Industry heavyweights like Ron Gilboa of InfoTrends, Andreas Skantze of Big Image Systems and Scott Donovan of BleuPrint Creative will speak at the upcoming Fespa Digital Textile Conference in Milan on 2 October.
The conference programme will focus on four areas of discussion; an overview of digital textile printing, interior and soft signage, apparel printing and fashion, as well as an exploration of the technologies and techniques used to deliver these applications.
Gilboa will discuss insights into the growth and creative development of the digital textile market, based on data collected from suppliers of digital textile inks and equipment. He will also examine the market drivers for digital textile printing.
Skantze, president of Swedish-based Big Image Systems, will examine his most challenging and creative case studies over his 25 years’ experience in the industry to demonstrate the potential of fabric printing.
Donovan, MD at US company BleuPrint Creative, will examine how fabric printing can help grow a business by looking at market analysis and exploring mass-production, to individually customised products.
Other speakers include Professor Dr Marc Van Parys, head of research laboratory TO2C, who will highlight new developments in digital textile printing including recent innovations for new UV inks and lacquers tailor made for different textile applications. Egidio Fasana, production manager, Mascioni will discuss a centre of excellence for digital textile printing, multi-pass vs single pass.
Looking at interior decoration and soft signage, Italian colour correction expert Marco Olivotto will discuss this in relation to digital textile printing, including traditional correction techniques, gamut problems and how printers can get the most from digitally printed designs and patterns.
Talking digital printing in fashion, Mark Abramson, CEO of ThinFolio, a Kickstarter funded project, will discuss the success and challenges he has faced, from the consumer, to creating print ready files and managing the production and shipment of large volume, digitally printed products.
This session will also include speeches from previously announced speakers Melanie Bowles, senior lecturer in textile design at the Chelsea College of Art, and Michael Schmidt, celebrity fashion designer who incorporates 3D printing in his designs.
Digital Textile Conference cost 150 Euro for member of Fespa’s associations, and 180 Euro for non-members.