Collective design – collective thinking

Digital print offers special possibilities and advantages for individual design solutions on diverse surfaces, in small and large-scale projects, in different settings. All those possibilities can only be exploited – and new technical ideas could be explored –  if the communication between technicians and designers enhances. I will explain my thought structures as a textile designer to open a dialogue about communication between different professions. If we want to improve our work together we need to understand our different backgrounds of thinking. If more people become open for visionary and absurd-appearing ideas by designers, the technique could be improved together with machine builders, technicians, chemists and engineers. If we understand each other we have the chance to inspire each other and combine our skills and not leave it in separated chambers. What about material experiments to find new printable substances? Can mushrooms be printed digitally? Should we try it? Why not!

The impact of single pass high-speed inkjet on wallpaper printing

The European wallpaper market has been contracting slowly since 2006. IIJ see a real opportunity for the adoption of inkjet to reverse this trend. Recent developments in single-pass digital printing have created the possibility for mass-production of wallpaper to go digital without a significant impact on cost or productivity, thus opening the possibility for designs to move beyond simple repeating patterns. IIJ believes this freedom will revolutionise interior design and revitalise interior space. This presentation covers an overview of the current market, and the challenges, requirements and future of digital printing for wallpaper applications.

Mobile UV wall printing “Made in Germany”. Print anything. Anywhere.

The WallPen is a mobile UV printing system protected with 15 patents. Direct wall printing offers completely new possibilities of wall design inside and outside. With other techniques like photo wallpaper or film gluing, replicable images or texts can only be applied in a complex and often unclean and/or full-surface manner. With the WallPen, hospital corridors, restaurants or offices can be designed with any motif, spatial effects or pin sharp lettering in the shortest time, homogeneous and clean.

Managing color deviations in the decorating industry - typical pitfalls of recreating specific colors and the solution to get it right the first time

Digital printing expert Jan Seguda explains the typical pitfalls of recreating specific colours and explains the long-awaited solution to getting it right the first time. A fast growing trend within the decorative industries is the addition of special effects like reflectance, structure to digitally coloured surfaces. Capturing these properties from natural surfaces and to convert a given structure, colour or reflectance characteristic into a new design is a major challenge that ColorGATE has been addressing with a brand-new solution approach targeting surface designers. In addition, the speaker will outline the patented solution approach to ensure industrial production requirement for repeat order consistency at the example of digital ceramic tile production, where line conditions vary greatly which influences the final surface appearance.

Switch from analogue to digital: Single or multi-pass printing?

The field of interior decoration has seen a number of digital printing activities, smaller and bigger ones. The past years have shown different approaches for different applications. The success stories of the massive interior textile printing and large number of small scale digital printers for wallpaper. Smaller projects for wood laminates and larger projects for industrial mass production with single pass technology. The presentation is going to show a view on the advantages and disadvantages of the respective technologies and an outlook on what is going to come from an end-user and now developer of industrial inkjet solutions.

The right choice of ink: A journey through different applications

Inkjet is like a vegetable soup – it comes with so many different flavours. To find the right taste or ink technology for your application is one of the most challenging things and is key for success. Other things like printhead technology, material handling, pre- and post-processing are also important, but the printing quality on a substrate, the durability of the print and the framework of regulations for the purpose is settled by the right choice of ink. The interior decoration market has many different variations, different substrates and different regulation. There is no “one-for-all ink” but some ink technologies can print on a couple of different materials and for other applications it is better to pick the proper ink.

Large Format Digital Printing 3.0: Find your niche, adopt new skills

Digital prints and especially large format digital prints are something very common in our lives these days. At the end of the 90s, the industry grew by itself. Specialists on this market were turning this demand in good results for their businesses without the necessity of looking out for
customers. But as with nearly every market development, the barriers of entering the markets get smaller and the struggle for survival begins. New markets in large format digital printing evolve. New skill sets are needed to enter these markets. The challenge for large format printing entrepreneurs today is to find the right niche and to adopt the right skills to become a specialist AGAIN!

Creating the right ambience: Room acoustics and aesthetics

In any room we want to create an ambiance through interior design, light, air, colour… Room acoustics takes an important part in creating the right ambiance but is often forgotten or handled badly. Comfort includes good room acoustics! A good room acoustics nowadays can be achieved in adding materials which fit in the interior design. Absorbers can be neutral and blended in without noticing or can be part of the design itself. They even can be combined with real art work. What is room acoustics? It is the behaviour of sound in a particular room. Depending on the use of the room, you may change the acoustics accordingly. A theater, a classroom, a meeting room, a restaurant or an open space office; every room needs a particular set of acoustic figures to meet its purpose well. These figures can be pre-calculated at drawings and discussed with a designer and/or can be measured at site. A few handiness can be given by thinking of an ABCD: Absorb - Block - Cover - Diffuse.

Reinventing interiors: A digital transformation

In an exciting marketplace we must not underestimate the creative and commercial impact that the evolution of digital print technology will force on the interiors industry. The interiors industry worldwide crosses so many market sectors, and each has its own unique technical specifications to achieve. For a creative in a specialist marketplace understanding how best to utilise digital print is an essential learning curve. Any interior – be it residential or contract – is a complex design, incorporating many co-ordinated components. Each element has a key place in the finished scheme and must be delivered fit for purpose, fulfilling the technical, functional and visual needs of the designer’s scheme. And so, how do we, as creatives, address the digital opportunities that we have at our fingertips? The creative freedom offered by digital print is infinite. For the interior designer now gifted with an exciting new set of tools the product possibilities are endless; the only limit is the designer’s talent and access to print technology. Using her own award winning collections, Debbie will give an exclusive insight into a designer’s digital workflow.

Sublifusion: New way of digital textile printing

Currently, the most popular way to print on textile with a digital printer is sublimation. Fast and affordable sublimation paper printers, low production costs and an easy waterless production on any kind of polyester fabric are the additional values. With the new technology of sublifusion, you can use sublimation technology to print on all kind of textiles. Even on coloured fabrics. Washing and rubbing of the printed textiles is on a high quality level. Brilliant colours and Ökotex 100 are additional features of sublimation. You are welcome to discover sublifusion at the PID 2018.

Delivering digital manufacturing for interior decoration: How digital technologies can create breakthrough decorative or functional finishes

Digital manufacturing is delivering a paradigm shift in manufacturers’ capabilities meet consumer needs with new products that deliver breakthrough benefits and that are customised for markets and even individual consumers. Manufacturers who can connect the digital with the physical world are able to both unlock competitive advantage based on product differentiation and realise significant improvements in productivity and supply chain agility. The key benefits of digital manufacturing are: creation of unique product structures, customisation and personalisation delivered at zero cost, software-defined instant changeovers with higher productivity processes, fully connected end-to-end digital supply chain. This presentation will review the latest digital manufacturing technologies available to the interior decoration industry.

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