FESPA 2010 attracts decisive global audience focused on future success 
Record number of FESPA visitors now coming to make decisions on digital
More than 21000 individual visitors from 130 countries flocked to FESPA 2010 in Munich, Germany, last week (21-26 June 2010), looking for innovative solutions and applications to help their wide-format businesses ride the wave to business success.   More than half of all visitors extended their stay beyond one day, taking total attendance to 32504 visits read more...

2010 Awards Showcase the innovation of FESPA's global print community! 
The top winners of FESPA’s 2010 Awards received their prizes at the Gala Dinner at Munich’s Nockherberg on Friday 25th June. Read more... 

First Fespa Fabric Event Gathers Global Community of Garment Specialists
The first dedicated FESPA Fabric event took place in Munich, Germany, last week within the FESPA 2010 exhibition (22-26 June 2010) Read more...

IT’S A WRAP: SQUEEZY INTERNATIONAL CROWNED FESPA WRAP STAR 2010
30 skilled vehicle wrappers competed in the FESPA 2010 Wrap Cup competition to win the title of FESPA Wrap Star and a share of 182,500€ worth of prizes read more...

Visitor Information:

FESPA is the number ONE show for global imaging. FESPA has an unrivalled heritage for providing visitors with access to the most comprehensive and inspirational array of live imaging innovation.

FESPA 2010 features all the very latest technological developments and is the global meeting point for all members of the imaging community.

FESPA 2010 is an opportunity for you to gain an insight into the latest technologies and their practical implementation via the industry experts who have designed and produced them.

"3 Amazing Shows - 1 Spectacular Event"

FESPA 2010 took place at the Messe Munich International Trade Fair, a state of the art facility providing exhibitors and visitors with a modern and inspiring environment to showcase new products and to discover new technologies. 

 FESPA 2010 Exhibitors.pdf 

FESPA Digital - Halls B1, B2, B3
Digital inkjet technology continues to innovate at an amazing rate, pushing the creative and business potential of digital print into new and diverse areas.

The digital halls alone will be the largest gathering of technology in the world in 2010. Hall B3 will also feature the very latest in print finishing and displays.

FESPA Fabric - Hall A2
As the demand for garment decoration, textile printing and innovation races ahead, hand in hand with the continued need to look good, whatever the economic conditions! 'Fabric' continues to be a growth area within our market sector.

This year 'Fabric' comes into its own. With one hall dedicated to a rapidly expanding sector, FESPA Fabric is the largest and most important event in Europe for garment and textile decoration.

The central hub of FESPA Fabric will be the Fabric Bar featuring 'Fabric Live' our very own fashion show, where you can see innovative creations from leading brands.

FESPA Screen - Hall A1
At FESPA 2010, the screen printing hall is the most important showcase of screen printing graphic and industrial production in Europe.

In 2010 the screen printing halls will boast technology, machinery, consumables, inks, pad printing and associated solutions from a wide range of exhibitors, who provide everything from high impact print solutions and finishes, through to an unrivalled list of industrial applications.

Sponsors:

Corporate Sponsor	Platinum Sponsor
Global Technology Partner	Innovation Sponsor
Corporate Sponsor	Digital Textile Sponsor
Fabric Corporate Sponsor	Fabric Platinum Sponsor

Innovation Theatres:

FESPA has organised a programme of daily innovation seminars in the Digital Innovation Theatre and Screen & Textile Innovation Theatre.

These sessions will inspire and educate; with the latest developments in the market, innovative products, live debates, case studies and technical seminars. And they are FREE to attend!

A special presentation on How to Innovate will be also delivered by FESPA.
Please click here to find out more information.

Get more value from your visit to FESPA 2010. View the programme timetable here:  Innovation Theatre Programme

FESPA Satellite Events: 

A program of tailored specialist events hosted by organisations who want to share their products, ideas or innovations with the global imaging community during the show. Each one is designed to enrich the visitor experience at FESPA 2010...

Innovate! Key Note
FESPA Key Note Session - 22nd June 2010
Nils Müeller, TrendOne will deliver a high energy keynote session into the future of the printed world. A select group of visitors will benefit from this awesome session and discover  print’s place in the future of communications.  Augmented reality and embedded visual content are just some of the features of this future vision. 
 
