ITMA 1999, Drupa 2000, Heimtextil 2001 and DPI 2001


Stork displayed its complete line of digital printers by ITMA 1999 within Paris. It exhibited its pale purple, a seven-color incessant inkjet that Stork urbanized for use by unthinking and acidic dyes for printing cellulosic and protein fibers. The pale purple generated a 254-dpi medium by means of gray levels for extremely towering obvious declaration. It might print at an utmost throughput velocity of 17.5m2/hr. Stork as well exhibited its Zircon drop-on-demand piezo inkjet based going on the Konica eight PIJ turn out head printer. Stork configured this machine to print go away dyes. It produces 360 dpi and throughput of 6.9m2/hr. Stork also exhibited its yellowish-brown PIJ imprinter based on the Mimaki seven-color 360±720 dpi TX machine. Stork offered the yellowish-brown for printing imprudent dyes for cellulosic cloth printing. It as well exhibited a double assembly room steamer for setting up digitally printed dyes. Stork ran addicted to technological hurdles with the pale purple, resulting in its discontinuation. It continues to rebrand Mimaki and Konica printers improved through Stork software. Encad showed its four-color TIJ 300 dpi fabric printer at ITMA.

In adding to Stork’s versions, Mimaki exhibited its seven-color TX PIJ inkjet and Konica exhibited its eight-color 360 dpi PIJ printer configured for moreover scatter or hasty dyes. A figure of additional value-added manufacturers, counting DGS of Como, Italy, developed superior fabric handling and software for the Mimaki printer. As mentioned beforehand, Ichinose Toshin Kogyo Co. Ltd established its 12-color 300 dpi TIJ picture Proofer printer outputting 4±12m2/hr. Perfecta Print AG exhibited its produce Master four-color inkjet. Foxtrot (previously Signtech, at the present fraction of Nur Macroprinters) exhibited one of it’s in the black printers as a digital fabric poster printer.

Next to Drupa 2000, DPS and Aprion unveiled their supernatural PIJ print head method that will afterward constrain the Reggiani DReAM printer.

DuPont introduce the Artistri 3210 next to Heimtextil in Germany in January 2001. It used Spectra’s water broadminded Nova Q PIJ print heads gunfire DuPont Artistri inks on a Vutek 3.2 indicator extensive media display place. Its print thickness is 3.05 m. DuPont promoted this strategy for the printing of residence furniture. In 2002, DuPont unveiled its Artistri 2020 printer using DuPont customized Seiko Instruments PIJ print heads on an Ichinose steamy belt fabric transport method.

Within the mechanism of 2001 at the Atlanta DPI demonstration, Leggett and Platt (L&P) introduced its Virtu sequence of UV-cure printers that it built intended for printing mattress ticking and for additional applications.