing
- Workflow solutions

THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE IN THE “PHOTO” PRINTING MARKETPLACE - PROGRESS REPORT
Rob Kershaw, Strategic Account Business Director, Ilford Imaging, Marly, Switzerland

• Historical perspective 2005-2007
• Output technologies and trends for the future
• Where will consumer prints be made?
• Battle of the brands
• What lies ahead in the consumer market?
• Changes in wide format photo printing
• Ink jet proofing

LILO, LIGHT INITIATED LIQUID OFFSET: THE PRODUCTIVITY BENEFITS OF DIGITAL AT THE OUTPUT SPEED AND QUALITY OF OFFSET
Bryan Palphreyman, Director of Business Development, Inkski Ltd, Cambridge, UK
 
• Technology Overview
• Speed and Resolution Potential
• Scalability Opportunities
• Market Roadmap
• Development Tools

7:00 p.m.
Reception
Join us and enjoy local wines and beers, canapes, and of course good company!

Thursday November 8, 2007

9:00 a.m.
Session 2:
EMERGING APPLICATIONS & MARKETS FOR INK JET

ENHANCING JETTED UV INK PRINT QUALITY
Andrew Ridyard, Senior Business Development Manager, Exfo LS&I Division, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

• Matching UV sources to the process
• Reasons for and advantages of UV before final cure
• Test methods
• Print test results
• Single pass UV ink jet printing applications
• Enhancing print quality
• Technical requirements of low level UV heads

OPTIMISING SINGLE PASS UV-CURING PRINTING – AN INK PERSPECTIVE
Mark Bale, Technical Manager, SunJet, Midsomer Norton, UK

• Demands of single pass printing
• Review of current implementations
• Ink requirements
- Drying
- Odour
- Speed
• Future directions

INCORPORATING SINGLE PASS INK JET INTO A HIGH-END LABEL PRESS
Peter Walsh, Business Manager, FFEI Limited, Hemel Hempstead, UK

• The challenge
- Customer requirements
- Speed
- Configurations
- Substrates
- Synchronisation
• The technologies - A system approach
- Print heads
- Cleaning systems
- Datapath
- Web system
- Ink delivery
- Ink formulation
- Curing systems
- Screening and colour management
• The pitfalls
• The result
• Lessons learnt

THE FLEXIBILITY OF INKJET: MAKING THE MOST OF VARIABLE DROPS
Mark Alexander, Director of Marketing, Xaar, Cambridge, UK

• Xaar’s drop formation technology
• Binary & greyscale
• Drop size options
• Application of variable drop
• Benefits for single pass printing

BRIDGING THE PATH TO A SILICON FUTURE
Howard Baldwin, VP Sales, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA

• Changing printhead construction techniques
- Carbon
- Hybrid
- Shaped Piezo Silicon
• VersaDrop jetting technology
- Performance characteristics
- User benefits
• Future directions

1:00 p.m.

Luncheon
Join us for tradional and modern Portuguese cuisine, plus some local wines

2:30 p.m.
Session 3:
NEW PRINTHEAD TECHNOLOGIES


X2 – HP’S REVOLUTIONARY PIEZO PRINTHEAD
Haggai Karlinski, Piezo Print Head Manager, HP Scitex, Herzlia, Israel

• The first piezo based printhead developed by HP – X2
- Based on MEMS architecture
- Customised for industrial printing applications
• High ink flux
- The fastest MEMS printhead in the market
- Up to 50 picolitre drops at 30 kHz per nozzle
• Piezo actuator isolated from ink, ensuring hundreds of billion pulses with no degradation in performance
• Silicon/glass body ensures compatibility with UV-curable, solvent and water-based inks
• Designed to work with high viscosity inks needed for industrial printing
• Slim profile
- 128 nozzles on a 1 mm wide chip enables multi-chip arrangement with very small footprint

PANASONIC PRINT HEAD TECHNOLOGY AND MARKET APPLICATIONS
Paul Morgavi, President & C.E.O., IMPIKA, Aubagne, France

