Earlier this year Ricoh Europe and Farbenpunkt announced a partnership between the two companies which combines Ricoh’s leading inkjet head technology with Farbenpunkts PeractoJet ink technology. We talk to Graham Kennedy who is the Director of industrial Print at Ricoh Europe about how this came about and what this could mean for the textile printing sector in terms of production and sustainability.

Global Graphics is a leading developer of integrated software and hardware solutions for graphics and industrial inkjet printing. Customers include press manufacturers such as HP, Canon, Durst, Roland, Hymmen, and hundreds of packaging printers, trade shops, and converters worldwide. In this article, we talk to CEO Mike Rottenborn ahead of the FuturePrint Leaders Summit and his session on M&A.

At the FuturePrint Virtual Summit in October, Xaar rebranded and launched ImagineX a new printhead platform designed to bring inkjet into a new age and allied to a rebranding has reignited the business back to where many believe it should be, innovating from the front and defining the future. We spoke directly with the new CEO, John Mills, about how and what the future means for Xaar.

The FuturePrint Virtual Conference, taking place 25th – 26th February, will be showcasing a range of solutions, insight and education from established print giants to cutting-edge newcomers, both of which are blazing the trail for the future of the industry. We caught up with Simon Daplyn, Manager, Product Marketing, Sun Chemical and Phil Jackman, Global Product Manager, Digital, Sun Chemical, to find out why they are returning to a FuturePrint event and what’s in store for their session.

Katelyn Bohr is the Director of Marketing for ColordyneTechnologies, who are one of the innovative new FuturePrintpartners for 2021. In this interview, we talk to Katelyn about her thoughts on print, inkjet, marketing and her view of the future. As a business, Colordyne designs, engineers and manufactures cutting-edge digital inkjet print engines for strategic integration partners across the full spectrum of inkjet printing markets.

In this interview Inkjet innovator, Roland Biemans asserts that the industry is obsessed with selling the dream of total digital revolution and this could be holding back progress...

Recently, I talked to Paddy O’Hara of IIJ about his view of inkjet and how he sees it developing. IIJ is a business that has grown into a leader in the world of industrial inkjet development and in this interview Paddy gives his view and some examples of how IIJ are developing solutions to niche problems by using inkjet as an enabling technology.

I’m a Management major from Northeastern University but I’ve been studying and consulting in the large format digital printing business for over 20 years. For much of that time I was with InfoTrends now I have been with IDC for almost five years. In all that time I have conducted studies in just about every segment of the large format printing market I can think of and many of those multiple times.

With over 20 years in the digital printing industry, Simon Edwards, Product Manager at Global Inkjet Systems (GIS), has an experienced view of digital printing development. In this interview, he gives his insight and opinion as to where Inkjet is on the curve of adoption, what has changed over the last year since he joined GIS and some of the previously seen technical challenges that are being solved now.