April I UV, Textile and Solvent Printers Cutters, Laminators, Inkjet Inks & Substrates FESPA Pablo M. Lee and Maria Renée Ayau
II Contents FESPA 1 Textile Printers 8 UV Printers 11 Solvent Printers 16 Inkjet Ink 18 Media & Substrates 21 Finishing Equipment 24 Other Available FLAAR Reports 27 FLAAR Reports Video Channel 27 Finishing Equipment 27 More FLAAR Reports 28 * All items on this page are hotlinks.
FESPA 1 FESPA FESPA, formerly FESPA Digital, is held every year in Europe, and each year a different city is a host for this event. It is the largest wide-format printing expo in Europe, not taking into account drupa, which is only every four years. This year, will be the hosting city for FESPA GLobal Print Expo, from 15 to Friday 18 May at Messe, Germany. Besides having the digital part of the expo, FESPA will also feature: FESPA Awards, FESPA World Wrap Masters, Printeriors, Digital Corrugated Experience, Print Make Wear. You can visit all these areas where lots of applications will be featured, and some will also have live demonstrations.
2 Here you can see the registration and entrance area for FESPA 2017 expo in the Hamburg Messe (top and bottom left) plus a view of the FESPA Wrap Master competition (bottom right).
3 FESPA is usually divided by three carpet colors: orange for digital printing, magenta for textile printing and cyan for screen printing or Printeriors.
WHERE PRINT TAKES OFF REGISTER NOW FREE ENTRY PROMO CODE FESA856 SIGNAGE FESPA.COM DÉCOR TEXTILE DIGITAL SCREEN 15-18 MAY BERLIN, GERMANY Corporate Digital Partner Platinum Partners Gold Partners Digital Textile Partner
5 On this page you see the members of the FLAAR Reports staff who attended last year s FESPA Expo: Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth (left), Maria Renée Ayau (bottom left and right) and Pablo Martínez (above and bottom right). This year you can see the three of them returning to FESPA. Plus, FLAAR Reports will also have a booth at FESPA (3.1 C75). Hope to see you there!
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Textile Printers FESPA 8 TEXTILE Printers $324 $1,050
9 TEXTILE PRINTERS BY individual count AND PRINTER MODEL AT FESPA 2017 25 printers TRANSFER PAPER 23 printers DIRECT TO FABRIC 4 printers DIRECT-TO-FABRIC & TRANSFER PAPER 52 Total individual textile Printers individual Printers 4 23 25 Printer models 3 19 23 0 5 10 15 20 25 printer 19 MODELS TRANSFER PAPER printer 23 MODELS DIRECT TO FABRIC printer 3 MODELS DIRECT-TO-FABRIC & TRANSFER PAPER 45 Total textile Printer models
10 Textile printing is the up and rising technology in the wide-format printing industry, so naturally the amount of printers and companies that exhibit this kind of printers has increased considerably each year. Both direct-to-fabric and transfer paper technologies.
UV Printers FESPA 11 UV Printers
12 Infographic: Classification of UV-cured printers by structure Based on attending several tradeshows a year since around 2000, we have identified at least 4 types of printer sturctures, and in some cases, each of these structures have variations, as you will see. Every type of printer structure has its pros and cons. Some are very affordable, but not very adequate in the long run. Some require a serious investment, but you get peace of mind. Every manufacturer chooses the structure or design of printer they consider is the best option for the market segment they want to serve. Based on what we have seen in the market since we began evaluating printers around 2001, we have worked on the following classification by structure: Classification of UV-cured printers by structure 1 Dedicated Flatbed A dedicated flatbed printer prints only on rigid boards, unless it has a roll-to-roll mechanism at the front. Depending on their size, there are two subcategories of dedicated flatbed printers: 1.1. 1.2. Mid-sized flatbeds Desktop flatbeds 2 Dual Structure: R-t-R over top You load at the back and take-up at front. 3 Dual Structure: R-t-R across front A dual structure is a flatbed printer with a roll-to-roll mechanism at the front. 4 Combo A combo printer moves media with a conveyor belt. It can print both rigid and flexible materials. 5 Hybrid A hybrid printer moves rigid and roll-fed media with pinch rollers and grit rollers But rigid media is usually not too thick (less than 1 ) 6 Dedicated roll-to-roll A dedicated roll-to-roll printer will handle only flexible media. The widest printers reach the 5 m. long.
