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9 lean manufacturing principles for Garment Decorators
Marshall Atkinson share various lean manufacturing principles to help streamline operations, reduce waste increase productivity and lower your business's costs.
Are analytics services worthwhile for wide format printing?
Nessan Cleary shares how press manufacturers are increasingly offering machine analytics services and shares if these are good value for money in the wide format sector.
Smart factories and customisation technology explored at Personalise Make Wear 2024
FESPA's Textile Ambassador, Debbie McKeegan speaks to industry specialists at Personalise Make Wear at Personalisation Experience and Sportswear Pro 2024 held in Amsterdam. Each day of the exhibitions Debbie hosted a fire-side chat with these specialists to discuss various industry topics. During this Fire-side chat with Antigro, Caldera, Print Logistics, Inkcups and Kornit Digital they discuss the role of digital technologies in personalisation, reshaping the supply chain, the future of manufacturing and more.
How to increase the efficiency of Print & Cut workflows
Print & cut is the most common workflow in digital printing. That's why manufacturers prioritise the efforts to enhance the efficiency of new products. Sonja Angerer shares the latest technologies in print & cut.
Over 75 products to be launched at FESPA Global Print 2024 and co-located events
With just a matter of days to go until doors open at the RAi Amsterdam, Rob Fletcher takes a look at some of the new launches and technology showcases visitors can look forward to at the FESPA Global Print Expo 2024, European Sign Expo 2024, Personalisation Experience 2024 and FESPA’s new exhibition, Sportswear Pro 2024.
Weaving AI into the future of fashion
Thomas Rothery, Fashion-Tech Consultant, Copper Global, has extensive experience working in the fashion industry as a menswear designer for numerous brands, including USC, Berghaus and FILA, where he led the development of metaverse strategy. Now, he’s shifting his focus to future fashion-tech by designing items for digital spaces, exploring their interaction with physical space and consulting brands on how they can tell stories across both spaces – through video games, in particular.
Sportswear Pro and co-located events to uncover innovations for on-demand garment manufacturing
With just a week to go until Sportswear Pro 2024 (19 – 22 March, RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands), a host of international exhibitors are preparing to showcase their latest technologies in garment production, design and decoration.
What parts of your print businesses should be automated?
Nessan Cleary shares the benefits and challenges for print businesses using automation in their business processes and production workflows.
Automation and AI
Paul Sherfield discusses the relationship between automation and artificial intelligence. The level of automation is dependent on the size of the businesses, the market and the technologies used.
Why is it important to automate processes around screen printing machines?
Screen printing may be a relatively manual process but there are a number of automated options available. Nessan Cleary emphasizes the importance of automating processes around screen prinitng machines in order to achieve excellent print results.
Why does automation need process control?
The digital printing industry is striving to become more automated. Sonja Angerer emphasizes the importance of process control and that without it the printing industry will struggle to progress.
ICC Colour Management: the top 4 rendering intents
Paul Sherfield details the function and the use of rendering intents when converting images to a differing colour space and which ICC profiles to use.
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.
The Trends Print Businesses Need to be Ready For
Mathew Faulkner, EMEA Marketing and Innovation Director, Wide Format Printing Group, Canon Europe shares the current print trends businesses should be prepared for. These trends include the rise in personalisation, sustainability and automation.
Durst Group starts countdown towards FESPA 2023 with Software webinars
Durst Software & Solutions provides smart and easy-to-use software solutions to optimize the printing process “from Pixel to Output”. Beginning on April 20, Serge Clauss, Product Manager, Durst Software & Solutions and Randy Baer, E-Commerce Project Manager, will host a modular webinar series, to explain in 6 steps how the Durst software can help to digitize and automate various aspects of your business.
Zünd to demonstrate digital cutting automation at FESPA 2023 in Munich
Zünd will be exhibiting at FESPA Global Print Expo in Munich from May 23 to 26. At Europe’s leading trade show for large-format digital printing, visitors will discover how innovative solutions can further automate digital cutting processes.
FESPA Global Print Expo 2023 set to welcome strong line-up of 490 international exhibitors
490 exhibiting companies are already confirmed to participate at FESPA Global Print Expo, European Sign Expo and Personalisation Experience 2023, including 95 suppliers who were unable to attend the events in the last two years due to travel restrictions.
Sustainable Manufacturing Insights, Developments, Software and Automation
As we enter the gates of an age of compliance, regulation and certification are now paramount. What we manufacture, the materials we choose, and the technology utilised must be worthy of the finest microscopic interrogation. Transparency and Traceability are the new norm and are now integral to the print supplier’s workflow.