FESPA Stand Debates

THE GREAT INNOVATION DEBATE

Innovation is the watchword for FESPA 2010. Continuing the Wide Network debate about the meaning of innovation and how to foster and apply innovation in your business, this is your chance to take part in THE live debate!
Chaired by: Duncan Macowan, Conference and Events Manager, FESPA

Panellists: Marcus Timson (Sales and Marketing Director FESPA), Lascelle Barrow (Augustus Martin Ltd, FESPA Board Member), Nicolas Hellmuth (Founder, President and Director of FLAAR), Roland Niggemeyer (Niggemeyer Bildproduktion GmbH & Co KG), Johannes Kemnitzer (Martin Et Karczinski), J.R Kraft (Co-Founder, Owner, BuildASign.com)

About the Panellists:

Lascelle Barrow - Lascelle co-founded Augustus Martin Limited at the age of 19, following his technical education at the London College of Printing. Now one of the Europe’s leading specialists in POS and outdoor advertising with a turnover of £35 million and a staff of 300, Augustus Martin was the first UK printer to use water-based UV screen inks, and has pioneered the introduction of new technology to the POS industry for over three decades. The company, a major employer and supporter of local charities in London’s East End, serves mainly UK-based customers, while also exporting globally on behalf of multinationals.
Lascelle’s professional focus is on innovation and the commercialisation of new technology and products. This interest is brought to bear in three professional roles; primarily as joint Managing Director of Augustus Martin, but also as chairman of print finisher TJ Finishing Ltd and chairman of speciality inks producer Small Products Ltd.
Married with six children, Lascelle enjoys spending any precious spare time on the golf course or on the ski piste, and supporting the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to motivate young people.

Dr Nicholas Hellmuth dedicates his time to preparing evaluations of wide-format printers, inks, substrates, RIP software, flatbed cutters and CNC routers, laminators, professional digital photography and flatbed scanning equipment, and 3D scanning and 3D rapid prototyping printers. The purpose is to assist printshop owners and managers to learn about the pros and cons of wide-format inkjet printers, especially UV-curable flatbeds, but also solvent, eco, mild-, lite-, and bio-solvent printers, as well as water-based inks for textiles, giclee, and fine art photography. Nicholas obtains his information by spending time inspecting the printers inside the factories where they are manufactured, in Canada, Israel, Europe, US, Korea, China or Taiwan.
Dr Hellmuth then visits printshops around the world to interview the owners and printer operators to learn the good features as well as issues, quirks, and deficiencies of each printer, ink and substrate. Overall his documentation and comments on printers are read by over 470,000 people on UV and solvent printers, over one million people on water-based printers, inks and media, as well as about 400,000 photographers and over 150,000 artists who wish to learn about printing decor and giclee.

Roland Niggemeyer - Together with his brother-in-law, Mr. Peter Schütte, They are the leading company since 1995. His responsibility covers the internal affairs, personal & finances, Roland takes care of key account, sales and strategy. The company grew in the past 4 years up to 60 employees, more than doubling its size compared to the year 2000.  They cover the full range of large format printing: XXL, Textile, Rigid and Fine-Art Printing. They won the german digital-printing award in 2008 and were runner up of the FESPA textile award in 2009.
His hobbies are sports (tennis, skiing and fitness) and my family with 3 children.

Johannes Kemnitzer - Born 1981 in Starnberg, Germany
Apprenticeship and graduation as a Media Designer for Print / DTP Operator in Augsburg
Working as a DTP Operator for 2 years in Augsburg Studies and graduation as a Communications Designer (FH) in Augsburg and Montréal Awarded Diploma on “Flow Rate - The subjetive perception of time.” Working as Freelance Designer and DTP Operator for 1 year in Augsburg, Zurich and London.
Working as Designer and Print Controller at Martin et Karczinski in Munich since 2009
Martin et Karczinsk is an award-winning design-agency focused on corporate identity and brand strategy.

