Digital Printing

What's driving change and accelerating demand for digital printing?

by FESPA | 06/10/2020
What's driving change and accelerating demand for digital printing?

Debbie McKeegan speaks to Duncan Ferguson, the Vice President of Commercial and Industrial Printing for Epson Europe. Debbie asks how Epson is driving change and how the industry must evolve at speed to meet both consumer expectations.

Epson technologies have been at the forefront of the textile industries evolution and the development of new emerging markets. Duncan Ferguson is the vice president of commercial and industrial printing for Epson Europe, and responsible for Wide Format Textiles and Labels. In our latest podcast interview we discover how Epson is driving change and how the industry must evolve at speed to meet both consumers expectations and the evolution of the global textile marketplace

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