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Digital printing has been developed by a number of companies
that have exhibited at previous ITMAs. In general, ITMA 2003
had real production machines geared to increasing market share.
The DuPont™ Artistri™ 2020 from DuPont, Wilmington,
Del., was exhibited at ITMA 2003 as a fully integrated production
digital printer for a wide variety of substrates in the apparel
and home furnishings arena.
The printer was developed in conjunction with Japan-based Ichinose
Toshin Kogyo Co. Ltd. The machine features advanced piezo-electric
printing heads with resolutions between 360 and 720 dots per
inch, and productivity of 30 to 50 square meters per hour (m2/hr).
The Artistri inks are delivered in self-contained delivery systems.
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DuPont™ Artistri™ Disperse Dye Ink
DuPont Ink Jet announced the commercial availability
of DuPont™ Artistri™ D700 Disperse Dye inks
for digital textile printing. The ink chemistry was introduced
at the ITMA show, Birmingham, UK in October 2003. The
inks have been specifically formulated to work in the
DuPont™ Artistri™ 2020 on-demand digital textile
printer with DuPont™ Artistri™ software and
are available in an eight-color set consisting of cyan,
light cyan, yellow, magenta, light magenta, black, light
black and violet. The aqueous-based inks are specifically
designed for short to medium production runs on polyester
and its blends and are supplied commercially in one-liter
sealed cartridges.
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DuPont™ Artistri™ ink jet
printer
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The inks were formulated with proprietary DuPont dispersion
technology. The inks will provide bright and reproducible colors
to polyester printers with very good all round end-use properties.
The inks can be fixed by the various methods of fixation typically
used in conventional printing with disperse dyes.
Formulated with the same colorants used in conventional textile
printing, the inks offer high-quality, robust printing with
a very wide color gamut, making them ideal for product samples
and small to medium production lots with different designs or
multiple colorways.
Like traditional screen printed inks, the DuPont™ Artistri™
Disperse Dye inks require post-processing to ensure vibrant
and colorfast results.
DuPont™ Artistri™ Disperse Dye inks provide high
reliability in continuous operation, while providing the end-use
performance the textile industry expects.
In addition to disperse dye inks, DuPont™ Artistri™
Ink chemistries include commercially available acid dye and
reactive dye ink and pigment ink, which will be commercially
available in the second quarter of 2004, all specially developed
for digital printing on all popular textile materials.
The DuPont Artistri™ 2020 printer enables sample, strike-off
and short-run digital production printing of fabrics up to 1.8
meters wide. It is a roll-to-roll system that is equipped with
an adhesive print blanket, enabling reliable, high-quality printing
on both woven and knits, including stretch fabrics. The system
and inks are designed for virtually all fiber contents, including:
nylon, silk, cotton, polyester and blend materials including
DuPont Lycra blends. The DuPont™ Artistri™ 2020 printer
sets a new industry standard for print speed, offering several
print modes with speeds exceeding 50 square meters per hour
to allow fast production of digital designs.
The DuPont™ Artistri™ software allows users to print
designs of all types directly from the computer. It includes
textile CAD file format capability for handling color-separated
files for both flat and continuous tones as well as true color
prints. This functionality, along with exceptional color management,
provides exact examples of designs that are attainable in production.
Courtesy: DuPont Ink Jet, Asia Pacific Rim
DUPONT
DuPont Ink Jet 2020 printer
DuPont Ink Jet announced further expansion of its DuPont™
Artistri™ technology for digital textile printing. The
new DuPont Ink Jet 2020 printer, is a fully integrated production-capable,
digital textile printing solution for the printed textile and
apparel industries. The system has been commercially available
since January 2003.
The system will create new business opportunities by making
samples, strike-offs and short-run production both possible
and profitable for textile-to-production cycle from weeks to
days as compared to existing screen-printing methods.
This offering has three main components: the DuPont™ Artistri™
Color Control and Management System (CCMS); DuPont™ Artistri™
ink; and the DuPont Ink Jet 2020 printer.
The DuPont ink jet 2020 printer enables sample, strike-off
and short-run digital production printing of fabrics up to 1.8
meters wide.
The system and inks are designed for virtually all fibre contents,
including nylon, silk, cotton, polyester and blend materials
including DuPont Lycra® blends.
DuPont™ Artisri™ inks are production quality and
are available in Cyan, magenta, yellow, black, light cyan, light
magenta, orange and blue for reactive dye; cyan, magenta, yellow,
black, light cyan, light magenta, red and blue for disperse
dye and pigment and cyan, magenta yellow, black, red, blue,
green, orange and fluorescent yellow and fluorescent red for
acid dye.
DuPont Ink Jet 3210 Printer
The DuPont Ink Jet 3210 printer, powered by DuPont Artistri™
technology, is the world's first integrated digital textile
printing solution created especially for the home furnishing
industry.
The 3210 printer has the following features:
· Prints at speeds up to 30 square meters per hour (
33 square yards per hour)
· In-line heating for drying and curing print before
they exit the printer.
· Roll to roll fabric handling system gives the freedom
to print on various fabrics (cotton, polyester, cotton/polyester
blends, etc.), with no paper backing required, can print two
narrow rolls at the same time.
· Prints fabrics up to 3.2 meters (126 inches) wide,
with a printable width up to 3.05 meters (120 inches).
Reggiani
DReAM industrial ink jet printing Machine
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Reggiani in its endeavour to extend the
digital printing applications on textiles has recently
introduced DReAM ink jet printing machine. This machines
is ideal for industrial ink jet system for commercial
uses. DReAM enables customers to print top fashion apparel,
home textiles, flags, banners and even swimsuits. The
DReAM allows cost-effective industrial printing of short
and medium production runs, thus extending the scope of
digital production beyond sampling applications.
The high quality achieved by the DReAM enables customers
to print top fashion apparel, home textiles, flags banners
and even swimsuits. Now its is possible
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Reggiani Dream Digital printing Machine
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to excute short and medium production runs, thus extending
the scope of digital production beyond sampling applications.
More than ten systems have been sold and are being installed
at leading textile printing companies in USA and Europe.
ZIMMER
Chromotex
The new Chromotex Flatjet digital textile printing machine
was presented at ITMA 2003 and a large number of printed samples
were made available to the interested visitors. The Zimmer Flatjet
newly inhouse developed jets are based on a brandnew worldwide
patent and according to Zimmer totally stepless graduation of
colour tones permits the most beautiful halftone printing ever.
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