The Evolution of digital textile printing (FESPA 2005) Part 3

Because mentioned previous, by the side of ITMA within Paris in 1999, Stork of Boxmeer, the Netherlands, exhibited a numeral of incessant inkjet printing systems that it had urbanized and two drop-on-demand piezoelectic printers that it had rebranded and improved with Stork software.

Even as Stork has since discontinued its labors to expand an incessant inkjet short-run manufacture printer, it has refocused its labors on decorative digital printing systems that other manufacturers have built through its Stork Digital Imaging BV separation. Stork continues its company with Lectra of Paris, the globe manager in fabric and clothing software. Mimaki provisions its TX sequence of printers to Stork, which has recognized them as the seven- color Amba and eight-color Sapphire and cobalt II. It also continues to present the Konica, at the present Konica-Minolta, PIJ wide-format fabric printer beneath its Zircon product name for scatter dye printing of polyester and additional amenable polymeric fabrics.

digital printing FESPA 2005

Stork Digital Imaging BV exhibited its cobalt II at FESPA 2005. Stork as well promoted its Digital Print Asia (DPA) combined business enterprise with the Yeh collection that has its manufacture ability situated in Samutsakorn, Thailand. Stork has urbanized a guarantee organization with DPA called Stork U SeeÕ that guarantees its clientele that intend samples shaped in one of Stork’s example overhaul offices can be reproduced precisely at its bulk manufacture location in Thailand. Stork has situated its example overhaul offices at Boxmeer in the Netherlands, New York capital and Giridara Kapugoda within Sri Lanka. Stork offers its example manufacture up to 50 meters extended at its repair offices and construction over 50 meters extended from its Thai making interior. This commerce classification joint through inkjet printing offers clientele the option of shorter print runs, less account risk, manufacture to competition shorter style cycles, unlimited colorways, and no do again distance end to end restraint.

digital printing FESPA 2005

Hollanders Printing Systems BV of Eindhoven plus Boxmeer, the posterior- parkland, introduced its Color Booster fabric manufacture inkjet printer. It reports 90% manufacture uptime based on top of its beta knowledge. The Hollander worth proposal for its clientele is to offer the supple compensation of digital printing and dispensation in an elevated picture superiority scheme that can function approximately the timepiece with a smallest amount of worker interference with low down process charge. It installed 14 of these printers flanked by June 2004 and May 2005 as beta tests and reports purchaser approval in succession manufacture operations with the Color Booster. It employs 16 piezo drop-on-demand print heads with 180 nozzles every to manufacture 360 _ 360 dpi to 2880 _ 2880 dpi descriptions with eight print colors. Hollanders claims the Color Booster can print on 80m2/hr printing four-color 360 _ 360 dpi prints (2 _ 4 colors) at 25±50% reporting and 39 m2/hr at 100% coverage. It claims the Color Booster be able to print on 50 m2/hr eight-color 720 _ 360 dpi at 25± 50% reporting and 22m2/hr at 100% reporting. It prints fabrics up to 2.3m wide with metaphors awake to 2.23m broad.