On 18^th of April 2007 Slovenian Print Forum, named Printing of Future and Future of Printing, which took at GRAF & PACK fair in Celje.

Slovenian Print Forum 2007, which reaped exceptional enthusiasm of participants, will be written to history as first event that unite printers, professors and students of printing area in such a great number. The new Printing guidelines were presented by various lecturers from three different countries – Slovenia, Croatia and Belgium. The whole project was fully supported by FESPA (The Federation of European Screen Printers Associations).

Promotion of Slovenian Print Forum was very effectual, as notification about event with a program was published so on the official web page of Celjski sejem (fair in Celje) as also on our portal www.all4print.net. Members of Portal Community (almost 160 members) get invitation by e-mail, sponsor of distribution, Canon Adria sent invitations about Forum to 1600 addresses of representatives of different printing branches all over Slovenia, information about the Forum was also in printed catalogues and on official invitations of Celje fair.

Lecturers from Slovenia, Croatia and Belgium introduced new guidelines and future of printing. Entire event was fully supported by FESPA (The Federation of European Screen Printers Associations).

Slovenian Print Forum attracted almost 200 participants, from these nearly 130 students, who educate for graphical and multimedia professions.
Students were mostly from Faculty of Natural Sciences, surprisingly lots of students arrived from “Veleuèilište”, Varaždin. Also students from Graphic and Multimedia middle school and some students from Zagreb attended the seminar.

Picture 1: The audience from Slovenia and Croatia.

We wanted to present to students that profession they have chosen is very interesting and it will be perspective especially for those who want to educate in graphical and multimedia branches. We have been greatly satisfied because of feedback of students and other participants from different printing areas.

Representatives of SDT Institute (which was organiser of Slovenian Print Forum 2007) were listing students in front of entrance to the Blue Hall (students who left their contact details, get by e-mail an username and password for Forum’s lectures content accessing), they were inscribing new members to SDT Section and gathering entrance fee for the Forum.

Participation at the Forum for students of graphics and multimedia fields was free, because we are aware that those build the future of printing industry. Also members of SDT Section have special discounts in participation of our seminars (depend on status of membership), which is also a reason of gaining more and more members recently.

At the Forum we tried to indicate directions of the market at the moment and which are market needs for today and for tomorrow, how to organize business and professions of future.

We represented to screen printers some of market niches and we represented also some statistical data, which were intervened from Bundesverband Druck und Medien e.V. (BVDM) – German Association for Print and Media.

David Škrl, president of the Section SDT, who greeted all participants, also prepared lecture about special effects in screen printing.


Professor Dr. Marta Marta Klanjšek – Gunde had lecture about effective pigments.


Irena Bertiæ (Graphics faculty “Sveuèilište in Zagreb”) had lecture about »Hi-Fi« printing.

Secretar of Section of SDT and so organizer Slovenian Print Forum 2007, Edvard Sternad, represented colour printing as opportunity for extension of offer and success on the market.

Representative of Canon Adria, Goran Sretenoski, was sponsor of distribution (notification about Slovenian Print Forum event and invitation to affiliation into SDT Section was sent to 1600 addresses of printers from different printing branches). He invited all participants to take part at the Canon Solutions day event, which took place the next day, on 19^th of April 2007 in hotel Mons in Ljubljana.
Canon Adria was also sponsor of break-time. Participants had refreshment with pre-prepared snack and drink during the pause.

From 22nd – 23rd of March 2007 strategic conference about Future of Printing took place at Directors Summit in Geneva. It was organised by FESPA for 100 most influential people of printing branches, who came from 28 states of Europe.
Four Slovenian printing experts attended to this event and they prepared for Slovenian Print Forum attractive overview of main thoughts from discussion in Geneva.

We are very proud of this achievement because this is recognition more to our SDT Section for well done work in FESPA organisation.

Tadeja Muck, professor at Faculty of Natural Sciences beside of lecture about novelties of Innovative Printing area intervened to participants a debate from Geneva.

FESPA organized strategically conference for 100 the most influent people of printing industry from 28 European countries. We succeeded to send 4 Slovenian people of printing branch to this event. We are very proud in this achievement, as this has been another confession to our SDT Section for well done work in the FESPA organization.

Slovenian section was the only one, which conveyed a representative Tadeja Muck to the Forum. Beside of the lecture about novelties of the Innovative printing area, she presented a debate from Geneva.

Tadeja Muck, Marko Kumar and Edvard Sternad shared main thoughts about the program from Geneva with participants.

Tadeja Muck

Marko Kumar

We could examine also the first representation from set of demonstrations of successful business practices, which have been organised from Section SDT of Slovenia. Christian Duykaerts, director of production of successful Belgium Company Print & Display and member of FESPA Board presented European association of screen and digital printers at first and in continuation he was talking about the control of entire process from idea to final product inside printing company and relations with agencies at distribution of market cake.

Christian Duykaerts

At least followed a short presentation of the largest world branch Screen and Digital Printing fair, FESPA Berlin 2007 (5^th – 9^th of June) and the project of STD Institute, named 3D Print Forum: Let’s make it in 3D!, which will be our way of presentation at FESPA in Berlin. We challenged all presented to pre-register on www.fespa2007.com and assure themselves free tickets for FESPA event.

At exhibition place in C1 hall we were having located our own stand all time of duration of the Celje fair, where we promoted FESPA and FESPA Berlin 2007.

General impression of Slovene printing event has been marvellous, because it was the first time, when so many students, professors an representatives of printing branch would be gathered at the same place. Participants were the same opinion that it had been too few seminars in Slovenia by now and they hope that some similar event will happen very soon. We completely agree with their thoughts and we could say that the Section SDT will make an effort to organise smaller meetings already in this year, where themes, which were represented at the Slovenian Print Forum2007 will be worked on more in detail.

Forum was concluded by David Škrl, the president of SDT Section with words: “Please rise a hand, who dare to doubt about future of printing!”

Lubiana, 23th of April 2007