Podcast #Printerverse: Talking Textiles with Ester Sala Alborna, HP
Ester Sala Albornà, Global Business Director of Textile Printing at HP, discusses the strategy behind the development of the
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3D Printers turn Textiles into Smart Wearables
Wearable electronics are more and more part of our daily life: for the first time Chinese researchers have been able to produce electronic clothes with little effort.
Continue ReadingHow Fashion Brands Are Pushing Sustainable Biotextiles
Today’s fast fashion consumption has severe environmental impacts. But with the development of eco-friendly biofabrics young labels as well as established fashion brands are revolutionizing the textile industry.
Continue ReadingSmart packaging and textiles are future uses for 3D printed cellulose
As 3D printing is used in an increasing number of settings and applications, the search for new materials has taken off. Exciting new research comes out of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden where researchers have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made of cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter.
Continue ReadingPrinted textiles on demand
Google asked for T-shirts with 11 different printed characters featured in its Androidify campaign. Time to delivery: 2 hours. Garment Printing, an industry leader in personalized and customized clothing, took on the challenge. Their use of digital textile printers reflects a growing trend within the industry.
Continue Reading#PrintingProfessions – Industrial Management Assistant
A new episode of our blog series #PrintingProfessions is online. This time we deal with the industrial management assistant and explain what the daily work routine can look like and what future opportunities the job offers.
Continue ReadingCreating Energy from Printed Fabrics
Researchers from Fraunhofer Institute in Dresden, Germany have come up with a technology that enables printing solar cells on fabrics. This way, truck tarpaulins could be able to generate power in a few years.
Continue ReadingSmithers Pira Report and What it Reveals About the Future of Digital Printing
The worldwide authority on printing, paper and print industry supply chains, Smithers Pira, published a report containing forecasts for the global digital printing market until 2024.
Continue ReadingFrom Printing Roses to Flat-Pack Furniture
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Morphing Matter Lab decided to use warpage to their advantage and create 4D-printed objects with it. In the future, this technology might enable flat-pack furniture manufacturers to easily ship large pieces of furniture and revolutionise the industry.
Continue ReadingVDMA’s Future Workshop and the Printing and Paper Industry in the Years 2030 to 2040
With the aim to develop a mission statement for the years 2030 to 2040 our partner association VDMA, its member companies, the trend research company TRENDONE and the drupa team participated in a future workshop and discussed the influences of social and technological trends on the printing and paper industry.
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