| 08.00 - 16.00 |
Registration and Information |
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Track 1: Office and Supplies |
Track 2: Wide Format Printing |
Track 3: Narrow Format and Specialty Printing |
| 09.00 - 09.45 |
Are MFPs Unstoppable?
Brian Bissett, Publisher & Editor, The MFP Report
- Is there an ongoing role for the single-function ink jet printers? If so, what is it?
- What is the consumer and SOHO dynamic between ink jet, mono laser and colour sales for MFPs
- What are the initial prospects for the new ink jet push by vendors into the heavy-duty MFP arena
- What’s left for vendors to differentiate themselves in a crowded MFP world?
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How RIPs are driving the Printing Industry
Thomas Degenfeld, Director of Sales and New Business Development, EMEA, Onyx
- Market overview - industry & channel trends
- Why a RIP?
- Software RIP key features – How to drive our customer’s business
- Future predictions - Take LFP to new markets
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Ink Jet Applications in the Label Industry: Past, Present and Future
Jules Farkas, President, MNF Consultants
- Reasons for ink jet to move slowly into the marketplace
- What are the market drivers for the changes
- How technology advancements are driving the future of the industry
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Track 1: Office and Supplies |
Track 2: Wide Format Printing |
Track 3: Narrow Format and Specialty Printing |
| 09.45 - 10.30 |
XPS Printing – The New Printing Paradigm?
Jon Williams, Group Product Marketing Manager, Software Imaging
- How does it provide a solution?
- How does it contrast with alternate solutions?
- What will the market take-up be?
- Will it succeed at beating the established print solutions?
- How and who should take advantage of XPS
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State of the Grand Format Market, New Challenges and Opportunities
Mike Wozny, Strategic Product Marketing Manager, EFI VUTEK
- What’s on the horizon for the market?
- What are the new emerging imaging technologies?
- What are the new ink technologies?
- What is the impact if any from printer manufactures in Asia?
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A Unified Approach to Product Serialization, Product Security and Brand Awareness
Don Korn, Senior Vice President, Hyperlabel Technologies, Inc
- Item level identification using infrared printed tags
- Product security provided by digital signature authentication
- Brand awareness enhanced by hyperlinks from the packaging
- Consistent with RFID tagging, but at the cost of printing
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10.30 -11.00 |
Refreshment Break |
| 11.00 - 11.45 |
The Influence Of Pricing And Printing Pathways Solutions On Consumer Behaviour
Benoit Raimbault, Marketing Centre Director, Consumer Digital Imaging Group Eastman Kodak Company (Europe)
- Photo pricing elasticity for home consumers
- Inkjets - total cost of ownership revisited
- Where are the heavy users?
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Canon: The New Catalyst for Aqueous Large Format Print Growth
Paul Hinkins, European LFP Marketing Manager, Canon
- The status of current opinion and the market
- Canon technology and vision
- The new market
- Business strategy and activity
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The Digital Revolution for Pressure Sensitive Label Converting and Application
Dennis Shannon, COO, LaserSoft International
- Thin film impact to cost and decoration
- Digital printing in line
- Laser die cutting
- Print – cut – apply advantages
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| 11.45 - 12.30 |
Next Generation Applications in the Office – Driving Print Requirements
John Ingraham, Managing Director and Co-Founder, BlickTek
- New ”killer applications” in development
- How new applications will drive print requirements
- Printing beyond digital photography
- A look to the future
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Industrial Ink Jet Applications
Hewlett Packard
- Review and characterisation of industrial applications from the technology perspective
- HP’s approach to matching technologies and printing platforms for industrial applications
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Ink Jet Package Coding and Mail Addressing Applications
Bruno Trouve, Hewlett Packard
- Ink jet technology landscape
- Package coding and mail addressing market and applications overview
- Main market and ink jet technology trends
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13.00 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
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| 14.30 - 15.15 |
Managing Printers Across the Enterprise
Ulrike Weida-Wadenpohl, Director Enterprise Marketing, IPG EMEA Enterprise GMTU, Hewlett Packard
- The importance of the network
- How to manage a fleet across the enterprise
- How variable service offerings can benefit the enterprise
- How an optimised and well managed fleet can help improve productivity and cost
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Introducing Colour to High-Speed Document Production
Tim Taylor, Marketing Manager, EMEA, Screen Europe
- Screen technology and its connection with ink jet
- Overview of Truepress Jet 520 and the Technical Features that make the product unique
- What are the benefits of Colour
- Future Directions
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Emerging Market Opportunities for Jetting Technology
John Cook, Director, Jetting Technology Opportunities Service, InfoTrends
- Key market drivers
- Needs and desired benefits
- Applications analysis
- Operating environments
- Channels and partners
- Product and go-to-market recommendations
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| 15.15 - 16.00 |
The Necessity of Security Printing
for the Forensic Scientist Gerry LaPorte, Forensic Scientist, United States,
Secret Service
- Counterfeiting of currency and identity documents is becoming global
- There is a need for advanced security features and forensic traceability of documents
- Counterfeiting should provide opportunities for the inkjet and thermal printing industries
- The importance of forensic analysis during an investigation and in the court system
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New Media Opportunities for Solvent Ink Jet
Stan Verheijan, Director, Digital Imaging EMEA, Intelicoat
- Market Trends
- Solvent printer capabilities and advantages
- New applications and opportunities
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Moving Ink Jets from Lab to Manufacturing
Linda Creagh, Business Development Director, FUJIFILM Dimatix
- Jetting functional fluids in the lab
- Potential for ink jets in manufacturing
- Status of ink jets in manufacturing
- New technology for development and manufacturing
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| 16.00 |
Conference Adjourns |
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