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Sign of things to come: South African sustainability pioneers win FESPA Award
Wade Barlett, General Manager of Expand A Sign, on linking tailor-made branding solutions to innovative sustainable practices.


Sign of things to come: South African sustainability pioneers win FESPA Award
Wade Bartlett, General Manager of Expand A Sign, describes how a unique mini product display allowed his team to showcase its talents.

FESPA Middle East 2024 to bring together leading global suppliers and regional distributors
Global brands and local distributors are lining up to participate at FESPA Middle East 2024, taking place from 29 - 31 January at the Dubai Exhibition Centre, UAE. The event will provide a platform for technological innovation in digital wide format, screen and textile printing, as well as signage and visual communications.
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Sustainability Spotlight - environmental best practice advice for your business
Sustainability Spotlight is an ongoing feature that is presented at FESPA Global Print Expo which showcases a wide range of sustainable and environmentally responsible graphics and textile material samples.

On-Demand Printed Textiles in Western Australia: Meet Suzanne Philpot of Grateful Remnants
Based in a remote location on the tip of Western Australia, Suzanne Philpot runs a social enterprise offering on-demand digital textile printing service for the local community. A community that is predominately Aboriginal.

A World of Opportunity: Printeriors Now Offers a Permanent Online Hub for Interior Décor
Printeriors aims to inspire, the FESPA audience: bringing you a permanent showcase packed with the latest innovations, technologies and case studies and market trends.

FESPA Global Print Expo proves invaluable for FESPA Future Leader
The inaugural FESPA Future Leaders Program was launched in July 2022. 12 industry candidates were shortlisted from all the applicants to attend a 2-day leadership workshop which was held in October before the FESPA Annual Conference in Sydney.

Innovations Driving the Growth of Digital Textile Printing
Debbie McKeegan discusses how the digital textile printing market is being driven by market trends, technical innovation and new production solutions. During 2023, one of the biggest trends is how the industry is offering one-step digital textile, DTF pigment printing and the second trend is the growth in demand for DTF digital printers.

HP sponsor interview at FESPA Global Print Expo 2023
We speak to Daniel Martinez, General Manager for Large Format Printing Business at HP about their latex machines, the HP Stitch s1000 printer which is a fabric and textile dye sublimation printer perfectly suited for the soft signage and interior decor market. Daniel also comments on the HP PageWide XL Pro 8200, a large format multi-function printer that HP have stated is the fastest large format printer.
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Printed Wide Format Textiles, Soft Signage and Events Flourish Aside Technical Innovation
Soft signage and graphic textile displays have been a major driver of digital textile printing technologies since their inception some 25 years ago. As technical innovations move forward to increase print speeds, print quality and printable widths, the sector is maximising the benefits and the commercial growth that the textile marketplace offers.
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Printing High Quality Textiles on Demand with Oliver Mustoe-Playfair, co-founder of Prinfab
Prinfab was founded in 2016 by two entrepreneurial brothers - Oliver and Harry Mustoe-Playfair. Their digital textile printing business supply’s 1000’s of metres of custom printed textiles daily, to an impressive client base of over 40,000 customers.
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FESPA Global Print Expo 2023
FESPA Global Print Expo 2023 returned to Messe Munich from 23rd – 26th May.
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FESPA Global Print Expo 2023 - Day 1 Highlights
Watch the highlights to the first day of FESPA Global Print Expo 2023, Europe’s leading printing and signage exhibition!

Visitors set to gain new perspectives at FESPA Global Print Expo 2023
FESPA Global Print Expo, European Sign Expo and Personalisation Experience (23 – 26 May 2023, Messe Munich, Germany) are set to help visitors from around the world gain new perspectives on speciality print, signage and visual communications.

Direct-to-Film Technology – Shaking Things Up in Textile
Marc Verbeem, Supervisor Product Management at Mimaki Europe discusses direct-to-film technology having a transformative impact on the apparel decoration space.

The change of textile printing
Direct to garment printing has been in a state of change for some time now - a change in digitalization, and a change in flexibility. Folker Stachetzki, Head of Marketing at Brother At Your Side discusses how the textile printing sector is changing.
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Digital Printing Nudges Textile Sustainability Forwards Towards Carbon Neutrality
In the quest for printed textile sustainability, inkjet offers the printing industry, a key technology for carbon neutrality and beyond that to net-zero.
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FESPA Awards 2023 winners to be announced at FESPA Global Print Expo 2023
The FESPA Awards 2023 have now been judged by our panel of industry experts with shortlisted entries being announced. The FESPA Awards celebrates excellence in print and the accomplishments of printers and sign-makers around the world as well as recognising their talent, skill, creativity, and innovation.

Exploring Organic Cotton Certification with Juliane Ziegler of GOTS
As the textile supply chain becomes increasingly transparent, certification is now essential for production consumables and manufacturing methods. In todays podcast we talk with Juliane Ziegler of The Global Organic Textile Standard.