With FESPA 2020 and Printing United not taking place, Agfa held a webcast to highlight the solutions the company would have demonstrated at the shows.
Anthony Locicero, Associate editor10.02.20
With COVID-19 postponing FESPA 2020 until next year and canceling Printing United, Agfa held a virtual event to highlight the solutions – including the Oberon RTR3300 and Jeti Tauro H3300 – that the Belgian ink manufacturer would have demonstrated at these shows.
"In our business," said Tom Vermeulen, head of business unit inkjet Sign & Display, "physical contact with customers is of utmost importance.
"In case we are not able to [attend an event] we have no other choice than [to have] online communication."
Hence the Oct. 2 webcast, which featured a panel of Agfa experts – Vermeulen; Reinhilde Alaert, product manager Sign & Display; and Tom Cloots, director industrial inkjet – moderated by Koen Steert, head of sales, Sign & Display, Europe.
Steert noted that this event is a "sneak preview" of Agfa's Studio 5D10, a three-day virtual event (Oct. 6-8) targe
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