INTERVIEW WITH SCREEN LEGEND - MICHEL CAZA

Hi-Tech screen printer since 1954 (he started in Sweden) Michel Caza became something like the « wizard, Pope, Guru » – it depends of countries – of screen printing.
Caza owned several companies, the last one was Graficaza (created 1983), devoted to industrial graphic screen printing and manufacturing POP/POS, until 2004 when he sold it.
He was also – and still is – an « Art Master screen printer » and he was working 40 years with the most famous artists in the whole world
Graficaza, was famous for the high quality of jobs produced and won around 350 Awards between 1983 and 2004 in the American and European Awards Competitions. Now his best pupils across the world win too…a lot of Awards!
Specialist and pioneer of UV technologies since 1976 for screen printing and 1996 for digital printing, he was also the very first to screen print 300lines/inch (120/cm) halftones ne of the founder of FESPA (1962), he has been its President between 1996 and 2002 and, since 1994, he was preaching for a total integration of the wide format digital printing by companies of which the « core business » was screen printing, explaining that those technologies were complementary to each other and « Brothers, rather than enemies » (one of his famous conference) and, in an historic article from 1994, he wrote : « Don’t be afraid of digital technology : BUY IT! » He has been participating to the elaboration of extremely sophisticated improvements of the printing technology, in the fields, of UV in screen (1976) and 1996 in digital). He is working on the print sequences and ICC profiles, colour spaces and control of the files in screen and digital. He wrote a lot of books and now CDs about the technology.. He now works as a consultant in screen & digital printing technologies, in his small company « Michel Caza Eurl ». Still at the FESPA Board, he works a lot for FESPA as technical writer, speaker for conferences, workshops and seminars all over the world, being specially devoted to high technology in all fields of applications, environmental problems and marketing
He has been also President of the French Screen Printing Digital Printing Association until 2005 and Chairman of the ASPT (SGIA Academy of Screen Printing Technology until 2006.

GLOBAL GURUS DEBATE

Discussion topic: Screen Printing is Dead! Digital is the future... 

Moderated by: 
Frazer Chesterman, Managing Director - Exhibitions & Events, FESPA

Chaired by: Michel Caza, FESPA Board Member
Panellists:
Charlie Taublieb, Taublieb Consulting - Screen Printing
Bharghav Mistry, DMI - Screen Printing
Alex Zuckerman, ASPT - Screen Printing
Michael O Ryan, Sampco Companies/Brilliant Graphics Group - Digital Printing
Tim Greene, InfoTrends - Digital Printing/Research

Charlie Taublieb has been in the screen printing industry since 1976 and is the owner of Taublieb Consulting, Greenwood Village, Colorado, a company that specializes in technical screen printing consulting-i.e. evaluating a shop’s efficiency, designing and laying out floor plans for new and existing facilities, instituting quality control programs and working with companies on improving their technical abilities.
Taublieb has been a consultant for over 30 years and has worked in shops throughout the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. He owned Great American Screen Designs, Ltd., an automated screenprinting facility in Brooklyn, New York and Bullseye Screen Printing Supplies, Inc., a screenprinting supply company in Denver, Colorado.
Currently, Charlie conducts the Screen Printing Technical Foundation’s workshop on Specialty Inks: Enhance Your Textile Prints and conducts the Advanced Garment Printers workshop which is conducted at various shops in the US and Canada. Currently, Charlie is a technical consultant/advisor for Hirsch International. He also writes technical articles for some industry publications in the US and overseas and has authored dozens of articles covering a variety of technical subjects and printing techniques. He started the “Hands-On Screen-printing
Workshop” for the Imprinted Sportswear Shows in 1985. Taublieb has conducted workshops and seminars at the SGIA Shows, FESPA Europe and India, Bobbin Shows in the US, Mexico and Brazil, imageWorld Shows in Mexico City, CommuniquezTextile in France, imageWear Expos and the DAX Shows. Charlie was voted “Top Industry Consultant” the last time the survey was conducted.
Charlie Taublieb is a member of the Academy of Screen Printing Technology.
Taublieb has judged the Golden Image Awards often since their inception and has covered a variety of categories. He won several Golden Image Awards when he was a printer. He is also a judge for the Impressions Awards conducted through the Imprinted Sportswear Shows.
Charlie is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science in Fine Art. He majored in painting with a minor in print making and drawing. Charlie is currently a member of CORE New Art Space where he exhibits his paintings and artwork.

