FuturePrint Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Perhaps surprisingly, the best wide format print projects rarely begin with print. Rather, they begin with an idea, a vision, a story, and a shared ambition to create something that moves people. In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson is joined by Stanislas de Missolz from Groupe MediaGraphic to explore the remarkable story behind their second consecutive succes...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, we are joined by Edd West , Business Unit Manager for Continuous Inkjet (CIJ), Emma Anderson , Global Marketing Manager, and Charlotte Baile , who supported the launch of the new Linx 9000 Series at Interpack. The conversation explores a refreshing approach to industrial product development—one that begins not with technology, but with u...

Send us Fan Mail Digital marketing moves fast, gets measured in clicks, and disappears in a day. Print does the opposite, and that tension sits at the heart of our conversation with Kierian Cameron , the founding editor of Brand Cult , the UK’s first print-only business newspaper for entrepreneurs and founders. Kierian shares her unconventional path into publishing and brand building, then unpacks...

Send us Fan Mail A corrugated box looks simple until you try to print something different on every single one, at speed, with the same reliability you expect from industrial production. We’re joined by Charles Tonna, CEO at Buskro, and Christophe Merlier, VP of Research and Innovation, to explain how their 50-year heritage in mailing and high-throughput variable data is powering a new push into di...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Mark Stephenson about the launch of his new venture, The Spark Organisation , and why storytelling has become one of the most powerful differentiators in the print and technology industries. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience at Fujifilm, Mark reflects on the shift from traditional corporate communica...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Natalie Thrall , Marketing Manager at Nazdar , about the changing role of marketing, storytelling and communication in industrial print. Operating in a highly technical world of ink chemistry, performance data and application expertise, Nazdar faces the challenge of translating complex innovation into clear, eng...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson is joined by Matteo Conte , Marketing Manager at Polytype , to explore the evolving role of marketing and storytelling in industrial print. While the sector has traditionally focused on technical specifications and performance metrics, Matteo argues that a shift is underway - from B2B to what he calls “B2H” (business-to-hum...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Frazer Chesterman speaks with Steve Williamson, CEO of Global Inkjet Systems (GIS), about leadership, technology, market change and the future direction of industrial inkjet. Steve reflects on his four years at GIS, having joined the business from outside the inkjet sector after a career in RF, defence and security. He shares how his ini...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Frazer Chesterman speaks with Edgar Llop and Aliasgar Eranpurwala about printhead performance, recovery, and the launch of a new diagnostic technology set to change how the industry measures print quality. The conversation centres on the introduction of ANA (Automatic Nozzle Test Analyser), developed by People & Technology and launch...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Dr Simon Daplyn and Phil Jackman of Sun Chemical about the fast-evolving world of metal decoration, direct-to-shape printing and the growing role of inkjet in can production. The discussion begins by defining metal decoration, including the difference between three-piece and two-piece cans, and why each presents...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, we speak with Christophe Imbert from Lubrizol about how digital printing is evolving in response to changing market conditions, and the growing role of chemistry in enabling that shift. Drawing on nearly two decades at Lubrizol, Christophe shares a perspective that connects materials science with real-world print performance. A central t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Clay Oliff, President and CEO of Polytype America Corporation , to explore how the beverage can market is being reshaped by changing consumer behaviour, brand fragmentation, and the rise of digital direct-to-shape printing. Once defined by high-volume, standardised production, the beverage can industry is now ev...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, we speak with Marc Graindourze from Agfa about the evolving role of inkjet in packaging printing, and how the technology is beginning to find its place in one of the most demanding areas of the print industry. Marc outlines the ongoing challenges that continue to define packaging print — from complex substrates and high production requir...

Send us Fan Mail Single-pass inkjet is no longer just “printing faster”, it is changing how manufacturers mark, identify and customise products on the line. We sit down with Ruud Oderkerken and Sven Bongartz from Bergstein in the Netherlands to unpack what’s driving the shift to direct-to-object digital printing as production runs fragment, labour costs rise and sustainability targets tighten. We...

Send us Fan Mail You can feel how close we are to a world where your “digital agent” can take the meeting for you. The unsettling part is not the tech, it is the question it forces: what is left for humans when a bot can summarise, persuade, and perform? Sitting face to face with Dave Erasmus , we dig into the piece that still resists automation: the messy, emergent creativity that happens when tw...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson speaks with Stefano Rogora , Marketing Manager EMEA at INX Europe , about the evolving role of ink in a rapidly changing print and packaging landscape. Stefano outlines three major shifts reshaping the industry: the structural move towards packaging, the growing impact of regulation - particularly in Europe - and the increa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson welcomes back Dario Urbinati , CEO of Gallus Group , for a timely and far-reaching conversation about the structural changes reshaping print, packaging and the wider industrial economy. Two years ago on this podcast, Dario predicted that the market was not simply going through a temporary downturn, but entering a more funda...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever admired a huge billboard or a flawless event backdrop and wondered what it costs the planet to make it, this conversation goes straight to the uncomfortable bit the print industry often skips.  Speaking to Nova Abbott from Kavalan , the PVC-free materials brand known for “Be Clean Print Green”, one point came through clearly. The real test is not whether sustainabil...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast, Marcus Timson reconnects with Paul Jenkins , Founder of ThePackHub , for a deep dive into the evolving world of packaging innovation. Drawing on insights from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone - which tracks over 11,000 packaging innovations globally - Paul outlines how sustainability has become the dominant force shaping the industry. Today,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the FuturePrint Podcast , Marcus Timson speaks with Julien Bianchi , CEO of Polytype , to explore the remarkable evolution of a company whose roots stretch back more than a century. Originally emerging from Switzerland’s precision engineering tradition and the newspaper press industry, Polytype has transformed itself into a global leader in direct-to-shape packa...

Send us Fan Mail A violent highway pileup changed how a CEO leads—and what he believes about safety, risk, and time. Marcus sits down with Javier Quesada of Kento Digital Printing to unpack how a near-fatal crash became a turning point for his leadership and why he now treats inaction as the most dangerous strategy of all. The conversation moves from personal recovery and gratitude to hard-nosed c...

Send us Fan Mail Thousands of parts per minute, each one different. That’s the new reality for direct-to-object printing, and it changes how brands think about cost, speed, and flexibility. We sit down with Ken Stack , Executive Chairman of Engineered Printing Solutions , to unpack why single pass inkjet and smart automation have pushed DTO past the tipping point and what it actually takes to run...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are joined by Fredric Petit and Franko Vrhovac from Emerald Technology Ventures and we discover more about investment into new print and packaging technology.  Emerald is not a traditional fund. It operates at the intersection of venture capital and open innovation, acting as a matchmaker between startups and more than 50 global corporates seeking new technolog...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is 2 of 2 and is an interview with keynote speaker Güneri Tugcu  Following the themes of 'When Packaging Talks Back', we ask 'Will Print Listen'? What if the most valuable thing you print isn’t colour or coverage, but credibility? We explore how connected packaging turns labels and care tags into living product identities, and why printers who embr...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is 1 of 2. 'When Packaging Talks Back' is followed directly after for episode 2 by 'When Packaging Talks Back: Will Print Listen'? Packaging used to be a dead end for brand relationships. Now it’s becoming the front door. We sit down with keynote speaker Güneri Tugcu in the first of a 2 part podcast, to unpack how connected packaging turns every pr...