Events.
Trade show and event calendar: September 2026 → 2028. Bold entries are must-attends for textile printing and POD.
| Dates | Event | Location | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23–25, 2026 | PRINTING United Expo | Las Vegas | No. 1 in the US; Apparel Zone, POD zone, “PRINTING AI” program; ~650 exhibitors |
| Oct 21–23, 2026 | Impressions Expo Dallas | Dallas | Apparel decoration: screen, embroidery, DTF/DTG live |
| Oct 28–29, 2026 | Viscom Italia | Milan | Visual communication + textile finishing |
| Jan 12–14, 2027 | PSI | Cologne (new venue) | Europe's largest promotional products show |
| Jan 21–23, 2027 | Impressions Expo Long Beach | Long Beach | The largest regional deco-apparel event in the US |
| Jan 26–28, 2027 | RemaDays Warsaw | Nadarzyn near Warsaw | CEE's largest advertising/print/promo show — mandatory for the Polish market |
| Feb 2–4, 2027 | C!Print Lyon | Lyon | The French personalization market; 14,000+ visitors |
| Not announced | Printwear & Promotion LIVE! | NEC Birmingham | The UK's only show strictly for garment decoration; the last edition ran Feb 22–24, 2026 and no 2027 date is up |
| Mar 3–5, 2027 | TecStyle Visions / EXPO 4.0 | Stuttgart | Europe's leading textile decoration show (biennial) |
| Mar 18–20, 2027 | Impressions Expo Atlantic City | Atlantic City | US East Coast, deco-apparel |
| Apr 6–9, 2027 | FESPA Global Print Expo + Textile + ESE + WrapFest | Munich | Europe's flagship specialty print week, with a dedicated Textile zone |
| Apr 27–29, 2027 | FESPA Middle East | Dubai | The growing MENA market |
| Sep 14–16, 2027 | PRINTING United Expo 2027 | Las Vegas | The next edition of the American giant |
| Sep 16–22, 2027 | ITMA 2027 | Hanover | The world's largest textile machinery show (4-year cycle) — industrial digital printing on fabrics |
| Oct 2027 (exp.) | Viscom Italia 2027 | Milan | — |
| May 9–17, 2028 | drupa 2028 | Düsseldorf | The global print mega-show — plan far ahead |
Every date in this table was opened on Aug 24, 2026 on a page that prints it, and the link goes to that page. Four rows link to trade press rather than to the organiser: FESPA Mexico via Texintel, FESPA Munich 2027 via Print Monthly because fespa.com turns bots away, ITMA via Messe Hannover because itma.com publishes its dates only behind a page that 404s to us, and PRINTING United 2026 via PRINTING United Alliance. One edition is still unannounced: Printwear & Promotion LIVE! last ran Feb 22–24, 2026, and its site carries no 2027 date, so the row says so rather than guessing a month. Aggregators disagree with organisers more often than you would expect — tradefairdates.com puts TecStyle Visions in February 2027, Messe Stuttgart’s own page says 03–05 March. Trust the organiser.
What the latest editions delivered
FESPA 2026 · Barcelona Textile zone debut, Atlas MATRIX premiere
May 19–22, 550+ exhibitors, 14,000+ visitors, under the banner “The Place for Experts”. The first dedicated Textile zone (Kornit, Brother, ROQ, STAHLS’); commercial availability of Atlas MATRIX; headline themes: sustainability, personalization, automation/AI.
Sources: ME Printer · Print Monthly
PRINTING United 2025 · Orlando Record: 30,000+ registrations, 838 exhibitors
Decoration premieres: ROQ Impress (automated DTF application, ~500 pcs/h), Melco Summit (on-demand embroidery), UV-DTF from Mimaki. The survey figures ASI carried alongside the show are not show-floor counts: 65.7% of decorators offer DTF, from the State of the Decorated Apparel Industry report, and 53.7% run POD in-house with 74.3% expecting POD sales to grow, from the Apparelist and Alliance survey.
Sources: PRINTING United · ASI
FESPA Print Census The industry's mirror: automation still rare
The 2025 Census (774 companies, 89 countries): 75% of print businesses have <50 employees, ~50% have zero automation, ~40% don’t use AI, 92% say sustainability matters — but only 40% treat it strategically. Recruitment for the 2026 Census is underway (new additions: web-to-print, skills gaps, price pressure).
Source: WhatTheyThink