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There are no translations available.  FESPA Fabric will host an insightful learning stream on every day of the show designed to educate and invigorate: The Textile Talk Theatre will offer free interactive workshops and insightful presentations on a range of apparel sectors to allow you to Explore the Wider Garment Opportunities.Leading garment expert Scott Fresner will chair the sessions presented by an international line up of industry specialist including; Jimmy Lamb and Ed Levy, two of the decorated apparel industry’s most knowledgeable and entertaining educators, global screen printing expert Mark Gervais and our very own Dr Print, Charlie Taublieb. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear them share their knowledge and expertise on print and pre-press techniques, technological developments and trends for direct-to-garment digital printing, screen printing and much more. Textile Talk Theatre Programme Tuesday 21st February 11.00-11.30 Secrets of High-End Screen Printing on Garments If you really want to go to the next level, you should attend this seminar. Scott Fresener is a leading authority on high-end screen printing. You will learn the tips of the pros about tweaking the original artwork, making a good set of colour separations, using the right mesh and making the perfect screen, proper ink use and press setup - plus a lot more. Scott Fresener, T-Biz Network International 11.30-12.00 High Fashion at Home How Print Unlimited collaborates with designers to produce high quality fashionable products for the home. Jos Bastiaans will discuss how his business allows them to make their creative designs a reality through digitally printed materials. Our expert speaker will explain the benefits and challenges of this exciting mass market opportunity. Jos Bastiaans, Owner, Print Unlimited 12.00-12.30 Great Prints Start with a Great Screen The key to a great print is often the screen. Even with a good set of color separations, if the screen is not made properly, or the mesh count is wrong, or the screen maker is not able to hold find lines and halftone dots - you will have a poor print. Charlie Taublieb is an expert in garment printing and will take you through fundamentals all the way to the secrets of holding fine lines and small halftone dots. Charlie Taublieb, Taublieb Consulting. 12.30-13.00 Mass customization and the digital supply chain Examining the integration of digital printing and single-ply cutting and highlighting issues related to pattern development, dimensional change of fabric, piece registration of cutting systems and developments in ink chemistry for digital printing. Can they all reinforce the transition to a totally digital supply chain that supports mass customization and sustainability at the same time? Dr Mike Fralix, President and CEO, TC² 13.00-13.30 The State of Direct-to-Garment Printing – Today and Beyond Has all the negative talk made you scared to make the move to digital direct-to-garment? Scott Fresener is going to tell you of his experiences in getting garment decorators to talk digital and embrace the challenges they face when digital is introduced into their shop. Learn where we are today and what the future holds. What have we learned in the last six years? Scott Fresener who led the charge and is considered a pioneer/visionary tells what the past taught us and how we will move digital direct-to-garment printing to be a mainstay imprinting method. Learn what is on the drawing board, how we can increase speed, get ink costs down and overcome past obstacles. Scott Fresener, T-Biz Network International 14.00-15.00 Success in starting a decorated apparel business. Join Jimmy Lamb and Ed Levy, two of the decorated apparel industry’s most sought after, knowledgeable and entertaining educators in a hands on decorated apparel workshop that not only explains how to get started in the decorated apparel industry but also incorporates real world projects in embroidery, sublimation and mixed media. The unique teaching style, interaction and hands on experience will leave you wanting more and more from these two great educators. 1. Understand the proper use of underlay, pull compensation and density. 2. Create designs with modern technology but using time tested techniques. 3. Understand why to push buttons rather than how to push them. Ed Levy President, Digitize4u, Inc and EmbForum and Jimmy Lamb, Manager of Education & Communications, Sawgrass Technologies 15.00-15.30 Key Control Points for Successful Screen Printing Global screen printing expert Mark Gervais, will explore how he achieves the effects and results that set Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co Ltd at the very top of the screen printing community. Mark will share insight and help you overcome your obstacles and differentiate your business offerings. Mark Gervais, Director of Screen Print, Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co Ltd 15.30-16.30 Decorating Diversity Do you want to bring a new level of excitement to your customer presentations. Learn the 10 main forms of decorating processes and how you can incorporate them into your business. Whether you plan to add diversification in house or outsource it, this class will open your eyes to new techniques and revitalize your customers desire to buy. 1. Effectively communicate with customers about various embellishment techniques. 2. Identify new markets to sell embellished products to stimulate sales. 