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Karl Forbes is Xaar's Group R&D Director and, in his newly created role, heads up a 75-strong development team. Bringing together the engineering skills from across FFEI, Megnajet and Xaar’s printhead business, Karl and his team are ensuring Xaar delivers on its development roadmap and are enabling sustainable growth for its inkjet customers.

In this discussion, Marcus Timson and Karl talk about the importance of R&D in driving innovation and how Karl’s background is helping the development of printing technologies in both existing and new industrial and functional inkjet applications.

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