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This conference focuses on decoration, particularly with digital printing. 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 PRINTI ENTERS TRADITIONAL MARKETS
Mike Willis, Managing Director, Pivotal Resources, Cambridge, England

• Status of digital printing
• Industrial applications - why now?
• Enabling technologies
• Emerging digital printing products

DIGITAL PRINTING IN EMERGING LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION MARKETS
Mark Hanley, President, IT Strategies, Hanover, Massachusetts, USA

• Place of ink jet & electrophotography
• Electrophotography limitations
• Ink jet limitations and ways of accommodating them
• Potential market dimensions 5 years out

MARKET DYNAMICS & TECHNOLOGY NEEDS AS DIGITAL PRINTING ADDRESSES INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Stewart Partridge, Managing Director, Web Consulting Limited, Wantage, England

• The influence of inherited market/supply structures
• When photorealism compromises cost & functionality
• Market kinetics versus market dynamics
• Brief on selected markets & applications
- Glass & ceramics
- Automotive
- Textiles
- Packaging
- POP
• Avoiding “cloud cuckoo” forecasting
• Targeting sustainable business models & product concepts
• The role of alliances & associations

DIGITAL PRINTING IN FMCG MARKETS – REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS
Wil Schoenmakers, Section Head, Procter & Gamble Technical Centres Limited, Egham, England

• An overview of the short term and longer term opportunities in the FMCG market
• Is there a superior technology or should we wait?
• Commercial and technical challenges today
• Examples of what the industry has done so far
• How to move forward faster and what help can the ink jet industry provide

THE FUTURE OF OUTDOOR SIGNAGE
David Williamson, President, Visual Information Group, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

• Market sizing and growth trends
• Drivers behind increased volume
• Colliding technologies: Can ink jet win this contest
• Update on durability standards
• Five key developments in the outdoor market

7:00 p.m. Reception

Thursday, November 8, 2001

9:00 a.m. Session 2

DIGITAL PRINTING FOR EMERGING MARKETS

APPLICATIONS & TRENDS IN THE WORLDWIDE SUPER-WIDE DIGITAL PRINTING MARKET
Des King, VUTEk, Meredith, New Hampshire, USA

• Product developments & impact on the market
• Screen printers & the adoption of digital technology
• Photo labs & the latest photo-reaL output
• Maturing markets
• Diversification
• Flat bed & future developments

THE INS AND OUTS OF A UV FLATBED INK JET PRINTER
Paul Yandell, Business Development Manager, Sericol Imaging, Broadstairs, England

• Challenges
• Experiences with the Inca Eagle 44
• Why UV curing?
• Applications and opportunities

THE VERSATILITY OF THE HYBRID FLAT BED PRINTER – APPLICATIONS & MARKETS
Sam Featherston, Sales Manager, Leggett & Platt Digital Technologies, Somerset, New Jersey, USA

• Technology evolution of flat bed printers
• Technology evolution of digital textile printers
• Manufacturing flexibility inherent in hybrid printers
• New potential for digitally printed rigid substrates
• Flat bed’s place in the manufacturing stream
• A Leggett & Platt internal case study

DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING - TARGET MARKETS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING
Paolo Testori, Product Manager, DuPont Ink Jet, Milan, Italy

• Global textile printing market
• Value drivers of digital textile printing
• Target markets
• Textile technology challenges
• System integration needs & solutions
• Future of textile printing - Evolution or revolution?

MEDIA TRENDS IN THE SUPERWIDE (XXL) PRINT MARKET
Marc Nitsche, Business Unit Manager Graphics & Images, Neschen, Bückeburg, Germany

• Textiles
- Coated or uncoated fabrics
- Fire retardency
- Applications
• Self adhesive vinyls
- New generation of vinyls
- Coating for solvent inks?

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

FULL COLOUR LIGHT EMITTING POLYMER DISPLAYS BY INK JET PRINTING
Dr Karl Heeks, Director of System Engineering Business Unit, Cambridge Display Technology Limited, Cambridge, England

• Introduction to LEP technology
• Requirements for full colour displays
• Ink jet printing for colour displays
- Jetability
- Substrate surface modification
- Control of solvent drying
• Issues for integration of ink jet printers into the production environment
• Alternative patterning techniques


REQUIREMENTS OF PRINTING WALL-COVERINGS DIGITALLY
Sunita Chavan, Market Development Manager: Digital Systems, OMNOVA Solutions Inc., Fairlawn, Ohio, USA

• Wallcovering: Residential, commercial
- Digital printing applications in wall covering
- Sampling
• Short-run production
• Sampling: Digital benefits & issues

AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL PRINTING & FINISHING SOLUTION FOR THE LABEL MARKET
Peter Bracke, R&D Manager, Barco Graphics, Gent, Belgium

o UV curable ink jet technology
o Simple operation & maintenance
o In-line finishing equipment
o Complete short run, in-line label production


TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS OF INK JET PRINTING IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY
Peter E. J. Legierse, Senior Scientist, Philips Electronics Nederland B.V. Centre for Industrial Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

• Applications of ink jet printing
- Labelling & coding
- Decoration
- Functional layers
• Trends
- Continuous versus impulse printing
- Mass customisation
- Environment
• European subsidised projects
- Decoration
- Functional layers
- Heat resistant
• Requirements and testing

SUPPLIERS FORUM
5 minute presentations related to new product or service capabilities and introductions - open to all conference registrants

7:00 p.m. Reception

Friday, November 9, 2001

9:00 a.m. Session 3

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & SYSTEM INTEGRATION

INTEGRATING INK JET PRINT ENGINES FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Dr Will Eve, Director of Technology, Inca Digital Printers Limited, Cambridge, England

• What is different about industrial printing?
• Requirements for industrial printing
• Ink jet & ink system necessities
• Data path – electronics and software
• Mechanical mounting
• Print modes
• Making it all work!


INK JET UV TECHNOLOGY
Dirk Jägers, Director Business Unit Web Converting, IST Metz GmbH, Nürtingen, Germany

• Ink jet UV technology
• Cooling cylinder technique
• Air-cooled high power units (MBS)
• Water-cooled high power units (HLK)
• UV technology for an oxygen-reduced operation
• UV power control (step switching or stepless control of lamp output)
• UV technology for heat sensitive materials


INTEGRATION – ENABLING DIGITAL PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Dipl-Phys. Peter Schmitt, Development Director, Metronic AG, Veitshöchheim, Germany

• Introducing Metronic AG, system supplier and integrator
- Historical background, product range, perspectives
• Printing and coding – different approaches in integration
• The need for integration
• Integration – a challenge for system suppliers
• Hybrid technologies
• Logistics – a neglected challenge


BEYOND THE TECHNOLOGY: MAKING IT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD
Dave Ward, Technical Director, Ceema Technology, Biggleswade, England

• Engineering industrial strength applications
- Precision movement and positioning
- Dynamic ink supply
- Maintenance systems
- Reliability issues
- In-line demands
• Application specific issues
- Label printing
- Part marking
- Printing on plastic
- Non-ink fluids

GETTING THE MEASURE OF INK JET
Paul Sinclair, Managing Director, VisionJet, Royston, England

• The smaller the drop the more complex the process
• Optimising the chemistry and the drive waveform
• Drop wars - Speed vs velocity vs reliability
• Image quality - who’s responsibility is it?
• What is the impact of your drop?

1:00 p.m. Luncheon & Adjournment