3. Bring new excitement to existing customers through new embellishment processes. Ed Levy President, Digitize4u, Inc and EmbForum and Jimmy Lamb, Manager Of Education & Communications, Sawgrass Technologies  Textile Talk in partnership with WTiN Wednesday, February 22nd 11.00-11.05 Welcome John Scrimshaw, Editor, Digital Textile 11.05- 11.45 Digital Textile Printing –A Vision of the Future John will highlight the global technical developments in the digital textile industry, particularly in the high production digital textile machine areas, which are using industrial print heads to increase production speeds, the presentation will review the future direction and opportunities, digital textile printing technology will offer the screen printer in the coming years. Estimates of the global market size of the digital textile market will be made, together with the key technology drivers of the various digital textile printing markets. John Provost, Technical Editor, Digital Textile, and Consultant 11.45-12.10 Market developments in retail soft signage Aesthetic and environmental considerations are combining to make soft signage an attractive choice for retail signage and advertising and the growth in this market has encouraged investment in technical development by printer and ink manufacturers. This presentation will examine the market background and identify some of the current and future opportunities for PSP’s. Mike Horsten, Marketing Manager, Mimaki Europe 12.10-12.35 Fabrics and necessary pretreatment for digital inkjet printers The importance and effect on quality of fabric pretreatment for digital textile printing, including a discussion of whether pigment printing can really be wholly reliable on untreated fabric. Thomas Poetz, Chairman, 3P Inkjet Textiles 12.35- 13.00 The Middle East: Our First Steps towards change Mermaid’s initiative to introduce digital fabric printing to the Middle East, a region that was limited to conventional methods of printing; its endeavour to attract people to this technology with a versatile product line, also encouraging the ‘go green’ initiative; Mermaid’s growth from 1 machine 3 people in 2005 to an International company with an 85-employee factory covering the UAE, Qatar and Oman, as well as 4 offices and another factory in India with 70 people. Biju Thomas, Director, Mermaid Digital 13.00-13.30 Panel session – wide and grand format printing for banners 13.30-14.30 Lunch break 14.30- 14.55 Digital Sublimation: Not Only Sportswear An overview of the great number of applications possible with this versatile printing technique: from sportswear to flags and banner. Italo will explore the many market sectors which are covered by digital sublimation analyzing the differences in applications, volumes, printing technique – transfer and direct, as well as future opportunities. Italo Mariani, Marketing & Sales Director, J-Teck3 14.55-15.20 Is India geared up for the digital textile printing revolution? An overview of the Indian conventional and digital textile printing market; the future of digital textile printing in India; major digital printing equipment and ink manufacturers present; key issues that need to be addressed for this technology to be successful in India. Aditya Chandarvarkar, CEO, Inkjet Forum India 15.20-15.45 Digital sublimation printing: a sustainable success story From a small niche in the traditional textile printing, sublimation printing has evolved in a decade to become the largest segment in the digital textile printing industry. The advent of fast printers based on the newest industrial print heads will certainly restore the balance in the market share distribution of the different textile ink chemistries. However, the future of sublimation printing remains bright as the intrinsic advantages of this printing process find an echo in today's concerns around health and environmental issues. This presentation will show how sublimation arrived the point it is today and why it is believed to successfully take up the future challenges proposed by the fast growing digital textile printing industry. Dr Martial Blanc, Marketing Director, Sensient 15.45-16.10 Digital printing on textile: Dye sub or UV? Among the different technologies to print on textile, the question is: which to use where? Many print providers have experience with different technologies. Some can lead to success; others can give you a headache. This comprehensive explanation of the technologies will help print service providers to avoid reinventing the wheel. Mike Wozny, Strategic Product Manager, EFI VUTEk 16.10-16.35 How a changing shirt market supports the direct digital trend The digital printing market is changing. As a manufacturer we need to adjust our resources to focus on what is valued by the end user, with personalization, small lots, high precision, fast delivery, low pollution, unique characteristics, speed and low cost. Joseph will explore new emerging demands and markets, the evolution of technology into new product development and eco-friendly product lines we will describe how continuous improvement of digital-printing technology will give traditional textile printing a hitherto unknown development opportunity and change the current textile-printing situation. Josep Domingot, Vice-President, Business Development, AnaJet 16.35-17.00 Panel session – opportunities and barriers in digital garment printing  Textile Talk in partnership with Fedustria Thursday 23rd February 11.00-11.15 Chairman’s opening remarks Caroline Sonneville, Fedustria, Export Promoter Technical Textiles and Philippe Six, Fedustria, Economic Advisor 11.15-11.45 Eye-catching Communications Engage with one of the leading European providers of inflatables and visual communications. Hear how ‘X-Treme’ has grown into a hugely successful company within such a niche arena creating exciting products for some of the world’s most leading and successful brands including Unilever and Heinz. Dan Vandevoorde, Managing Director, X-Treme and Suyin Aerts, Sales & Finance, X-Treme 11.45-12.15 Aesthetic Fabrics for Digital Printing - from yarn to image During this presentation Dirk will explore a variety of available commercial ink technologies and their behavior on textiles. He will explore the development and impact of raw materials and the trade-offs in the selection of the right fabric for the right application. Dirk De Locht, Business Development Manager, Concordia 12.15-12.45 Think added value in outdoor textile communication and POP Vincent Delvaux, Managing Partner, Creaset 12.45-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14.00 Fedustria (Belgian Textile