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14 UV-curing printer market is very popular at FESPA and the rest of the world, this technology has managed to stayed the current for many years. Most of the big companies exhibiting at FESPA, all exhibit UV-curing printers in their booth.
15 86 UV-curing printers exhibited at FESPA 2017. Feeding mechanism structure Total Dedicated flatbed printer 22 Mid-size flatbed 6 Desktop size flatbed printers 22 Dual structure flatbed printers 4 Combo transport belt printers 17 Hybrid Printer 1 Dedicated roll-to-roll printers 14 72 printers which can handle flat and/or thick materials 54 actual flatbed printers 25 20 15 10 5 0 32 printers which can handle roll-fed materials.
Solvent Printers FESPA 16 SOLVENT Printers
17 Solvent printers are a constant in any expo in the world, even though evironmental laws have become more strict now a days, this technology has had to adapt to this and become more evironmentally-friendly.
Inkjet Ink FESPA 18 Inkjet Ink $1,200
19 USA Turkey Taiwan Switzerland Spain Korea Italy Hong Kong Germany China Belgium 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 31 INK Companies Exhibited FESPA *All the data on the charts is based on the information made available to us during the exhibition. at 2017 **Companies by country, that exhibited digital ink. Belgium 02 Germany 03 USA 07 Spain 01 Italy 03 Korea 05 China 05 Switzerland 01 Turkey 01 Hong Kong 02 Taiwan 01
20 Inkjet ink manufacturers and distributors are regualr exhibitors for FESPA, you can even find some arfer market inks at the show. The most common types of inkjet inks exhibited at FESPA are UV-curable, UV-LED, textile (acid, reactive, disperse, pigment and dye sublimation), solvent eco-solvent, waterbased, and latex.
Media & Substrates FESPA 21 Media & Substrates $1,200
22 Distributors and manufacturers from all over the world exhibit at FESPA, so you can find all sorts of printable materials in different presentations to choose from.
80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 148 FESPA 23 Media & Substrate Companies Exhibited FESPA *All the data on the charts is based on the information made available to us during the exhibition. at 2017 Hungary 1 Ireland 1 Canada 1 Croatia 1 Egypt 1 Finland 1 Japan 1 Poland 1 Spain 1 England 2 Switzerland 2 Taiwan 3 Belgium 4 Netherland 5 Turkey 5 UK 5 France 6 Italy 6 USA 8 Germany 13 Korea 14 China 66 **Companies by country, that exhibited media and substrates for digital printing.
Finishing Equipment FESPA 24 FINISHING Equipment
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26 Finishing equipment is an essential part of the printing process, which is constantly neglected. Laminators, CNC routers, calendering machines, heat presses,etc. are key to obtaining quality results.
Other FLAAR Finishing Available Reports Equipment FLAAR Video Channel Reports FESPA 27 Check Out Our Latest Videos FLAAR Reports at SGI Dubai FLAAR Reports around the world 2017 Issues of inkjet printers, interview with Nicholas Hellmuth UV Printer by Structure infographic DRYTAC SpotOn SynPaper tested on HP PageWide Memjet at ISA APPPEXPO 2017 Opening Ceremony APPPEXPO 2017 Highlights APPPEXPO 2017 General interviews FLAAR Reports Around the World 2016.
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29 You can obtain FLAAR Reports straight from our websites: www.flaar-reports.org www.large-format-printers.org www.wide-format-printers.net Copyright This PDF may be cited as follows: AYAU, María Renée and Pablo M. LEE FLAAR Reports - FESPA UV, Textile, Solvent Printers, Inkjet Ink, Media & Substrates, Finishing Equipment based in 2017. FLAAR Reports Trade Shows.