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
367 episodes
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...
#337 - Beyond the Grey Box: Why Storytelling, Trust and Human Connection Matter More Than Ever in Print
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Mark Stephenson about the launch of his new venture, The Spark Organisation
#336 - From Chemistry to Connection - The Role of Marketing, Communications, and Storytelling in (Industrial) Print with Natalie Thrall, Nazdar
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Natalie Thrall, Marketing Manager at Nazdar, about the ...
#335 - B2B to B2H: Why Human-Centric Storytelling Is Reshaping Industrial Print with Matteo Conte, Polytype
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson is joined by Matteo Conte, Marketing Manager at Polytype, to explore ...
#334 - GIS and the Hard Engineering of Inkjet Progress with Steve Williamson, Global Inkjet Systems
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Frazer Chesterman speaks with Steve Williamson, CEO of Global Inkjet Systems (GIS), about leadership, technology, market change and the future direction of industrial inkjet.Steve reflects on h...
#333 - Extending Performance: Why Printhead Recovery is Becoming Critical in Industrial Inkjet, With Aliasgar Eranpurwala, Seiko and Edgar Llop, People & Technology
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Frazer Chesterman speaks with Edgar Llop and Aliasgar Eranpurwala about p...
#332 - Metal decoration finds its digital moment with Dr Simon Daplyn and Phil Jackman from Sun Chemical
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Dr Simon Daplyn and Phil Jackman of
#331 - Why Digital Printing is Growing in an Uncertain World, with Christophe Imbert, Lubrizol
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, we speak with Christophe Imbert from Lubrizol about how digital printing is evolving in response to changing market conditions, and the growing role of chemistry in enabling that shift.Drawing ...
#330 - From Mass Production to Mass Customisation: How Digital Is Rewriting the Beverage Can Market with Clay Oliff, Polytype America
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Clay Oliff, President and CEO of Polytype America Corporation, to explo...
#329 - Trends in Inkjet Packaging with Marc Graindourze, Agfa
In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, we speak with Marc Graindourze from Agfa about the evolving role of inkjet in packaging printing, and how the technology is beginning to find its place in one of the most demanding areas of the print ...