Federation) and “Visualtex cluster” presentation Fedustria represents the textile, woodworking and furniture industry’s companies. In Belgium, these sectors generate a turnover of 11.2 billion €. The Belgian textile industry accounts for a 6 billion € turnover and employs 24,220 people in 800 companies. Fedustria has developed a set of approaches about the theme “textile medium”, included all the scopes of textile as communication, promotion and information medium. Textile is available under many facets and suits perfectly as a medium of choice for visual communication:, banners, streamers, rugs and carpets, displays, flags, sport gears, mode and ready-to-wear, tents, 3D inflatable structures, stand layout and equipment. The development of new technologies enables quasi-unbounded creativity and flexibility. Visualtex aims to unite a maximum of players involved in production, design, realization, implementation or use of the “textile medium”. Today Visualtex cluster is based on an already well established network of 30 economic operators. Caroline Sonneville, Fedustria, Export Promoter Technical Textiles and Philippe Six, Fedustria, Economic Advisor 14.00-14.30 Digital Printing … Think New Materials Professor Marc Van Parys will highlight new and recent developments in digital printing of different kinds of textile articles, developed in their laboratory, together with companies, machine constructors and product developers. He will explore recent innovations in the creation of new UV inks and lacquers tailor made for digital printing on textile. Marc Van Parys, Professor, University (Hogeschool) of Gent 14.30-15.00 Tendancies in printed technical textiles This presentation will share the results of their own survey which deals with technological, sociological, geographical and ecological trends and changes for a better understanding of the future market needs. Yves Luckx, Sales Manager, Sioen Industries 15.00-15.00 Coffee break 15.15-15.45 Man as the measure of all things Bio-Racer is a manufacturer of custom made sportswear, mainly in cycling apparel, using sublimation technique. The hart of the company has been screen print using both half – automatic machines (own production) and a full automatic machines (subcontracting). Digital sublimation printing was introduced in the very beginning of the introduction of the technique and has been gradually introduced into our workflow.. During the year we have found solutions for every issue that arose (matching colors with screen-print, matching gradients, RIP software issues, drying problems, sublimation efficiency …). Danny Segers, Managing Director, Bioracer 15.45-16.15 Innovative garment textile printing Alain Jacques, Managing Director, 4eme Dimension 16.15-16.45 Textile layout of space Jean-Jacques Marchal, Executive Director Sales & Design, Conceptexpo 16.45-17.00 Panel session and closure remarks Scott Fresener, T-Biz Network International Textile Talk programme Friday 24th February 11.00-11.30 Manual Colour Separations in Adobe Photoshop There are a lot of automated color separation programs on the market but sometimes you really want to know how to do it. In this short session you will learn basic techniques for creating channel separations in Adobe Photoshop including creating underbases and highlights. Plus you will get dozens of Photoshop tips and tricks. Scott Fresener, T-Biz Network International 11.30-12.00 Adding Depth and Dimension to a Design This session will dissect a frog (an embroidered one) and teach key principles of turning a dull one dimensional design into a design that comes to life. Shhh... This is one class you don't want your competition to see as it will help you "leap" ahead in creativity. Learning Objectives… Attendees will be able to: 1. Change the way they think about design creation. 2. Digitize a design more accurately and with fewer edits. 3. Use depth and dimension instead of color changes to add life to a design. Ed Levy, President at Digitize4u, Inc. / EmbForum and Jimmy Lamb, Manager Of Education & Communications, Sawgrass Technologies 12.00-12.30 Special Effects Inks - Update The days of a plain T-Shirt are over. Shirts with specialty inks are still hot and in this short seminar Charlie is going to give you quick insights in how to get good results and the latest trends and tips when using gels, discharge, high density, burn-out and more in this fast paced seminar. Take your prints to the next level with these great special effects and then go by Charlie’s Corner and see these inks in action. Charlie Taublieb, Taublieb Consulting 12.30-13.00 Making the Move from Screen Printing to Direct-to-Garment Printing Has all the negative talk made you scared to make the move to digital direct-to-garment? Scott Fresener is going to tell you of his experiences in getting screen printers to talk digital and embrace the challenges they face when digital is put in a garment screen printing shop. Scott Fresener, T-Biz Network International 13.30-14.00 Digital textile printing & finishing - the route to a sustainable industry? Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important factor in the textile industry due to concerns about water and energy usage, more stringent waste regulations across the world and consumer pressure. This talk will discuss the contribution digital inkjet technology can make as viable, sustainable option for industrial textile printing compared with traditional printing methods and look at how the concept of ‘digital finishing’ promises to make a real difference in the future. Simon Daplyn, Xennia Technology 13.30-14.00 Cause and Effect – Machine Maintenance for Direct-to-Garment Printers In retail is it location, location, location. In digital direct-to-garment it is maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. Scott will talk about simple daily, weekly and monthly things you can do to keep your direct-to-garment printer happy and making money. Scott Fresener, T-Biz Network International *All Sessions are FREE to attend. 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