Simon Daplyn of Sun Chemical joins us to talk about his education, career, and the future of the ink industry
Simon Daplyn has spent his whole career in inkjet, from studying colour chemistry at Leeds to a PhD in digital textile printing and, today, running product and marketing for the digital inks business at Sun Chemical. In this wide-ranging conversation he talks Jack Gocher through how digital inks are developed, sold and regulated, and the future of the ink industry.
Along the way we get into why the sales conversation has moved from chemistry to value, how inkjet found its sweet spot everywhere from ceramic tiles to fast fashion, the return to water-based inks and the drying problem still to solve, the real relationship between sustainability and cost, and the big opportunities opening up in packaging and functional print.
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