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most important tourist cities in China, being famous for both its natural beauty and historical and cultural heritage. Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province and is also its political, economic and cultural centre, as well as producing green tea and silk. It has a subtropical monsoon climate, covers a total area of 16,596 square kilometres and has a population of 6.08 million, including 683 square kilometres of actual city, which is home to 1.69 million people. Having agreed to support a special effects screenprinting symposium in China, my first task was to identify a printer and ink specialist who could deliver an interesting and entertaining programme for an audience of 150 Chinese printers. So who better to involve than Michal Kridel from Pasja in Poland (one of the companies that printed Sensations) and Dak Patel from Small Products (one of the sponsors of Sensations, who probably produces more special effect inks than any other ink manufacturer). We also invited our old friend Stewart Partridge from Nazdar to participate, so the stage was set for a very informative conference. Michal, Dak and I flew from London to Shanghai, arriving at the most impressive Pu Dong airport, followed by a three-hour drive in torrential rain to Hangzhou. We

arrived to a warm welcome by CSGIA representatives, who laid on a wonderful lunch. In the afternoon, we inspected the conference room and equipment and ran through the presentations with our translator, before attending a special dinner, organised by CSGIA, in recognition of the event. It was a truly memorable evening, with lots of JianNanChun (a very strong, gin like, white spirit) and conviviality, which due to our long journey, finished in good time for an early night.

I]Z :kZci The symposium started at 08.30am on Friday, to a full conference room. After formal introductions, Michal and Dak started the proceedings, using Sensations as a reference tool and, for over three hours they explained how the effects were achieved and the pages printed, while also discussing the various properties of the different inks used. The audience was both enthralled and inspired and many questions followed, with Dak and Michal advising as to type of mesh used, thread diameter etc. in respect of the samples. Dak had also brought along some other samples to illustrate effects not used in the Sensations portfolio and these also attracted much interest and provoked great debate. During the morning break,

8=G>HÂť 8DAJBC intrigued printers surrounded the sample table and kept Dak and Michal busy answering further questions. Later Stewart Partridge joined them for a question and answer session, during which many interesting technical issues were raised, so much so, that the Vice President had to wrap things up, as lunch was being served! In the afternoon, I provided an update on current FESPA activities, after which Stewart Partridge made an informative and, as always, entertaining presentation entitled “Digital Printing for Screenprinters – threat or opportunityâ€?. In the UK we were faced with a similar challenge a few years ago and now, although screenprinting is diminishing in terms of market share in Europe, the two technologies often go hand in hand for many printers. Stewart drew attention to the fact that there are huge differences between each region/country in terms of their adoption of different analogue and digital printing/imaging technologies for wide format applications, which are dependent on multiple factors, such as market history, strength of suppliers, market maturity, demands and applications. He said: s %UROPE AND 53! BOTH HAVE SIGNIlCANT graphic screen printing activity, mainly to service POP and outdoor applications s )N #HINA THE LATE DEVELOPMENT OF the outdoor advertising industry has allowed ink jet to emerge as the dominant process s )N *APAN A STRONG OFFSET INDUSTRY

combined with limited long-run retail advertising, means the graphic screenprinting sector is much weaker than others. Textile printing is rapidly progressing, with Mimaki leading the way, but now many new high productivity, high capital cost inkjet printers are also emerging with Reggiani introducing an Industrial textile machine capable of printing 150sq.m (1600sq.ft) per hr, or half a million metres per annum. Stewart added that it was now possible to print acid dyes on leather, reactive dyes on cotton, disperse dyes on polyester and reactive and acid dyes on viscose, cotton and silk. Much of this work is being pioneered in Italy. A growth in UV curable inkjet platforms with capabilities for atbed, hybrid and roll to roll from leading manufacturers of equipment has seen an increase of sales from 206 atbed machines purchased globally in 2002, to 2480 purchased globally in 2006, an incredible increase.

