| 18th Annual European Ink Jet Conference | |
| 2 day conference | Download brochure pdf (700 KB) |
| Wednesday 27th - Friday 29th October, 2010 Sheraton Hotel & Spa, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Ink jet printing continues to make technology advancements in product functionality, cost performance, print quality, and colour printing capabilities. Such improvements have made ink jet printing the leading digital printing technology and have enabled the development of new markets and applications. In addition to personal computer printing, applications such as wide format printing, photo quality printers, multifunction printers, digital presses, colour office printers, and industrial printing are providing market opportunities for ink jet printing technology, but in a very competitive environment. This conference programme is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive assessment of technology and market development trends that will determine ink jet printing’s role in the overall printing marketplace. The formal sessions and informal networking sessions provide a unique, interactive environment for leading hardware, consumables, components, system integrator and user company representatives to network and develop an improved understanding of current developments and other forces that are shaping ink jet printing’s role in the evolving digital printing industry. |
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| BENEFITS OF CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE |
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• Learn the latest advancements and developments in ink jet printing technologies that are advancing the product and application state-of-the-art • Participate in interactive sessions and informal discussions relative to ink jet printing’s capabilities, features, advancements and requirements • Establish personal contacts with recognised leaders and innovators in ink jet printing technologies and their commercial applications • Obtain insights into the issues critical to the continued success of ink jet printing in an increasingly competitive market environment • Receive information on key issues influencing your company’s decisions and directions in the development, implementation and use of ink jet printing technology |
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| CONFERENCE PROGRAMME | |
| Wednesday October 27, 2010 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Conference Registration 2:00 p.m. Opening session Introduction to 18th Annual European Ink Jet 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, Business Development Director, Global Inkjet Systems Ltd, Cambridge, UK Session 1: COMMERCIAL PRINTING – A MAJOR GROWTH SECTOR FOR INK JET INK JET INSIGHT: MARKET TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND ATTITUDES Charles LeCompte, President, Lyra Research • Ink jet market overview: hardware, ink, and media • Ink jet vendors: highlights, trends and challenges • Survey says: home printing - Highlights from EMEA and US surveys • Survey says: office printing - Highlights from EMEA survey HIGH VOLUME INKJET'S GOOD PROGRESS AND JUSTIFIABLE AMBITIONS Mark Hanley, President, IT Strategies, Hanover, Massachusetts, USA • Credibility is established • Reliability and quality are better than expected • There are some big technology issues yet however • Digital presses and offset do not have to worry too much just yet... INSIDE HIGH-SPEED PRESSES – THE TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS AND ISSUE Mike Willis, Managing Director, Pivotal Resources Ltd., Cambridge, UK • How did ink jet suddenly get good enough for the printing industry? - Print quality - Print speed - Reliability • The technology of page array printheads • Inside the sheet-fed presses - The problems paper handling & registration - Drying • Where is Memjet in all this? CHALLENGES AND OPPOURTUNITIES FOR HIGH-SPEED INK JET Englebert Stranegger, Director Business Development Inkjet Technology, Océ Printing Systems GmbH KODAK STREAM INKJET TECHNOLOGY MOVES INTO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS Donald R. Allred, Director, Business Development, Inkjet Printing Solutions, Graphic Communications Group, Eastman Kodak Company, Dayton, Ohio, USA • Kodak Stream inkjet technology - moving from lab to commercial products • Beginning the challenge to traditional commercial and publishing print technologies - High image quality - High productivity - Low cost of print • Review of the fundamental Stream technologies • Initial family of products • General performance capabilities • Targeted applications THE EVOLUTION OF COMMERCIAL PRINTING USING PAGE-WIDE ARRAYS Paul Morgavi, President & C.E.O, IMPIKA, Aubagne, France • Commercial printing market and application • Printing technologies status • Market share evolution by technology and application • The digital printing challenges • Today and tomorrow’s digital printing solution using page-wide arrays 7:00 p.m. Join us and enjoy local wines and beers, canapés, and of course good company! Thursday October 28, 2010 9:00 a.m. Session 2: EMERGING INK JET TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED PIGMENT DISPERSION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NEW INK JET AGE Dr Tom Annable, Pigments Research Leader, FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, Manchester, UK • Ink and colorant requirements/expectations for emerging ink jet markets • The challenges of dispersing pigments for ink jet inks • The additional challenges of high throughput ink jet • New pigment dispersion technology to enable the next wave of aqueous ink jet inks NEW NANO-PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY ENABLES ADVANCED AQUEOUS INK RECEPTIVE “UNCOATED” SUBSTRATES Dr John Edmunds, Technical Director, Futures (Wales) Ltd., Staffordshire, UK • Patented “Infusion” technologies - Create substrates with exceptional durability - Very high-speed drying abilities - Can be used with any type of aqueous Inkjet Inks • Advanced, wide gamut, longevity, “particle inks” to match substrates capabilities • New unique nano-particle “top coat” - Allows even dye-based inks to match the longevity of pigment ink but with greater richness • Suitable for all ink jet printers including high speed Memjet • Infusion technology can also be used to increase the drying speed and image quality of water-based flexo and gravure printing • Answer to the economical environmental requirements of today INK JET INKS – CHALLENGING MARKETS, CHALLENGING TECHNOLOGY Peter