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Going shopping in a McLaren. What’s wrong with a Volvo?

Technology is a wonderful thing. This is an assumption most people (myself included) tend to make. We live in a world seemingly defined by how clever technology is. How fast is the broadband, how many steps have we taken, how efficient is the MPG, what’s the carbon footprint etc. These days we can measure everything so easily. in this article, Richard Darling asks why go to the shops in a Mclaren when a Volvo will do?

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Leaders Summit: Will Everything in the Future be Thin Film Inkjet Heads?

Will everything in the future be thin-film inkjet heads?

As innovation in inkjet technology continues un-phased by the global pandemic, and as the world begins to rise up again as COVID-19 begins a welcomed retreat from society, at the FuturePrint Leaders Summit, we ask will everything in the future be thin-film inkjet heads?

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Ricoh Europe and PeractoJet: A New Solution for Planet and Profit

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.

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Interview with John Mills: Inspiring Xaar

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.

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DoDxAct’s Pandemic Response – Driving Lab Capability

In the FuturePrint events in October 2020 and February 2021, the effects of the pandemic on print and the hopes for the future have been a big focus. When the UK lockdown was announced in February 2020 DoDxAct had only been trading for just over two years and was building a reputation for combining its expertise in inkjet process optimisation with a practical support through lab testing. Almost 50% of our business relied on travel to customer sites, either providing print head and waveform training or assisting directly with the design and build of highly-customised inkjet deposition devices.

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