Digital Packaging Printing

Applications, Design, Inks & Integration

Thursday 7 - Friday 8 July, 2022

Novotel Gent Centrum Hotel, Ghent, Belgium

COURSE FOCUS

There is a strong market pull in the packaging industry for the advantages given by digital printing, such as rapid turnaround of new designs, regional variations and personalisation. Take up of digital technology, especially from inkjet, has been limited by technical factors which are now beginning to be overcome, meaning that there has never been a better time to consider this technology for a range of packaging applications.

The course gives an overview of the packaging industry which consists of a number of different applications with very different technical requirements, market dynamics and potential for digital printing. The range of potential inkjet ink types will be reviewed, along with their use in inkjet printheads and systems, and the process requirements in each case. Integration of digital inkjet technology within a production environment will also be considered, as well as the challenges of software and system design to make the inkjet process production compatible.

COURSE OUTLINE

Course LeaderS

Mike Rottenborn, CEO
Hybrid Software Group, UK

Mike Rottenborn took up the position of Chief Executive Officer in January 2020. He was formerly the President and CEO of HYBRID Software Inc., which he founded in 2007. He has spent 30 years working in the graphic arts industry and began his career as an electrical engineer with DuPont Printing & Publishing. After DuPont, Mr Rottenborn joined PCC Artwork Systems to focus on prepress workflow software for packaging and commercial printing customers. Mr Rottenborn received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Villanova University.

Joel Winer, Product Support Manager - iC3D
Hybrid Software Group, UK

Joel has spent 6 years with iC3D in a technical management role. He is a product support specialist, providing consulting to Hybrid’s prospects and customers which are related to the end-to-end 3D visualisation business processes. With many years of industry knowledge gained in global blue-chip retailers and pharmaceutical companies, Joel is able to provide best practice advice. Joel has over 25 years of software, packaging, artwork management, design, art-working and print industry knowledge, with Diplomas in Graphic Design and Management Studies.

Thomas Elton, Cloudflow Product Manager
Hybrid Software Group, UK

Tom coordinates the strategy, planning, and delivery of software solutions for the label and packaging print industry, by listening and reacting to the needs of the market. With 13 years of experience in the print industry through various roles from operator, automation specialist, solution engineer, and now product manager, he demonstrates a wide range of experience and knowledge of technology along with practice.

Phil Jackman, Global Product Manager - Digital
Sun Chemical, UK

Phil has been in the printing industry with Sun Chemical for over 20 years and has a wealth of experience across all print disciplines, both analogue and digital. Previous roles included working in high security printing, brand protection and packaging applications. Phil spent several years living in Asia as Business Development Manager implementing anti-counterfeit and tracking solutions for brand owners and governments in the region.
In 2011 he repatriated to the UK to work within the growing digital business, where he is currently the Global Product Manager – Digital, at Sun Chemical where he is influential in the product development and strategy of the digital business.
Phil holds a BSc (Hons) in Industrial Management from Nottingham Trent University

Jason Hook, Senior Project Manager
Global Graphics Software, UK

Jason Hook is a Senior Project Manager in theTechnical Services team. Having more than 20 years’ experience of working in Information Technology. He has worked with a variety of programming languages (Java, C# and older languages) and Microsoft and IBM technologies.

Recently he has been working with colleagues and customers enabling them to use technologies like OPC UA, SCADA, AWS and Azure in their own projects. Throughout his career Jason has been extending and integrating systems from a variety of vendors and creating systems using proprietary and bespoke software to solve a variety of collaboration and business-process automation challenges. Jason holds an BEd (Hons) in Primary Education from the University of Greenwich.

Tom Mooney, Product Manager
Global Graphics Software, UK

Tom Mooney is Product Manager for Colour Technologies at Global Graphics Software. With a BSc in Printing and an MSc in Digital Imaging (University of Westminster) he has worked in software development, sales and business development for the last 30 years developing software for Inkjet Printing.