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FESPA British pavilion now filled
DSPA is pleased to say that the UK Pavilion at Fespa’s June exhibition is now full. Apologies if you were planning to join us, but towards the end there was quite a scramble for available space. When visiting the show you will find us in Hall 3.1, next to the Fespa stand. Potential visitors should visit www.fespa2007.com for further details on the exhibition, flights, hotels etc.
Seminar plans: diary note 25 & 26 April
The Digital Shoot-out for entry level flatbed machines has been a nightmare to organise, but it’s done. This is good news, because we should be able to use the formula for other machines later in the year, so let us know which ones you would like to know more about.
The results will be available in Warrington (25 April) and Oxford (26 April). Keep an eye out for an invitation in your in-box. In addition, we shall be looking at the technicalities of drying screen and digital inks on troublesome substrates, plus what else the future may bring.
Harold Schneider Award for Services to the Screen and Digital Industry
We are pleased to announce this year’s award has been made to Professor John Davison of Davison Chemographics.
Prof John W Davison, PhD, CChem, FRSC, FIOP, FTSC. Professor John Davison is managing director of Davison Chemographics, a company he formed in 1979 to solve printers’ problems relating to printing inks. The company runs laboratories for analysing, formulating and testing inks for all printing processes. The company also manufactures products of its research.
John is a visiting professor in the Colour and Polymer Chemistry Department of the University of Leeds. He obtained his Doctorate at the University of Leeds where he researched the preparation of biosensors using printing techniques. He is a Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; a Fellow of Surface Coatings Technology and a Fellow of the Institute of Printing. He is Immediate Past President of the Oil and Colour Chemists Association.
John is Chairman of the IGDS MSc Colour Application Committee and lecturer on the Impress Graphics Technology Course. He is also a member of the Screen Process Research Group; Formulation Science and Technology Group of the RSC; Colour Group and the British Society of Rheology. He serves on the BSI Graphics Technology committee and is a member of the ISO TC130 Graphics Technology Group.
John has worked tirelessly in his own time for many Associations, including ours, and the Screen Printing Technical Association (SPTA) which some London printers in particular will remember with warmth.
He has recently developed an amazing breakthrough in the printing of Braille amongst other inventions. As he said himself, ‘It’s not often the backroom-boys who receive acknowledgement, this makes for a change for the better’.
It is hoped the presentation will take place at the DSPA Awards ceremony on 17 October in Coventry.
Screen printers reunited
We have been asked to mention that if industry people have lost touch with each other and would like to be reunited, they are welcome to use the forum on our web site www.dspa.co.uk as a virtual meeting point. Digital and pad printers are also welcome.
We look forward to seeing you at Sign UK, NEC, 1 to 3 May, where we shall again be sharing accommodation with Screen Process & Digital Imaging Magazine.
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