How to ...

Contex to Host Popular Q&A Webinar on December 8, 2022 at 11AM Eastern

Contex, the world leader in large format scanning, today announces the next date for its popular Q&A webinar about large format scanning. The webinar will be held on December 8, 2022, at 11 AM Eastern.

Winter is coming, so how do you prepare for cold-weather installations?

By Dennis Leblanc, Senior Business Development Manager for North America, Drytac

With the chill of winter now very much in the air, the minds of print service providers, sign-makers and specialist installers begin to turn to how they are going to cope with installing graphics in cold conditions.

Forward Thinking in a Challenging Business Environment

Innovating with Automation and Sustainability

Printing on the edge… and beyond

By Rita Torfs, Product Manager Industrial Inks, Agfa
The printing of furniture edge bands with single-pass UV inkjet has been proven for many years, with Agfa’s Altamira Design PID inks meeting all needs. A variety of other decorative interior parts can greatly benefit from inkjet printing with the same Agfa ink set too.

Technology advancements providing smarter solutions

The recent pandemic has acted as a catalyst in accelerating digital adoption across the
textile & apparel value chain. However, very few organisations have capitalised on the
potential of smart manufacturing, turning it into sustained action.

Industry welcomes TPS as a new platform to solve challenges of sustainable textile printing

120 participants from 15 countries joined the very rst edition of Textile Printing & Sustainability (TPS) – a new platform to learn and network about the most critical questions for today’s business and research. Key market players and leading academic institutes travelled on 8-9 September 2022 to Düsseldorf-Neuss to partake in vivid exchanges about the way towards a responsible textile industry and the contribution of printing technologies.

Innovations in Optics, Inc. to Showcase LumiSpectraTM Broadband LED Illuminator, Winner of the BrightStar & Innovators Awards 2022, at The Vision Show and CIOE

Innovations in Optics, Inc. will exhibit LumiSpectraTM Broadband LED Illuminator, the winner of the BrightStar Award and the Vision Systems Design Innovators Bronze Award, at CIOE in Shenzhen (Sept. 7 - 9), and The Vision Show in Boston, MA (Oct. 11 - 13).

Is sustainability within reach of digital textile printers?

Conference will bring together key players and opinion leaders from across the textile & apparel value chain. Up for discussion will be key developments and innovations in the digital textile printing value chain.

"Digital Printing on Textiles" in September: online and hands-on

Since last year, ESMA and the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF) organise courses about digital printing on textiles. All those who attended the online theory sessions, may now register for the practical continuation on 27-28 September 2022 at the laboratories of DITF in Denkendorf, Germany.

Three opportunities to grow profits in wide format print

By Sander Sondaal, Director of Commercial Print Sales, Graphic Communications Group, Ricoh Europe

In a mature market what are the opportunities for growth? I asked this question when I explored the maturity of the wide format market in this blog.

TPS 2022 to address sustainability in printing for textile applications

Following its new focus on textile markets, the European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association (ESMA) launches a brand new event to explain and inspire change within the industry. Textile Printing and Sustainability (TPS) conference takes place on 8-9 September 2022 at Dorint Kongresshotel Düsseldorf-Neuss and welcomes all involved in automatisation, new business models and best environmental practices for various textile applications.