Walshe, Business Development Manager, SunJet, Midsomer Norton, UK • Ink jet in the graphics market • Evolution of UV inks & expansion into graphic sub-markets - Glass printing - Thermoform inks - Vehicle wraps • Technology challenges – scanning systems to single pass and more • Non-graphic ink jet applications – where will the growth be? - Décor - Printed electronics - Packaging - Security / ID - Photovoltaic - Publishing - & more • Integration – advancing inks, heads, curing systems and printers for future applications ADVANCES IN XAAR’S RESEARCH ON HIGH SPEED INKJET PRINTING Ramon Borrell, R&D Director, Xaar, Cambridge, UK • Outstanding versatility of inkjet has attracted a large number of applications in many fields • Some of those applications have strong requirements in productivity - Different abilities to trade off other requirements in order to achieve their speed goals • Xaar has been researching a number of techniques aimed at maximizing productivity for different applications • Due to different sets of requirements overlapping with the need for enhanced printing speed, multiple techniques have been explored, including - High drop frequencies - With or without addressability reduction - Multiple nozzles per channels - Massive printhead replication • Each shows specific challenges and advantages making them attractive for different applications Q-CLASS PLATFORM, A NEW ERA IN PRINTHEAD CONFIGURABILITY Henrik Lauridsen, European Sales Manager, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA • Company background • Broad industry trends • Addressing market needs through printhead design - Comprehensive product range - New Q-Class printhead platform - Q-Class configurability • VersaDrop jetting technology • SAMBA single-pass breakthrough 1:00 p.m. Join us for traditional and modern Portuguese cuisine, plus some local wines 2:30 p.m. Session 3 SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY UV LEDS – A WHOLLY MISUNDERSTOOD TECHNOLOGY? Adrian Lockwood, Managing Director, Integration Technology Ltd, Upper Heyford, Oxon, UK • Why has UV LED technology gained so relatively little market traction to date? • Understanding what make UV LEDs ‘tick’ - Misconceptions - Intensity versus dose versus wavelength - The issues of measurement - The much misunderstood curing process • Self imposed market barriers - Over marketing hype - Price, ink, cooling & ignorance? • So what can UV LEDs do? - Some examples of actual usage in ink jet - Some other lateral applications • Where is the technology going? - Future technical developments - Legislation and the environmental impact HIGH-SPEED DRYING OF AQUEOUS-BASED INKS FOR EMERGING INK JET PRESSES David Pelling, Director, Adphos UK Ltd, Reading, UK • Accelerated drying becoming a real need - Continued growth of aqueous ink jet printing - Demand for higher speeds • “True” NIR (Near Infra Red) technology offers a solution - Dries aqueous inks - Works at high print speeds - Allows for variance of substrates • Critical to success of emerging CMYK ink jet presses • Benefits of NIR technology • Issues special to multi-colour printing (CMYK) LARGE-SCALE SINGLE PASS INKJET PRINTING: A FOCUS ON VARIABLE DATA SOFTWARE AND HIGH-SPEED DATAPATH ELECTRONICS Debbie Thorp, Business Development Director, Global Inkjet Systems Ltd, Cambridge, UK • Single pass commercial driver • System challenges • Printhead update - Increases in data rates • Increasing demand on print data - Challenges for RIP manufacturers - Content creation - How do you feed the beast? • Impact on production pipeline upstream & downstream from print station - Flexible interleaved production runs - Benefits? Problems? - Customer education on capabilities • Typical system architectures • Advanced printhead configurations possible with GIS technology INK JET PRINTING FOR PRODUCT DECORATION APPLICATIONS Bob Hitchcock, General Manager, ITW Trans Tech, Carol Stream, Illinois, USA • Review of traditional product decoration technology • Pros and cons of ink jet • Printing system platforms • Inks and process development • Integration options & opportunities • Future role for ink jet in product decoration SUPPLIERS FORUM 5 minute presentations related to technology, capabilities, services, new product introductions etc. The Supplier’s Forum is open to all registrants. 7:00 p.m. Join us and enjoy local wines and beers, canapés, and of course good company! Friday October 29, 2010 9:00 a.m. Session 4: EMERGING APPLICATIONS FOR INK JET TONEJET: BREAKING INTO THE INDUSTRIAL MARKETPLACE Guy Newcombe, Chief Technical Officer, Tonejet, Cambridge, UK • The industrial marketplace - Why digital revolutionises the marketplace - How Tonejet is leading the revolution • Can printing - A perfect entry point for digital printing - How the Tonejet system is being used to create new, high value markets - How this market is being developed • Label and film - Why brands want to change the way they buy and use print - How Tonejet provides the solution - What we’re delivering and how PUSHING THE KYOCERA KJ4 DIGITAL PRESS SPEED LIMIT Charlie Yuan Chang, Vice President, Amica Systems, Irvine, California, USA • Kyocera KJ4 600DPI standard speed - Is 300m/min possible? • Double speed system design • Transport and mechanical challenge • Print quality comparisons • Implementation in a machine recently released in Japan BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING Antonino Tricomi, Business Development Director, Reggiani Macchine s.P.a. Bergamo, Italy • Revolutionary diagonal multi pass digital inkjet textile printing system • Enables reliable printing on textile substrates in an industrial production environment - Unrivalled speed 360 sq. m/hour - High quality • Proprietary technology of all partners • Reggiani’s wide, high accuracy belt-driven transport • Xennia’s inkjet modules, print engine, fluid controllers & Centaurus and Cygnus software • Next steps INKJET PRINTING OF SOLUTION PRODUCED SOLAR ENERGY COATINGS FOR A RANGE OF APPLICATIONS Dr Tim Phillips, Marketing Manager, Xennia Technology Ltd., Letchworth, UK • How it works • What ink jet offers over other manufacturing techniques • Applications • Solution produced coatings • Using ink jet to change the proposition • Outlook SYSTEM OPTIMISATION FOR UV LED DRYING Rob Karsten, Director European Sales & Marketing, Phoseon Technology Europe, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA • A look at the key system parameters for successful UV LED integration • Assessment of Cost of ownership and efficiency • Where does UV LED go from here 12:30 p.m. | |