FuturePrint Podcast
FuturePrint is dedicated to and passionate about the power of print technology to enable new opportunities and create new value. This pod features deep-dive discussions with the people behind the tech as well as market analysis, trends, marketing and storytelling!
Episodes
376 episodes
#361 - The Next Growth Curve: Ken Stack from EPS on DTOS and Industrial Inkjet’s Expanding Opportunity
Can digital direct to object printing compete with analogue on speed and cost, even when producing hundreds of thousands of identical objects? Ken Stack, Executive Chairman of
#360 - Printing You Can Read With Your Fingers, With Peter Ueberfuhr, Co-Founder, C-marx
Inkjet gets called “printing” so often that we forget what it really can be: a manufacturing tool that adds function, not just colour. We are joined by Peter Ueberfuhr from C-marx to unpack how an inkjet integrator approaches the real-world pro...
#359 - Print Beyond Hardware: AI, Automation and Acquisition, with Anthony Sci, President and CEO , Keypoint Intelligence
Print is no longer just a hardware story. It’s a data story, a software story, and increasingly an automation story too and that shift is forcing every manufacturer, reseller, and print service provider to rethink how they compete.We ar...
#358 - The Future of Packaging and the Hybrid Stack, With Allan Bendall, Project and Account Manager, Sun Chemical
Packaging is changing in a way that can feel subtle on the surface, but the forces underneath are massive. We’re joined by Allan Bendall from Sun Chemical to talk about what’s really driving the shift: digital-native consumers who expect more t...
#357 - Single-Pass Inkjet Built For Industry, With Thomas Amrein, CEO, Matti Group
Single-pass inkjet can sound like a technical detail until you hear what it unlocks: speed, repeatability, and a realistic route to industrial automation. We sit down with Thomas Amrein, CEO of Matti Technology, to talk about how a 20-person, e...
#356 - How UV rotary and Direct to Shape Changes the Game, With Vaughn Pollman, President, Innovative Digital Systems
Personalised products used to mean slow setups, expensive screens, and a hard choice between speed and flexibility. Now we’re watching digital UV LED printing turn product decoration into something far more agile, especially for brands that wan...
#355 - Robot Inkjet Printing For Any Shape, With Clayton Sampson, CEO, Cyan Tec
A printer that behaves like a production cell, not a flatbed. Frazer Chesterman sits down with Clayton Sampson, CEO of Cyan Tec, to unpack Robojet: a standard six axis robotic inkjet printer built for direct to shape printing on real industrial...
#354 - Seiko’s 25-Year Leap Into Inkjet, With Ali Eranpurwala, Head of Sales, Seiko
Seiko is known for precision, but the surprise is where that precision ends up: inside industrial inkjet printheads that can survive dust, heat and heavy-particle inks. We sit down with returning guest Ali Eranpurwala to map Seiko’s 25-year jou...
#353 - Printing Against the Grain: How Vislo and HP Are Bringing Digital Production to Metal Packaging
What happens when an innovator refuses to accept that digital printing with HP Indigo technology on metal packaging is impossible?In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with
Episode #352: Second Nature - Jorge Ania, Studio DC
Elena Knight spoke to Jorge Ania of Studio DC, a surface designer who has spent his career teaching industrial printers to imitate stone, marble and wood. He told us why he disliked digital printing at first, how it went on to transform ceramic...
#351 - How Near Infrared Photons Transform Industrial Drying, With Kai Bär, Managing Director, adphos
Hot air drying has powered print and coating lines for decades, but it comes with a familiar trade-off: you heat the whole substrate, spend energy you do not really need to spend, and still fight limitations on speed and material choice. We sit...
#350 When Direct-to-Shape Meets AI, Automation & Personalization with Florian Fässler, Polytype
Printing on curved packaging sounds simple until you try doing it at industrial speed without missing nozzles, wasting materials, or slowing production to a crawl. We sit down with
#349 - Ink at the Centre: James MacDonald on Why Partnerships Will Define the Future of Industrial Inkjet
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with James MacDonald, Vice President of Nazdar’s OEM Ink...
FuturePrint PodFEST: Episode 1 - IPIA: Building Brands Beyond Short-Term Marketing
Two seconds of scrolling versus 108 seconds of real attention is not a small difference, it’s a completely different kind of marketing. Recording live from FuturePrint PodFest in London’s West End, we dig into why physical media still cuts thro...
#348 - From Argo-108 to the Argo-Verse, With Kyle Kropman & Frank De Jonge, Buskro
"We do not impose; we propose."Buskro built a strong European presence in direct mail and transactional printing, then went quiet as that market contracted. It never stopped engineering. Now, fifty years into the business, the Canadian f...
#347 - Communicating Gallus’s Reinvention Story: Jana Bachstein on Heritage, Change and Connection
What role can marketing play in the transformation of a century-old industrial company?In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Jana Bachstein, Head of...
#346 - Beyond the Lamp: Rob Karsten on Building the Integrated Manufacturing Systems of the Future
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Rob Karsten of Excelitas Techn...
#345 - Get Your Shit Together Or Get Out
Two old friends, forty years of history, and one incredibly honest book about workplace culture. In this episode, Elena Knight from FuturePrint sits down with Simon Edwards, Technical Director at Global Inkjet Systems, and Anthony Lee, a patent...
#344 - The New Canvas of Manufacturing: How Digital Printing is Redefining Decor with Nino Speranza from Interprint
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Nino Speranza from Interprint about how digital printing is transfo...
#343 - EUDR For Print: What Changes Now, with Anna Roberts, Head of Market Development
A regulation that can fine you for a single weak link in your supply chain forces a different kind of thinking. We sit down with Anna Roberts, Head of Market Development at IOV42, to unpack the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and why it is c...
#342 - What does the World Cup have to do with Direct to Shape Print, with Grant Copson, Cyan Tec
A football looks simple until you try to print on it. The curves, seams, and tricky surface finish make traditional flatbed approaches awkward at best. So we sat down with Grant Copson from Cyan Tec to unpack how RoboJet, a modular robotic inkj...
#341- How Sustainable (Wide-Format) Print Became Key to the Experience at La Gacilly Photo Festival
Perhaps surprisingly, the best wide format print projects rarely begin with print.Rather, they begin with an idea, a vision, a story, and a shared ambition to create something that moves people.In this episode of the FuturePrint P...
#340 - Making Printing One Less Thing to Worry About: The Story Behind the launch of the Linx 9000 Series
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, we are joined by Edd West, Business Unit Manager for Continuous Inkjet (CIJ),
#339 - Brand Cult, Marketing & the Power of the Physical Newspaper, with Kierian Cameron, Brand Cult
Digital marketing moves fast, gets measured in clicks, and disappears in a day. Print does the opposite, and that tension sits at the heart of our conversation with Kierian Cameron, t...
#338 - How Buskro Turns Mailing Know How Into Direct To Box Inkjet Printing, With Christophe Merlier & Charles Tonna, Buskro
A corrugated box looks simple until you try to print something different on every single one, at speed, with the same reliability you expect from industrial production. We’re joined by Charles Tonna, CEO at Buskro, and Christophe Merlier, VP of...