| Mike Horsten |
 Mike Horsten - Marketing Manager - Mimaki Europe BVMr. Horsten responsibilities are to expand the Mimaki brand name, marketing digital printing and cutting solutions and to expand the Mimaki brand into becoming the industry leader in not only the Sign Graphics markets but also the Industrial printing products and the new expanding textile and apparel world. Mike has more than 25 years of production and International marketing experience. With inspirational ideas how to make vendors and suppliers work together to achieve a greener digital printing world. Horsten was founder of one of the first Green Textile printing companies in the Netherlands. He was the one of the principal architects in changing a silkscreen industry to a digitally clean textile printing business in 1999 with the transformation of Silkscreen technologies in to Dye sublimation technology. In Co-Developing the Digital Dye Sublimation technology with other industry leaders, Mike was ahead of the game. Mike was also one of the co-founders of the ColorGATE Rip software company in 1998. With a vision on how to make user friendly applications for the graphic industry he made a name for himself. As one of the first to sell HP Plotters and laminators back in 1994, Mike explored this new generation of HP products to change them into large format printing solutions, photo enlargers and to use these new machines as Pre-Press Proofers. This was the start of a new breed of Digital Print Service providers. Before this he was employed at Sun Microsystems as European Marketing Director, Product Marketing Manager for MacVONK and A-Line technologies. |
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