08.00 - 18.00

09.00 - 10.00

• Explosive growth and new market opportunities in office and industrial printing
  
• Emergence of new printing solutions and technology innovations
  
• Innovations: HP Scalable Printing Technology: introducing HP Edgeline Technology - page width printing
  
• Printing advances in performance (high throughput at high print quality), print and document management, and lower running costs
  

10.00 -11.00

• Company background
  
• Technology description: how high density of nozzles and low cost per nozzle is achieved
  
• Comparison with other digital printing technologies
  
• Range of applications
  

11.30 -12.15

• Ink jet hardware update
• What’s new in ink jet media and inks?
• How are user printing habits changing? What are the big influences?

• Frequency
  
  • Pumping rate
    
  • Data Rate
    
  • Drying and curing
    
• Resolution
  
  • Drop sizes
    
  • Film thickness
    
• Printing
• Linear and area rates
  
• Manufacturing
  
  • Volume rate
    
• Cost
  

12.15 - 13.00

• Brief review of dye and pigment ink technologies
• Colour issues: gamut, stability, light fastness, test procedures
• Distinguishing branding and marketing hype from technical reality
• Ink versus toner - any contest?
• Does application govern system choice?
• Future developments in ink jet ink technologies

• The Piezo Playing Field
• New organization at FUJIFILM Dimatix (formerly Spectra)
• Emergence of new applications for Piezo Electric
• Will Wide Format and Digital Press products evolve into Single Pass Wide Format

14.30 - 15.15

• Does green really matter? – Does anybody care?
• What are the environmental issues in ink and toner?
• Modern research on environmental printing issues
• Getting greener or “forget global warming”!

• State of the Industry
• Single Pass ink jet technologies
• Integration challenges
• Innovative applications
• Future integrations

15.15 - 16.00

• Products and markets – what is driving what?
• OEM cartridge marketing – how OEMs are trying to encourage consumers to stay loyal
• Flooded with choice - recent developments in the compatibles market, and their impact
• In the end, it’s all about channels

• How ink jet and ink have evolved together
• Current and future technology
• UV – Cationic vs. Free Radical
• The return of hot melt?
• Developments in DOD ink jet inks

• Report from CeBIT
• Review and comparison of earlier years
• Tradeshow research versus the internet - any contest?
• The future of tradeshows?

• Global wide format ink jet market size
• Ink jet technology trends and platform advantages
• Discussion of flatbeds, inkjet printing on fabric: why and why not
• Foresight of this market in 2010

• Global and regional growth trends for labels
• Growth by label type and technology
• Forecasts for RFID label usage
• New opportunities with smart active and intelligent labels (including the future with nanotechnology)
• The rise and rise of digital printing in label production

• Worldwide market forecasts for office ink jets and low-end colour printers and MFPs
• Price/performance analysis - which has the better figures?
• End user perception of the benefits of ink and toner
• Print quality analysis - which printers offer acceptable colour?
• First SPT, now Edgeline - how will this affect colour in the future?

• Current markets for UV Curing ink jet
• What we expect in the next five years
• What is preventing faster take-up of the technology

• What is Memjet and why is it so promising?
• Can new Memjet™ printing technology transcend all current imaging methods?
• What about other “new” printing technologies for label printing?
• Compare major printing performance metrics for Barcode, POS, Colour-on-demand, and more