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 Six ways to future-proof your business against regulatory risk
Business Advice

Six ways to future-proof your business against regulatory risk

How can printers anticipate regulatory change and retain profitability?

28-11-2022
Regulatory changes for printers
Business Advice

Regulatory changes for printers

Stay on top of the forthcoming regulatory changes that may affect your business.

28-11-2022
Digital textile microfactories create resource efficiency
Tomorrow's World

Digital textile microfactories create resource efficiency

Dr Thomas Fischer, from DITF, Europe’s largest textile research centre, on analysing inputs and outputs for agile, sustainable, just-in-time fashion products.

21-10-2022
Kornit waterless technology: innovation in DTG and DTF
Tomorrow's World

Kornit waterless technology: innovation in DTG and DTF

We speak to Kornit Digital’s Scott Walton about the company’s unique waterless printing technology and how it’s answering today’s manufacturing and sustainability challenges.

21-10-2022
Alberto Masserdotti on the creative products that have inspired him
People in Print

Alberto Masserdotti on the creative products that have inspired him

The FESPA Board member discusses the creative flair and inventive use of technology that attract his attention.

23-09-2022
FESPA Print Census 2023: shaping the future
Tomorrow's World

FESPA Print Census 2023: shaping the future

Graeme Richardson-Locke, FESPA Head of Associations and Technical Lead, on why the reach of the third FESPA Print Census will be bigger and more inclusive than its predecessors – and how you can help.

23-08-2022
Restart your engines: Adobe’s new Print Engine version 6
Business Advice

Restart your engines: Adobe’s new Print Engine version 6

We speak to Mark Lewiecki, Product Manager for Adobe’s PDF Print Engine, about how the newly released version 6 will help to make wide format printing more reliable.

23-08-2022
The hazards of rare metals in printing
Business Advice

The hazards of rare metals in printing

Metals such as lithium and cobalt have been mined for batteries using child labour in dangerous working environments. How can printers keep supply chains clean?

22-08-2022
Innovations in textile printing: transparency and traceability
Tomorrow's World

Innovations in textile printing: transparency and traceability

Speaking at the FESPA Global Print Expo 2022 in Berlin, Debbie McKeegan, FESPA’s Textile Ambassador, explains how new innovations and ways of thinking are helping Europe’s textile industry become more sustainable.

25-07-2022
Celebrating talent in the Associations Pavilion at FESPA Global Print Expo 2022: Slovakia and Greece
People in Print

Celebrating talent in the Associations Pavilion at FESPA Global Print Expo 2022: Slovakia and Greece

The Associations Pavilion at the FESPA Global Expo 2022 in Berlin (31 May–3 June) will give members the opportunity to showcase samples of their work both digitally and screen printed. Visitors to the Messe Berlin will learn how diverse applications were printed and finished by members from 16 countries, including Greece and Slovakia.

22-04-2022
Meet new FESPA Board member Alberto Masserdotti
People in Print

Meet new FESPA Board member Alberto Masserdotti

Alberto Masserdotti, head of digital printing pioneer the Masserdotti Group in Italy, celebrates his appointment to the FESPA Board.

19-11-2021
Mike Scrutton, Adobe: digital print workflows and manufacturing benefits
People in Print

Mike Scrutton, Adobe: digital print workflows and manufacturing benefits

We speak with Mike Scrutton, Adobe’s Director of Print Technology and Strategy, about how digital technology has helped to keep print relevant in the modern world.

26-10-2021
The future of predictive maintenance
Tomorrow's World

The future of predictive maintenance

Durst’s strategy of using AI to fix printer problems before they arise should eliminate production down-time and open the way to the ‘smart factory’ of the future

24-05-2021
Meet the Digital Squeegee
Business Advice

Meet the Digital Squeegee

Michelle Moxley, Innovation Director at M&R Printing, explains how the Digital Squeegee and digital hybrid printing can enhance and embellish DTG work.

21-05-2021
Revolutionising retail: customer experience, personalisation and print
Tomorrow's World

Revolutionising retail: customer experience, personalisation and print

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on retail but it may have only sped up existing change.

26-04-2021
A common language for printing?
Tomorrow's World

A common language for printing?

Dr David Penfold, Edgerton Publishing Services – formerly Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts (London) and Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Business School – on standardising printing terms.

23-04-2021
How Printing SA’s new member benefits can help your business succeed
People in Print

How Printing SA’s new member benefits can help your business succeed

Four experts discuss how, in the wake of the pandemic, the organisation has raised its game to help members.

21-04-2021
PIFSA – Celebrating a milestone of 110 years
People in Print

PIFSA – Celebrating a milestone of 110 years

Printing SA's CEO, Dr. Abdool Majid Mahomed looks back on the federation's history, future and how it has remained relevant.

14-04-2021
How to maximise staff wellbeing during a pandemic
How to Guides

How to maximise staff wellbeing during a pandemic

Abdool Majid Mahomed, chief executive of Printing SA, used outreach, eLearning modules and webinars to keep member companies and employees happy, healthy and motivated during the pandemic in South Africa.

26-03-2021
A post-COVID boom in industrial printing?
Tomorrow's World

A post-COVID boom in industrial printing?

Peter Buttiens of ESMA looks at future opportunities for printers in post-COVID markets and new inroads in biomedical printing and textiles.  

23-02-2021