FAIRS Themen

This year’s Online Print Symposium (OPS) on 14 and 15 March 2024 at the Science Congress Center Munich will focus on the future. The OPS will once again offer a globally unique stage for current expert knowledge, future topics and pioneering start-ups. As the meeting place for the global online print scene, the OPS is also “the place to be”. With participants from the DACH region, including the UK, Benelux, France, Poland, Scandinavia, the USA and Japan, the internationalisation of the event is progressing steadily.

The Bad Emstal-based company Multi-Plot will once again be exhibiting at the “R+T” trade fair in Stuttgart this year. The world’s leading trade fair for roller shutters, doors and sun protection systems will open its doors from 19 to 23 February. Multi-Plot, the specialist for digital textile printing systems, will be providing information on the many different options for printing outdoor and indoor textiles, such as privacy and sun protection, roller blinds, curtains, screens and awnings.

Brother will showcase an innovative product portfolio at FESPA 2024 and announces its participation as one of the pioneers in Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing. Global Print Expo will be the first opportunity to showcase Brother’s industry-leading innovations and new capabilities on one of the largest exhibition floors.

The Colour Management Symposium will take place for the 9th time in Munich on 21 and 22 February and all 21 speakers have been confirmed. Practitioners and users from print shops and brand owners will share their knowledge. The programme promises varied and in-depth insights into the world of colour management. With 200 people from almost 20 countries, the event is the perfect place to network with contacts from the industry.

The use of screen and digital printing machines for optoelectronic applications is still booming despite difficult economic developments. Products such as mobile phones, screens and membrane keyboards have become an integral part of everyday life and are only functional thanks to printed electronics.

This is how sustainable mobility succeeds: Under the focus topic of mobility, LOPEC, a leading global trade fair and congress for flexible, organic and printed electronics, will be showcasing numerous applications of printed electronics for the transport sector in Munich from 5 to 7 March 2024.

Organised for the second time, the Textile Printing & Sustainability Conference (TPS) returns to Düsseldorf on 15 and 16 October 2024. The organisers from the European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association (ESMA) are inviting presentations on all the critical factors shaping textile production and decoration today and in the near future. Suppliers, researchers and experts in printing technology – especially inkjet and screen printing – can submit their abstracts until 31 March 2024.

Three colours, three stories. On 2 February, the Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig opens the exhibition RGB – Red Green Blue. Colour Stories, a show developed by the Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique in Lyon on the media history of the three colours of light.

The French trade fair C!print, which will take place in Lyon from 6 to 8 February 2024, brings together over 250 manufacturers, distributors and service providers from the fields of digital printing solutions, marking, textile printing, signage, cutting solutions, finishing solutions and print media.