Now inkjet solutions are appearing for use in conjunction with home furnishings, packaging, ceramics and glass decoration and 3D applications, as well as in industrial atbeds. Stewart concluded: s FOR PRINTERS IN GRAPHIC AND TEXTILE printing, screen and inkjet are partly competitive, partly complementary – and probably the level of competition will increase; s GRAPHIC SCREENPRINTING IS STILL GROWING in Asia and USA – but not in Western Europe; s )N INDUSTRIAL MARKETS SCREEN AND INKJET are mostly viewed as complementary processes with different strengths and capabilities; s &OR INDUSTRIAL PRINTING BOTH PROCESSES will grow; s )NKJET MAY GROW FASTER FROM A SMALLER base; s 7ISE INDUSTRIAL PRINTERS SHOULD CONSIDER investing in both technologies. 4HROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EVENT *INGSONG Liu (a colleague of Stewart from Nazdar) undertook translations for everyone with total ease and professionalism. It was a pleasure to work with him and if we ORGANISE OTHER EVENTS IN #HINA ) HOPE HE will be willing to work with FESPA again.

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service expectations. However, he also cautioned against spending too much time with overly demanding, yet low- yielding customers, citing the 80/20 rule (80 percent of profit usually comes from 20 percent of the client base). He advised printers to identify that key 20 percent, in order to help them overcome the challenges resulting from overcapacity and to help maximise profitability. In today’s environmentally conscious climate, corporate sustainability is no longer a marketing buzzword. EVja BVX]^c, FESPA Consultant, a member of the United Kingdom Health & Safety Executive’s Printing Industry Advisory Committee and advisor to the European Union Environmental Agency on best environmental practices, informed delegates that more European companies now require suppliers to have green credentials to support environmental policies. One of these is legal compliance to REACH – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. Machin’s presentation set out who will be affected by REACH and the measures that they need to take in order to be compliant. FESPA’s Wide Survey, the proprietary pan-European research project into the digital wide-format printing marketplace, indicated that the top three features that buyers look for in new wide format printers are: Print Quality (89 percent); Reliability (63 percent) and; Running Costs/Cost per Square Foot (60 percent). BVg` 6aZmVcYZg, Xaar’s Marketing Director, discussed in-depth how Xaar’s

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This is reflected in exhibitor bookings, with all of the leading brands from the digital, screen and textile printing sectors eager to meet a printing community that has never previously been brought together before. Despite expanding the available space, the show is already over 70 percent sold, and features HP as its Corporate Sponsor and Xaar as its Global Technology Partner. The exhibitors will represent Australasia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, the UK and the USA- making it a truly international event. Key industry players who have recently signed up include Canon, Epson, Konica Minolta, NAZDAR, Bordeaux Inks and GCC.

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enough to know when there’s a likelihood of banding or bleeding and it’s able to adjust its dot placement and flow of ink to eliminate poor results. The other inherent benefit of i2 is the fact that it has enabled Mutoh to simplify the user-to-printer interface, removing the hit-and-miss element when choosing output resolution, number of passes and speed. The accuracy and reliability found in intelligent interweaving has eliminated many of the variables encountered when printing to different types of materials, coated or uncoated. Instead of an operator painstakingly having to pick through often complex menus and options on-screen, Mutoh has developed its own method of making sure the best mode is selected for each job. Factored in are options such as optimum viewing distance, image type and content and overall quality requirements. Heintjens explains: “For displays which contain large areas of solid colours and text and, perhaps, graduated tints, we have configured a ‘Sign’ option. This concentrates on higher quality, necessary for blocks of colours, graphics and text. For faster output which is well suited to the output of half-tones and photographic elements, there is the ‘Picture’ option.” However, despite this facility, Heintjens points out that many advanced operators want to maintain full control over the settings they plan to use. Thus, manual configuration is also available. With intelligent interweaving now incorporated into a growing number of printers in the Mutoh portfolio, it originally coincided with the launch of the Blizzard machines that were launched in 2007. This product line incorporates the company’s latest eco-solvent ink technology as well as i2, but it has the added benefit that users can upgrade these

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