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Welcome Address

Drena Milijević, managing director,  Institute of Packaging and Graphic Arts Tectus - IatT, Croatia

Trends in digital printing - specialization and flexibility needed for success

In the last couple of years, digital inkjet printing has caught a new wave of printing with its single pass solutions coming to market! The new single pass doesn’t bring only speed with its new techniques but also more reliability and this puts it in a new environment of industrial printing.
The ceramic tile printing was the first major market to take benefit of this field. The next area for digital single pass was the textile printing industry.
However, digital is also taking its advantages such as corrugated cardboard printing in the packaging industry. Nowadays they can produce cardboard sheet printing at a speed of a sheet per second. Even in the area of container printing (yoghurt cups, plastic bottles, sleeves …), the digital direct printing solution seems to take over and bring more possibilities, as well as in glass printing.
Industrial printing is becoming more and more digital but this also means a shift from print as a product (like a poster) towards print as a process (just a part of a larger product, like a car). This will not replace the large format printing but will provide new opportunities for many suppliers and printers.

Peter Buttiens, CEO, ESMA (European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association), Belgium
 

Process Standard Digital - establishing and implementing typical guidelines for a predictable print result

Globalization, new media and marketing trends define the need of a predictable print quality. Matching customer expectation with the printer commitment often shows that it is not enough for the print to be colourful, but rather to have the exact right colour. The focus of Fogra PSD lies in understanding and control of the entire workflow by providing typical industrial guidelines ranging from data creation all the way to printing and is primarily meant for print service providers and print buyers that are active in small and large format digital printing arena. Fogra PSD blends smoothly the appropriate knowledge base and tools with the interplay of important ISO, national and de-facto standards.

Dorin Pitigoi, color & standardization expert, FOGRA PSO qualified partner, UGRA certified expert, X-Rite/Pantone education partner, Romania
 

Modern European and Croatian market are increasingly demanding quality of the product regardless of production price and technological possibilities. Digital printing is in a constant race in order to satisfy those expectations. However, set quality standards are not detailed enough, thus misunderstandings occur regularly between producers and buyers’ real expectations regarding quality.
These discrepancies can cause problems that often end in lawsuits, which unfortunately always lead to dissatisfaction of at least one of the parties. Defining product quality, even according to stricter elements of the standard, during initial contracting would reduce all of the above mentioned.

Igor Zjakić, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Croatia
 

Solutions for business improvement

The Production Printing market is undergoing fundamental changes. The presentation will identify the most important developments, and present strategies that can be used by print providers to build a healthy and sustainable growth of their business. The resources that Konica Minolta makes available in “Digital1234” to enable customers to thrive will also be introduced.

Hans Huijsing, Business Development Manager at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

Exhibition:

How to print the expected on backlit substrates - colour reproduction for light boxes and their different states

From more conventional based applications on backlit film or PVC to more demanding niche of stained glass decorative application, the challenge of printing the expected is appraised through color vividness and richness, strong contrast and dynamic range. Measuring such printing combination is not always effortless and sometime requires workarounds in order to obtain meaningful visual correlated measurement data. This tutorial aims at providing practical guidelines and tips for measuring, profiling and displaying such application on several types of substrates using various printing technologies and display conditions (light on/off, day/night viewing conditions).

Dorin Pitigoi, Romania

EPSON - print everywhere

From prepress to product line for professional and commercial printing, Epson understands what is important and designs solutions that cover every customer’s business need. Epson has recently broadened its wide range of products with Epson SureColor SC-F2000, the first DTG (Direct-To-Garment) T-shirt printer, for direct print on cotton T-shirts and other textile materials. Top production quality, reliable performance, simple application and low maintenance costs make it ideal for everybody who wishes to offer new opportunities of personalized fabric printing. The printer is intended for classic and online stores and printers offering T-shirts and other materials with personalized prints. It is also of interest to clothes manufacturers, who would like to offer smaller or more exclusive lines with special motives, as well as to big corporations with the need for smaller and medium lines of custom T-shirts or other textile products.

Mladen Široki, managing director, ZINA d.o.o., Croatia

Exhibition:

XEIKON 3500 in digital packaging and label production

In the time of great market competition, flexibility, creativity and speed are becoming more important factors and that is why digital print technology is evergrowing. It is hard to imagine a modern print house without digital technology. Packaging industry has just started implementing this technology in order to be able to meet the market requirements regarding fast response time, provide short and medium print runs, where only digital technology allows yielding profit. But to what extent?
This technology has been used in labeling for a long time already, since requirements for Pantone colour print are milder than those in packaging industry. XEIKON 3500 is the first true professional digital printer for full B2 format, allowing for packaging and label printing.
What about postpress after printing itself? With all advantages that come with digital printing, XEIKON offers you impeccable print on offset level, which is of exceptional importance in packaging particularly. On the other hand, digital print allows you producing attractive and effective solutions that will bring you new ideas for acquiring new customers. XEIKON print technology has thus expanded onto very sensitive markets that need ecologically impeccable toners, as well as onto industry of food products with short expiration date.
Therefore, one of the essential questions is whether the packaging printed on XEIKON can be used for food products and children’s toys? What influence do these toners have on environment?

Andrej Štrus, Area Manager, Xeikon Austria gmbH, Austria
 

How to grow in a flat economy

In the world of large format printing, a combination of creativity and technology brings us to new solutions and applications, as well as added value. Trends in sales of materials for large format digital printing are increasingly turning towards special materials. Find out more about various types of special materials and their applications.
Green technologies are becoming imperative for modern market, and you can satisfy requirements of sustainable and ecologically aware business with Guandong materials.

Daniele Faoro, Business Development and Area Manager, Guandong Italia S.r.l., Italia

Exhibition:

• Roland VS-540i  - eco solvent print&cut devices that will demonstrate printing on special Guandong materials – wall decals, T-shirt stickers, magnets, etc.
• Roland LEF-12 – UV printer for printing on all types of materials (promo materials, souvenirs)

Xerox solutions for bussines and profit growth

Advanced solutions for digital printing from Xerox come as a answer to the needs of users with the aim of business development and profit increase. How Xerox facilitates operations in challenging conditions and what kind of customer support is available?
Today's the position of the printed media has changed greatly and is oriented towards synergy with other communication channels - Xerox provides solutions to build just such applications...

Simon Kinder, Production Colour Consultant, Xerox Middle East and Africa
 

EU fund's and printing industry - how we did it

How to recognize EU projects, which companies from graphic industry can participate in? What is needed to receive funding... We will provide eight specific examples of projects in graphic industry and show most common mistakes that resulted in failure, as well as successful example of receiving financial support from the funds.

Hrvoje Kokot, advisor, Grafo servis d.o.o., Croatia
 

Environment protection in printing industry

Not enough attention is paid to health and environmental protection. Processes in graphic industry today are surely more ecologically acceptable than before, and are being constantly improved through new ecological materials and processes that reduce negative effect on environment. Nevertheless, there are dangers and harmful effects that arise from the production process. Adoption of safety standards is a good way to rush safety application and awareness. It is important to know the exact products used in order to know how to handle specific materials and chemicals. Employee training, health control of employees working on digital presses, material safety data sheet, as well as protective equipment are the most important components security-wise. Waste management: sorting at source and disposal – is another security segment.

Maja Pavelić Opuhač, member of Croatian Security Managers Association, Croatia