Frazer Chesterman sat down with FuturePrint partners at IPI for a series of FuturePrint TV interviews - we take a look at some of the key themes from those discussions.

As FESPA 2022 in Berlin prepares to get underway, we take a look at some of the offerings from FuturePrint partners at the event.

Following the news of an Agfa acquisition of Inca Digital, FuturePrint shares insights from interviews with senior figures from both businesses.

In March, FuturePrint’s Frazer Chesterman met up with Vincent Wille, President of Digital Printing Chemicals at Agfa.

In this month’s feature, FuturePrint partners share insights on digital print opportunities for the decor market.

Mike Horsten, Global Business Manager, InterioJet at Agfa asks: can surfaces become digital prints?

At InPrint 2022 (Munich, March 15-17), industrial inkjet expert Agfa will show how manufacturers from diverse industry segments can achieve unequaled flexibility, cost-efficiency and speed of delivery through the integration of inkjet printing in their production processes.

With Agfa’s Alussa inkjet printing solution, tanneries and brands get access to a next-gen decoration solution that enables them to produce genuine leather with stunning designs as well as superior performance.

Rita Torfs and Marc Graindourze, Agfa, will be at the FuturePrint and Pack Summit discussing Agfa’s aqueous inkjet solution for printing on to corrugated boards.

While UV-curable inks boast excellent adhesion properties, a primer still comes in useful when printing on particular substrates. Some substrates are notoriously difficult to make ink adhere too. Take for example metal, glass, ceramics or polypropylene, which can be used for numerous applications, including decorative printing, direct-to-shape printing, or marking & coding. To ensure superior bonding of UV-curable inkjet inks to challenging media, dedicated digital primers can save the day.

How do you start designing your inkjet printing solution when you are an industry where the print becomes part of the product? Let us assume you are convinced that inkjet printing will deliver you key advantages for your lead time, your freedom of design, low waste, variable run lengths, etc. In short, you will profit from all the digital printing advantages. Great. We believe you will.

Pascal Juéry, CEO of Agfa, a leading global supplier of inkjet printing solutions, was a speaker at FuturePrint’s recent Leaders Summit, providing an in-depth view into the company’s vision for inkjet. We asked him to look back and summarise.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. Pascal Juery has been Chief Executive Officer of the Agfa-Gevaert Group since February 1, 2020. He describes his aim as ‘to continue the transformation of Agfa in the digital world’. We caught up with him ahead of his Leaders Summit interview.

At the end of 2020, FuturePrint connected with partners and colleagues to form a picture of how the pandemic had affected print, as well as looking ahead to 2021 and the challenges and opportunities it might hold for the industry. These conversations and insights were the foundation for the first FuturePrint Vision Report. In this article, Marc Graindourze, Business Manager Industrial Inks, Agfa, elaborates on his forecasts for 2021.