What can you learn by attending Tecnargilla 2016 (ceramic tile expo)?

Posted Aug. 26, 2016

UV printer brand PR releases claim their printers can print on ceramic tiles. WOW, so you print on ceramic tiles and find later that all the ink falls off.

Printing on ceramic tiles is dubious with UV-ink unless you have the chemicals for coating and the knowledge and equipment to heat-set after printing. Since ceramic tiles are a major product for decorating architecture, it is a good investment to attend Tecnargilla ceramic tile expo every two years.

You can hire Dr Nicholas to walk-the-floor together with you, or, if you can’t get to Italy that week, you can order the FLAAR Reports which use 2014 to prepare for 2016, plus the FLAAR Reports on the 2016 expo when it is finished.

Consulting with Dr Nicholas is also available at Glasstec, one week before Tecnargilla.

Be skeptical of printing on glass and ceramic tiles with a signage printer

Posted August 8, 2016

Over and over again manufacturers of UV-cured printers claim that their printers can print on GLASS and CERAMIC TILES.

Yes, you can even print on water (as the Russian printer booth team does every year). But… will the ink adhere to the glass or ceramic tiles?

If UV-cured printers can so easily handle glass and ceramic tiles, why are there entire international glass printer trade shows and ceramic printer trade shows where between 80% and 90% of the featured printers are not using UV-cured ink?

GLASSTEC 2016

$420.00

Consulting should be reserved and covered in advance ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Once you are signed up we will send you the FLAAR Reports in preparation.

If you wish to start with just the FLAAR Reports, you can purchase them, and then if later you also wish consulting, the purchase price of the reports can be a credit towards the consulting fee.

If you wish to start with just the FLAAR Reports, you can purchase them, and then if later you also wish consulting, the purchase price of the reports can be a credit towards the consulting fee.

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FLAAR at FESPA Mexico 2016

Posted June 10, 2016

Check our feed on Twitter, Facebook and all our printers sites about us in FESPA Mexico 2016. #FLAARatFESPAMexico

Two members from FLAAR staff will attend FESPA Mexico 2016 on late August. There will be FLAAR Reports based on what we find at the exhibition.

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ISA 2016, sign and inkjet printer expo

Updated May 11, 2016.
Posted April 7, 2016

Four from FLAAR Reports attended ISA 2016 in Orlando. Lots of people visited our booth there.

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There will also be comparable FLAAR Reports on printheads of textile printers, textile printer TRENDs, etc. We have comparable reports for textile and UV-cured printers at APPPEXPO 2016 in Shanghai and FESPA 2016 in Amsterdam.

Here is the FLAAR team who work on printer and signage trends around the world.

ISA 2017 will be at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The trade show is April 20, 21, and 22; April 19th has educational and networking events.

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APPPEXPO 2016 opens in Shanghai

Posted Feb. 24, 2016

Five of us from FLAAR will attend APPPEXPO in Shanghai. We would not send this many people if this expo were not worth it.

For 2016, we are not attending any more expos in Guangzhou. Everything there has changed, and you can see so much more at the Shanghai expos. We enjoyed Guangzhou expos for four or five years, but everything changed last year and for 2016 it is now a local southern China expo.

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For full international status, the key printer, media, substrates, laminator, ink, and cutter expo is APPPEXPO 2016, March 9-12.

Why no water-based flatbed printers?

Posted January 21, 2016; updated Jan. 27th.

SGI 2016, Sign & Graphic Imaging Middle East, Dubai

Posted Dec. 20, 2015

FLAAR Reports team will attend Sign Istanbul

Posted August 4, 2015

Three of us from FLAAR Reports will visit SIGGRAPH 2015 3D computer graphics and animation expo in Los Angeles next week. Once this final summer expo is over, we will review the autumn schedule of printer and signage trade shows. Sign Istanbul will be our focus for September.

We have attended two different printer and signage expos in Turkey over the past 10 years. By far the largest and most consistent is Sign Istanbul. We enjoyed the other venues but unless hosted elsewhere we will continue our focus on Sign Istanbul.

Turkey is a friendly country with a well established network of printer shops, distributors, plus manufacturers (especially of inks). We know the key people of the major distributors such as PIMMS, Fleksmedia, and the many other key companies where Europe and Asia meet.

We hope to see you at Sign Istanbul 2015, 10-13 September, visible on www.IFO.com.tr or www.SignIstanbul.com.

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FESPA AFRICA 2015

Updated August 17, 2015
Posted June 25, 2015

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This is the most important signage and printer trade show for southern Africa and attracts people from many countries. Whereas most countries have competing expos, for this part of the world FESPA AFRICA has no competition (especially since this expo is co-located with three other equipment focused trade shows).

Thus I especially like this annual event in Johannesburg because you can see a lot more in addition to the main brands of wide-format inkjet.

We were present at FESPA AFRICA July 22nd through 24th and now we have ready a free report that you can acquire by subscribing tou our newsletter.