Bharghav  Mistry - Director of DMI, Asia’s one and only training institute for screen printers with all modern infrastructure. Over 500 printing professionals and students took part in his advance in screen-printing. DMI has won many national and international awards and laurels (including at FESPA and SGIA/ASPT events).

Alex Zuckerman - Founded FIMOR in 1977, which is now the largest exporter of squeegee rubber for screen printing industry worldwide (exports in 85 countries). Total FIMOR employees on 4 main sites (FRANCE, GERMANY, USA, CHINA) : 85 (in 2009) Headquarters : LE MANS (200 km West of PARIS) where 100% of the squeegees are currently manufactured.
FIMOR has patented in various countries approximately 10 different inventions, mostly developed by A. ZUCKERMAN. FIMOR pioneered in 1998 the "triple hardness squeegee" and the non-bending construction known as "serilor® COMBI".
Besides squeegee rubber and sharpeners, FIMOR has separate divisions devoted to electronic keyboards, misc passive electronic components, and PU rubber industrial applications.
Alex ZUCKERMAN was until 2001 Vice-President of the European Screen Printing Manufacture Association (ESMA) and Chairman of the Industrial Application Committee. Hobbies include: skiing, tennis, hiking, literature, language studies, theater and movies. Alex has 3 children : Manuel (VP of the FIMOR Group), Lola and Ilya.

Michael O. Ryan is the founder and CEO of Sampco Companies/Brilliant Graphics Group. Mr. Ryan was introduced to the building material industry while working for Owens Corning and GE Plastics. Ryan identified an opportunity to focus on a niche business that was dominated by a host of small regional sample manufacturers and began producing samples in his garage in Denver, Colorado in 1986.
Sampco Companies™ proudly serves the nation from five strategic production and fulfilment facilities in the U.S. including Georgia, Nevada, Texas, with Corporate Headquarters in Massachusetts. Sampco and Brilliant Graphics have 300 dedicated employees. The companies’ “reach” includes international customers as well.
Mr. Ryan has completed six strategic “add on” acquisitions during the past 12 years. Ryan’s team has expanded the business organically to include many nationally recognized building material industry leaders in segments such as ceramic tile, siding, decking, brick, hardwood flooring, stone, block, acoustical tile and insulation samples to name a few.
In 2007, Ryan launched an exciting new business venture, Brilliant Graphics Group, LLC, which focuses on state-of-the-art 3D high resolution flat-bed scanning, large format printing and laser imaging.
Mr. Ryan earned his Bachelor’s Degree in business administration with a minor in marketing from the University of Denver. Ryan competed at the collegiate level in both soccer and skiing.
Prior to starting Sampco Companies™ Mr. Ryan held positions in sales and marketing with Owens Corning and GE Plastics. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for employee owned Marland Mold. He is a member of The American Management Association, The Specialty Graphics Imaging Association, The National Roofing Contractors Association, The Federal European Screen Print Association, The National Association of Manufacturers, The Brick Institute of America and the prestigious Global Imaging and Graphics Association (GIGA).

Tim Greene is the Director of InfoTrends' Wide Format Printing Consulting Service. Director since 2001, Mr. Greene develops InfoTrends’ market forecasts and conducts primary research on the different segments of the wide format markets. Mr. Greene is often published in large format industry leading publications and has been a columnist in ST Publications’ Screen Printing magazine and IFAI’s Fabric Graphics magazine. As an analyst Greene has presented market trends and analysis at major industry events such as FESPA, SGIA and On Demand, and has delivered extensive custom consulting projects worldwide. Before joining InfoTrends in 1997, Mr. Greene spent three years performing primary and secondary market research in the information technology industry as a Research Analyst for BIS Strategic Decisions and Giga Information Group. Mr. Greene holds a B.S.B.A. Degree in Management (cum laude) from Northeastern University in Boston.


FESPA Fabric - Click here for more information FESPA Fabric

Fresener's Fabric Programme

Scott Fresener and colleagues will be delivering master classes on the processes of garment decoration; trends and future developments; new technologies and applications.

