FuturePrint Industrial Print: New Year, New Tech, New Focus, New Format = New Connections
Turning the dials for sustained success
As we enter a new year, many of us reset our ambitions - in business, in health, or both. Some of these well-intentioned goals will stick. Many, however, will not survive beyond February.
If January is the month of renewal. Then February is the month of reality.
Take gym memberships. Every January, sign-ups surge as people attempt to regain control after an indulgent festive break. But momentum fades quickly. By the end of the month, many routines have already lapsed, and within six months the majority of new members have dropped out. The reasons are familiar: unrealistic expectations, lack of visible progress, intimidation, or simply the absence of a workable strategy.
The problem is not intent. It is design.
People set ambitious goals and expect rapid results. Exercise then becomes punishment rather than nourishment. What should feel like self-care quickly turns into a chore. Unsurprisingly, most people revert to familiar comfort zones. The approach is unsustainable.
Atomic Habits: Multiple dials turning 1% = Significant transformation over time.
Small change beats heroic effort
This is where the thinking in Atomic Habits by James Clear becomes so powerful, precisely because it is not dramatic.
Clear’s central argument is simple and deeply practical. Sustainable transformation does not come from radical reinvention. It comes from turning multiple dials by just 1 percent, consistently, over time.
These small changes compound. New neural pathways form. Behaviour shifts. Progress becomes visible, not overnight, but inevitably. You sleep better. You eat better. You drink less. You enjoy the process. And gradually, both body and mind begin to transform.
Crucially, this works because it is designed to work with human behaviour, not against it.
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Big goals matter far less than the daily behaviours and environments that shape what actually happens.
From the gym floor to the factory floor
This logic applies just as clearly to business performance as it does to personal health - and it maps uncannily well onto industrial printing.
Industrial print has its own “January moments”.
Typical January behaviours in industrial print include:
- Investing in industrial inkjet technology while retaining an analogue mindset
- Talking about digital capability without clearly communicating value to customers
- Installing workflow software without changing roles, incentives or accountability
- Discussing AI while operators continue to override systems manually
- Piloting digital for innovation while protecting legacy volumes and behaviours
- Treating digital as a revolution rather than an evolution
- Selecting technology without sufficient application-specific research
- Avoiding multi-vendor collaboration across heads, inks, software and integration
- Leaving ink considerations too late in the design phase, then firefighting chemistry issues
The result is predictable:
Strong intent.
Weak follow-through.
Limited ROI.
A higher probability of failure.
Thinking and Systems first, technology second
The lesson is not that companies should move slower. It is that they should move smarter.
The most successful industrial print transformations start with a clear problem or opportunity, then work backwards. They involve listening to experts, seeing technology in context, understanding workflows, and learning from those who have already navigated the transition.
Only then does investment make sense.
Why FuturePrint Industrial Print exists
Over two focused days at Motorworld Munich, FuturePrint Industrial Print brings together technology providers, ink specialists, integrators, OEMs, software developers and end-users in one environment. Not to overwhelm with hype, but to enable informed, confident decision-making.
Delegates gain direct access to the people who can help them turn the right dials, at the right time.
Not all at once.
Not heroically.
But incrementally, systematically, and sustainably.
Multiple 1 percent gains in productivity, quality and efficiency compound quickly when systems are aligned. This is how digital manufacturing capability is built - not in January, but over the months and years that follow.
Technology can be revolutionary. Success, however, is evolutionary.
A better starting habit for 2026
Quite simply, attending FuturePrint Industrial Print increases your probability of success. It replaces assumption with understanding, isolation with collaboration, and short-term enthusiasm with long-term systems thinking.
As a first new Atomic Habit of 2026, use the code SALE100 to secure a free delegate place at FuturePrint Industrial Print Munich.
Turn the dials early.
Let the gains compound.