Sheraton Hotel & Spa, Lisbon, Portugal
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Understanding the fundamentals is a prerequisite to any development. The Ink Jet Academy offers a one and one-half day course covering the basic theory of all the diverse types of ink jet technology in use today. Learn how the printheads work, what materials are used in their fabrication and the theory of operation. Learn about inks and media, how they are formulated and the supply and support systems. This course assumes a basic scientific knowledge and will provide a useful background to anyone entering the ink jet industry or seeking an efficient update of ink jet technology.
Mike Willis, Managing Director
Pivotal Resources Limited
Cambridge, UK
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.
Xennia Technology Limited
Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK
In 1996, Dr. Hudd founded Xennia Technology, the world’s first independent contract ink jet technology house dedicated to the industrial and office inkjet industries. Since then, Dr. Hudd has grown Xennia into a leading player in the rapidly emerging market for industrial inkjet technologies. Under Dr. Hudd, Xennia has developed a unique set of inkjet chemistry, engineering and problem solving capabilities that has resulted in a number of important technology innovations, especially in the field of inkjet dispensing of difficult materials.
Xennia is the world’s leading chemistry driven industrial inkjet integrator. Xennia provides a complete contract R&D service to support the development of a new application. Xennia supplies printers and inks for production line solutions to OEM’s and end-users across a range of industrial applications. Xennia is part of the Royal Tencate Group.
Xennia Technology Limited
Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK
Tim is Marketing Manager at Xennia, the leading one stop ink jet solutions house, responsible for the R&D Contracts and Customised Solutions areas. This requires a strong working knowledge of the latest ink jet technology, and brings him into contact with a wide range of clients working at the leading edge of new applications. These include printed electronics, deposition of functional materials, and bio and medical applications as well as the latest graphics applications – anything that is at the forefront of this exciting technology. Tim graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1991 with an MA Honours degree in Natural Sciences, and completed his PhD in liquid crystal physics and chemistry at the University of Bristol in 1994. He is currently nearing completion of an Executive MBA at the University of Warwick.