• State of the art of the ink jet technology
- Focus on DOD technology
- Different method of drop ejection using DOD piezo technology
- Main print head manufacturer for industrial application
- Industrial equipment available on the market
• Panasonic print head characteristic
- PZT element
- Nozzle hole
- Water repellent thin film
- Variable drop size
- Mechanical
- Printing performance
• Market applications using PANASONIC print head (actual and future)
- Label
- Flexible packaging
- Commercial Printing
- Others

MICROPIEZO TECHNOLOGY FOR INDUSTRIAL INK JET MARKETS
Marc Tinkler, Senior Business Development Manager, Epson Europe, Hemel Hempstead, UK

• Use of Epson’s printhead and ink technology beyond the desk-top
• Current applications
- Sign & graphics
- Photo/Minilabs
- Textile printing
• Commercial printing
• OEM ink flexibility
• Future markets for Epson’s technology

TONEJET: FULFILLING THE DEMANDS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING
Guy Newcombe, Director, Tonejet Ltd, Cambridge, UK

• Key market sectors
- Size
- Demands
- Drivers for digital
• Creating and capturing the added value
• The Tonejet advantage
- Offset-quality single pass printing
- Wide range of substrates

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SUPPLIERS FORUM
5 minute presentations related to technology, capabilities, services, new product introductions etc. The Supplier’s Forum is open to all registrants.

Reception
Join us and enjoy local wines and beers, canapes, and of course good company!

Friday November 9, 2007

9:00 a.m.
Session 4:
REAL WORLD ISSUES DETERMINE SUCCESS

INK JET INKS FOR INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Anke Müller, Technical Director ink jet, Staedtler Ink Jet, Nürnberg, Germany

• Definition of “industrial ink jet”
• Innovative industrial applications
• Which ink to choose for which application
• Marketing and sales approach for those markets

ADVANCES IN INDUSTRIAL INKJET PRINTING
Alan Hudd, CEO Xennia Technology Ltd, Letchworth, UK

• Reliable high throughput single pass inkjet solutions using the new Xaar 1001 printhead
- Range of inks, including “difficult” settling pigmented inks
- Formulating for reliability
- Integration for robust industrial 24/7 production
- Ink systems and other components
• High precision materials deposition using Xaar and Dimatix printheads for electronic applications
- Range of functional materials
• High quality decoration of metal and plastic parts
- UV cure inks for high durability

INK JET PRINTHEADS FOR AGILE MANUFACTURING
Linda Creagh,Business Development Director, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Santa Clara, California, USA

• How ink jets are used in manufacturing
- LCD processes
- PCB processes
- Photovoltaic processes
• Advantages/disadvantages for ink jets in manufacturing
• New ink jet printheads and systems for manufacturing

DEVELOPMENTS AND ISSUES IN HIGH-QUALITY IN-LINE UV PRINTING
John Corrall, Managing Director, Industrial Inkjet Ltd, Cambridge, UK

• Scanning versus single pass printing requires different strategies
• Wet on wet or pin and cure?
• Resolution – effects of drop volume and spacing
• Pre-treatments and their effects
• UV – curing to get the right image qualities
• Reliability issues
• Substrate transport critical to high quality images

INTEGRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DISPERSION QUALITY OF CARBON BLACK FORMUALTIONS TRACED BY MULTISAMPLE ANALYTICAL CENTRIFUGATION
Dr D Lerche, L.U.M. GmbH, Berlin, Germany

• Carbon black dispersions extremely polydisperse, both particle size and density
- Efficient dispersion, plus viscosity and density of the dispersion media contributes to final formulation quality
- Therefore quality control for production and development complex and labour-intensive
• New method of multisample analytical centrifugation
• Application of centrifugal forces induces separation of dispersions
- Characteristic peculiar separation behaviour dependent on dispersion quality - “back- folding” effect
- Marked reduction in turbidity after a distinct time of centrifugation
- The better the dispersion quality the later the “back-folding” effect occurs
• Close links between time to back folding and dispersion quality or velocity of induced separation verified

1:00 p.m. Adjournment