Digital printing is experiencing dynamic growth in the commercial and publishing sectors. Technological advances have made it possible to use digital printing to achieve high productivity and cost-effectiveness with a quality that is virtually indistinguishable from that of conventional printing processes for customers.
Packaging should protect products, meet consumers’ growing expectations for sustainability, promote the circular economy and ensure compliance with legal requirements such as the EU Packaging Regulation. At the Sustainable Packaging Summit, Henkel will show how these challenges can be overcome with practical solutions.
From 4 to 7 November 2025, Getzner Textil will be presenting innovative developments in the fields of workwear and protective textiles at A+A 2025 (Hall 16, Stand B48) in Düsseldorf. The focus of the new products on display will be six versatile fabrics that meet different requirements in terms of functionality and safety.
On 25 and 26 February 2026, the industry will meet for the tenth time at the Colour Management Symposium (CMS) in Munich, where over 200 participants are expected to attend. Since the first symposium in 2008, Fogra’s CMS has developed into an industry event where the who’s who of colour management meet.
Due to a shortage of skilled workers, rising quality requirements, cost pressure and digital transformation, the graphics industry is at a turning point. Augmented Intelligence can provide answers in the form of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). An FMP online seminar on 5 November 2025 will show how Retrieval Augmented Generation can combine human expertise with AI.
A premiere for Gustav Daiber GmbH: for the first time, the corporate fashion manufacturer presented its collections together with Tanzkraftwerk Stuttgart in its own fashion show on 9 October 2025. Around 70 invited guests, including customers from all over Germany, experienced an event at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart that combined fashion and dance in a special way.
The Düsseldorf-based Druckstudio Group has received the German Sustainability Award for Companies in the ‘Printing Companies’ category, which honours exemplary sustainability achievements in business, local government and research. The competition examines all of a company’s processes for aspects such as environmental compatibility, energy and resource efficiency, fair logistics and social standards.
The exhibition 100 Saxon Prints 2024, which runs from 25 October 2025 to 11 January 2026 in Leipzig, continues the chain of socially focused themes of recent biennials. The future can no longer be bought with money alone. Indifference is not yet punished, and aeroplanes and cars still fly and drive at will. Living trees still stand in city centres, but the impositions to come will claim victims along the thickness of their wallets. This year’s Graphic Art Biennial draws attention to escalating processes in social interaction.
The leading associations in the printing and media industry are calling for a fundamental revision of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products. In a letter, they appeal to the German government to lobby the EU Commission for practical simplifications.
