Michel Caza is born in France, August 2, 1935,
High School and University in journalism (France) and sociology (Sweden)
He entered in the screen-printing field 1954 in Stockholm (Sweden), 52 years ago (student job!).
His ex-company, Graficaza (1983), devoted to industrial graphic screen-printing and POP/POS was sold during June 2004.
The company (2.500 m2) was managed by his wife Thérèse, the Marketing and General Manager.
Specialized in extremely sophisticated type of screen-printing in process colors fine lines (up to 300 lines/inch), and digital printing on any type of substrates from paper to any plastic materials and others.
As an "Art Master screen-printer", Michel Caza has been printing more than 2.800 Fine art original serigraphs and reproductions and was working 40 years with the most famous artists in the whole world.
Graficaza, his ex-company because of the high quality of its works, won 350 Awards between 1983 and 2004 in the American and European Awards Competitions, in all the fields of applications of the graphic, artistic and industrial screen-printing technology…. A world record!
Now his best pupils from Canada, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, India and China keep the tradition going and win lot of Awards!
Michel Caza, is also a technical writer, a conferences, workshops and seminars’ speaker – everywhere in the world, a consultant and a searcher.
He has been participating to the elaboration of extremely sophisticated improvements of the screen-printing technology, in the fields, of UV (he is one of its initiators during 1977 in screen and 1996 in digital), very fine lines halftone printing, the high tension of the screen, inks, squeegees and machinery developments, stochastic halftones, analog and digital processes for prepress, and many other things in the field of industrial screen-printing (often covered by the « industrial secret »)…and digital printing UV technology, etc. He is working on the print sequences and ICC profiles, color spaces and control of the files in screen and digital.
He is now working as a consultant in screen and digital printing technologies, with his small company “Michel Caza Eurl”
He has been (1962) one of the founders of the FESPA: The Federation of European Screen Printers and Digital Imagers Associations, 28 European countries + India, China, Thailand and Australia.
Member (1982) of the Academy of Screen-printing Technology (ASPT), he was its President between October 2004 and October 2006.
He has been the President of FESPA from June 1996 to June 1999 and was again its President from October 2000 to June 2002.
He is now one of its 8 “Board members/Directors”, since 1989.
He was the President of the French Screen & digital printers Association (GPSF) from October 2000 to April 2005. He is now one of its Vice-President in charge of the Environment and High-Tech Committee he chairs.
January 2007.