Tuesday 22 Jun 2010 
  
 10:30 - 11:10  Manual Color Separations in Photoshop for Garments
Mr Robert Deppner
 
 11:25 - 12:25  Screen Making Pitfalls to Avoid When Printing Water Based and Discharge Ink
Mr Dave Dennings
 
 12:20 - 13:00  Special Effects for Garment Screen Printing
Mr Charlie Taublieb
 
 13:15 - 13:55  Computer-To-Screen
Mr Geoff McCue
 
Wednesday 23 Jun 2010
 10:30 - 11:10  Making the move from Screen Printing to Direct-to-Garment
Mr Scott Fresener

Has all the negative talk made you scared to make the move to digital direct-to-garment?
 
 11:25 - 12:05  Top Ten Secrets of Halftone Screen Printing
 
 12:20 - 13:00  Cause and Effect - Machine Maintenance for Direct-to-Garment
Mr Scott Fresener

In retail is it location, location, location.
 
 13:15 - 13:55  Multi-Color Screen Printing on Dark Shirts
Mr Charlie Taublieb

Have you seen amazing photorealistic images on dark shirts and wondered how they did it?
 
Thursday 24 Jun 2010
 10:30 - 11:10  High Production with Direct-to-Garment
Mr Scott Fresener

How do the large companies like Zazzle, Cafe Press, Spreadshirt and others gain high production using digital direct-to-garment machines?
 
 11:25 - 12:05  Getting Creative with Heat Transfers
Mr Robert Deppner
 
 12:20 - 13:00  Printing Discharge Ink on Garments
Mr Jeff Proctor
 
 13:15 - 13:55  How to Compete in the Changing Competitive Embroidery World

Are you struggling to make money with embroidery? Are there market niches you need to find? Can you improve productivity and reduce downtime?
 
Friday 25 Jun 2010
 10:30 - 11:10  The State of Direct-to-Garment - Today and Beyond
Mr Scott Fresener
 
 11:25 - 12:05  Other Opportunities in Digital Textile Printing
Mrs Sophie Matthews-Paul

Are you missing opportunities in digital textile printing? Sophie Mathews-Paul is going to take you on a short thrill ride of opportunities to help you increase market share with innovative thinking. 
 
 12:20 - 13:00  Profitability in a Changing World
 
 13:15 - 13:55  Plastisol Ink - Changes, the Environment, and the Law
Mr Charlie Taublieb
 
Saturday 26 Jun 2010
 10:30 - 11:10  Advances in Ink & Pretreatments for Direct-to-Garment
Mr Scott Fresener
 
 11:25 - 12:05  The State of Digital Fabric Printing Today and Beyond
Mr Vince Cahill
 
 12:20 - 13:00  The Future of Print Head Technology for Digital Textile
Mr Vince Cahill

FESPA Wrap Cup!

One of the most exciting satellite events at FESPA 2010.

Two Mustang Convertibles will be displayed and wrapped on the event booth. During this contest the major task is to wrap the designanted area of the vehicle in the highest possible quality and the second task will be speed.

64 highly skilled vehicle wrappers from Europe will compete for huge prizes!

For more information click here FESPA Wrap Cup

Planet Friendly Summit

“It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline” - President Barack Obama

The Planet Friendly Summit, June 24th, 2010, in Munich, is carefully designed to give you not just a strategic overview of the drivers for adopting sustainable business practices, but also a plethora of ‘how to’ information so you can begin, or enhance, the environmental sustainability of your business. A host of industry leaders will gather to engage with the clutch of expert speakers FESPA has brought together to debate they key sustainability issues from a business perspective.


Sessions will cover:
• The drivers for implementing sustainable practices in your business
• Case study from a leading printer
• Overview of what corporate customers are looking for in sustainability terms
• Insight into forthcoming legislation from European Union

The formal presentations conclude with a chance for you to engage with the clutch of expert speakers we have assembled to bring you the latest thinking on this crucial area. All provided in an environment conducive to networking with your peers.

Sponsor Partner:

Photos:

A selection of terrific images from our visit to Messe Munich...

Opening Ceremony	Around The Halls
Wrap Cup	FESPA Stand And Events
Gala Night	Fashion Show
FESPA Awards

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FESPA Awards

Recognising and rewarding print excellence. Come and view some of the most innovative and inspiring pieces of print in the world.

For more information click here FESPA Awards


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