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Barbieri is an internationally operating manufacturer and supplier of intelligent colour measurement systems which ensure the highest image quality for professional digital printing. Barbieri is the colour measurement market leader for large format, flatbed and industrial printing. The international Barbieri technical laboratory continuously discovers new features, characteristics, and applications that improve products and help customers to improve their performance. www.barbierielectronic.com

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. AVA software works together with HP Latex Printing Technologies and HP Stitch S Printer series to provide comprehensive solutions for digitally printed wallcoverings and textiles. Click here to see Hewlett Packard’s revolutionary new range of Large Format Printers.

i-dott is a charity Charity set up in 2013 to support, nurture and inspire surface pattern design students internationally. i-dott exists to bridge that gap between academia and industry, it creates and delivers competitions and bursaries aimed at establishing firm links between academia and the creative industries. Through a board of Trustees, main sponsors, and membership i-dott have a global reach for colleges and Universities into textile, wallcovering and associated industries. www.i-dott.org

Mimaki is a manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting machines for the sign & graphics, textile & apparel and industrial markets. It also provides a comprehensive range of supporting products; hardware, software, and the associated consumable items, such as inks and cutting blades. https://mimaki.com

iSub Limited UK Large Format Digital Textile Printing Specialists. Founded in 2001, i-Sub is headed by key industry personnel with decades of experience in the sublimation print and textile industries. i-Sub is fully authorised to supply and support solutions from leading manufacturers including Epson, Dgen, Coldenhove, Mimaki, Sensient, Homer, Monti Antonio, Reggiani, ROQ, and many more. www.i-sub.co.uk

Pantone LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, is the world-renowned authority on colour. Since 1963, Pantone has been inspiring design professionals with products, services and leading technology for the colourful exploration and expression of creativity. The PANTONE® name is known worldwide as the standard language for colour communication from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer. www.pantone.co.uk

X-Rite develops, manufactures, markets and supports innovative colour solutions through measurement systems, colour standards and services. The Company, which now includes colour industry leader Pantone, Inc., is the global leader in colour science and technology. X-Rite provides instruments to a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. www.xrite.com

BTMA The British Textile Machinery Association is a non-profit making organisation interfacing the quality production expertise of British textile machinery manufacturers with the requirements of global textile industries. Among the many strengths of Britain’s textile machinery manufacturers is their focus on innovation and the future. www.btma.org.uk

SDC Society of Dyers and Colourists The SDC is an outstanding provider of colour education, offering a range of internationally recognised coloration courses and qualifications. Our mission is to educate the changing world in the science of colour. www.sdc.org.uk

Roland DG’s digital printing business consists primarily of developing wide-format inkjet printers and vinyl cutters for sign and display manufacturers that produce billboards, posters and other graphic works. The company provides a diverse lineup of printers that suit the requirements and applications of a variety of users. The most popular of these are inkjet printers that use eco-solvent inks with excellent weather and water resistance for printing on sign media such as vinyl, canvas and paper. Most recently, Roland DG has been expanding the potential of the on-demand printing market with a lineup that includes UV-LED printers capable of handling a wide variety of print applications, and dye-sublimation transfer printers that excel at printing onto textiles, enabling users to print exactly the right quantity of what they need, exactly when they need it. Click here for more information.

IGI, the Global Wallcoverings Association, is a worldwide not-for-profit organisation with the mission to increase the ability of wallcovering industry members to solve their business problems by providing a forum for discussion, disseminating information, and representing the industry before government and standards bodies in order to facilitate the establishment and the promotion of industry standards. www.igiwallcoverings.org

The Wallcoverings Association (WA) is a nonprofit trade association representing wallcoverings manufacturers, distributors and suppliers. The WA provides a vehicle for communication between various segments of the wallcoverings industry while promoting the use of wallcoverings in the marketplace. www.wallcoverings.org/

The InterioJet 3300 is a multi-pass, water-based inkjet system for printing on decor paper used for interior decoration, such as laminate floors and furniture. Boasting a fast start-up as well as brilliant and consistent finishing quality, it offers suppliers of laminated surfaces the highest degree of designer freedom and enables them to deliver just-in-time, customized interior decoration. For advanced workflow and color management integration to the creative and reproduction processes, as well as cross color management with the analog printing processes, Asanti handshakes with full compatibility to the latest AVA CAD CAM products. AVA CAD CAM is a popular specialist design and color software solution in the decorative printing industry. Click here for more information.

CRUSE is a German specialist world-leading in High-End-Scanners for capturing large format originals in 2D and 3D. Our mission is clear: Providing our clients with high-quality custom-made products while constantly focusing on the highest image- and color quality. https://crusescanner.com

Designer and manufacturer of high-quality scanners for the decor industry, cultural institutions, creative people and high-quality digitization service providers. A company that has always been focused on technological innovation which concentrates the experience of three generations of designers. A story that continues, step by step, thanks to the desire to innovate, to offer cutting-edge products and to invest in the world of high-quality digitization. All METIS scanners are proudly Made in Italy. www.metis-group.com

Technical Conference Management is an independent enterprise founded with the aim of organizing and hosting technical and scientific conferences. We are striving to offer our customers conferences of the highest technical and scientific level in selected fields of interest. Our independence of existing organizations and businesses enables us to be completely free in the selection of topics, papers and speakers. We organize conferences all over Europe and are highly flexible as concerns the venue of our conferences. www.tcman.at

The Digital Printing Association (DIPA) was founded for the leading trade fair LIGNA 2019 by the companies HOMAG Group, MB Digitalprint, Deutsche Messe AG, Li & Co, Durst Phototechnik and Adler-Werk Lackfabrik. DIPA takes a holistic view of the individual surface design process and wants to make digital printing accessible to as many users as possible as an innovative process. It sees itself as a “common future workshop” for topics such as consulting, knowledge transfer and standardization or certification. DIPA’s most important goal is to make digital printing accessible as an innovative process for manufacturers in the industries mentioned. The new working group brings together experts from all process steps of industrial surface design using digital printing with companies that are already successfully using this technology. The technology partners would like to offer access to digital printing for companies that deal with surface design. www.dipa-surface.com