Part I - Packaging market developments in 2022

• Where digital fits into the packaging world
• The changing role of packaging, new functions enabled by digital print
• Choices for printing labels, cartons, corrugate, flexibles, rigid plastics, glass and metal
• Litho, flexo, gravure and special decorating
• Electrophotography SWOT
• Inkjet SWOT
• The importance of workflow
• Emerging routes to market
• Comparing analogue and digital printing
  

Part II - The economics of digital print

• Cost model comparison
• Capacity of equipment, time to market - complementary or competitive to analogue print

Part III - New technologies in 2022

• Digital printing technology map, and digital finishing
• Insights from Labelxpo 2022
• Workflow
• Materials
• Finishing

Part IIII - The future packaging world

• Sustainability
• Changing retail landscape
• Changing supply chains enabled by digital print - the democratisation of label & packaging production
• Changing customer requirements, how big brands are being disrupted by smaller brands