Tim Phillips, IMI Europe, discusses the challenges of maintaining an events business during the pandemic.
The only way is not always up
It can be argued that the most important part of strategic planning for your business is understanding the future. There are many ways of watching where markets are going, and an important one is conferences, such as the recent IMI Europe Digital Printing Conference in Berlin. While other events focus on components and technology, in Berlin future prospects, opportunities and challenges were, as always, the focus.
Factors enabling industrial digital textile printing
Colour management in a digital era
Tim Phillips of IMI Europe and Catenary Solutions discusses colour management in the digital textile value chain, its set-up, challenges and application. You can find out more about colour management at the Inkjet Colour Management course being held at IMI Europe’s Inkjet Summer School, Cambridge, UK, 10-14 June 2019.
Drying water based inks – the challenges
James Burbidge of adphos describes the drivers for water-based inks, and the challenges faced in drying them. You can hear more from Adphos at the Inkjet Drying & Curing course, part of the IMI Europe Inkjet Summer School.
The digital revolution in textile printing – requirements and trends for inkjet inks and textile chemistry
Recently, the pigment ink market for textile inkjet printing is emerging rapidly. Pigment inks have a lot of benefits such as a high colour strength and high light resistance. They are considered as “universal inks” because they can be applied directly on a large range of textile substrates without sophisticated or environmentally unfriendly pre- or post-treatments. Dr Enrico Sowade of Zschimmer and Schwarz discusses the impact of pre-treatment on ink performance.
Improvement of printing quality through satellite formation control
Drop-on-demand piezoelectric inkjet printing represents nowadays one of the most diffused technologies thanks to its high performance and reliability. To achieve high quality printing many different requirements have to be met in terms of drop properties, leading to a very precise dot positioning and thus to a high quality final image.
Development of nanoparticle inks with active matrix materials
Reducing the thermal treatment conditions required for depositing metal oxide thin films onto flexible plastic substrates is a challenge. In this blog the use of preformed crystalline nanoparticles in active matrix will be discussed and with promising results showing this as a potential way forward.