Right here’s a roundup of a number of the newest improvements in digital imprinting and laser-engraving tools to assist promotional merchandise distributors and attire decorators develop their choices and make their retailers extra environment friendly.
Epson Introduces Direct-to-Material Printer for North America
The Monna Lisa 8000 is Epson’s first direct-to-fabric printer out there in North America.
The Monna Lisa 8000, Epson’s first direct-to-fabric printer out there in North America, is the end result of over 20 years of analysis, improvement and buyer suggestions, in keeping with the corporate.
“Epson Monna Lisa printers have lengthy maintained a robust status and market place in Italy the place they’ve been used to digitally print materials for a number of the world’s largest worldwide high-fashion manufacturers,” stated Mark Krzywicki, product supervisor, skilled imaging, Epson America Inc. “The Monna Lisa 8000 has been developed to offer that very same prime quality in a extra attainable, easy-to-use bundle – enabling North American firms to print on all kinds of materials domestically for each brief runs and larger-volume orders.”
The printer options eight all-new 4.7-inch printheads to ship crisp textile prints at industrial-level speeds. It might precisely reproduce complicated patterns, coloration gradations and photographic element. The ML-8000 will be put in with both Epson pigment or reactive, acid or disperse ink to finest go well with every buyer’s want and software. Relying on the ink or pigment chosen, it might print on a wide range of textiles, together with cotton, viscose, polyester, nylon, silk, wool and blends. It incorporates a hot-swappable ink system that holds as much as 20 liters of ink per coloration.
AP Lazer Releases Entry-Stage Machine
The SN2616LR from AP Lazer permits startups and small companies to customise a wide range of supplies, with out measurement limitations.
Lansing, MI-based AP Lazer has launched the SN2616LR, an entry-level laser machine designed for profit-seeking hobbyists and startup entrepreneurs. The machine incorporates a low rider carriage cart and may engrave any object with out measurement and weight limitations. It’s armed with 60-watt CO2 laser energy and a 26-inch x-16-inch slicing and engraving space.
From 2020 to 2021, AP Lazer noticed its gross sales improve by 50%, in keeping with Tong Li, CEO. And 90% of that general progress was from enterprise startups. “That’s after we determined to hurry up our entry-level enterprise machine improvement,” he stated.
With a patented open structure and low rider carriage cart, the machine can simply engrave furnishings and residential décor, flooring, pavement, doorways, home windows, and wine barrels and bottles – something a decorator can reduce and customise.
“Creating significant merchandise by engraving sentiments that evoke love, inspiration or particular recollections on one thing at the same time as mundane as a dollar-store wine glass can immediately fulfill a buyer’s want and generate excessive, significant revenue,” Li stated.
Kornit Introduces Excessive-Quantity Digital Manufacturing Resolution
The Kornit Atlas MAX Poly permits for high-volume digital manufacturing on polyester and polyester-blended material.
Kornit Digital lately launched the Kornit Atlas MAX Poly system, a direct-to-garment resolution that permits high-quality digital ornament in vibrant colours on polyester and poly-blends. The machine capitalizes on the rising demand for trendy sportswear and athleisure.
Omer Kulka, chief advertising officer at Kornit, known as the machine a “sport changer,” including, “As style and sports activities attire merge, there’s new alternative for modern style on polyester, one of many fastest-growing textile verticals. For the primary time, leisure sportswear, promotional and sports activities manufacturers can embrace vibrant and colourful design with Kornit’s confirmed MAX know-how.”
The machine was unveiled throughout Kornit Vogue Week in Tel Aviv. It options course of automation and good autonomous high quality management. The know-how empowers a number of results, permitting decorators to emulate threadless embroidery, high-density vinyl, display transfers and 3D results. It’s suitable with mesh and plain materials, together with brushed polyester, whereas sustaining sturdiness and breathability.
The Atlas MAX Poly permits for Pantone coloration matching and has a large coloration gamut, together with neon colours, utilizing a single-step mechanism for minimizing manufacturing footprint whereas maximizing versatility. The machine options automated garment loading and pallet adjustment for repeatable, high-quality output with minimal errors, boosting throughput as much as 20%, in keeping with the corporate. The machine has been efficiently deployed amongst 4 international beta prospects and is predicted to be out there to all prospects someday this quarter.
Vastex Provides Vitality-Environment friendly Dryer for DTG Printing
The Lo-E Dryer from Vastex makes use of 20% much less vitality than comparable dryers.
The Lo-E Dryer from Bethlehem, PA-based Vastex cures digital white ink, digital CMYK and DTG pretreatment at a speedy charge, whereas utilizing 20% much less vitality than comparable dryers, in keeping with Mark Vasilantone, president.
The DTG-capable dryer, with a 30-inch-wide belt, cures as much as 45 clothes an hour printed with digital white ink at 3 minutes dwell time. It might remedy as much as 88 clothes at a 1.5-minute dwell time, appropriate for CMYK DTG clothes, DTG pretreatment or clothes display printed with water-based or discharge ink.
The modular design permits for expandability to simply add chambers and conveyor size as manufacturing wants improve.
The dryer was designed “to fill the void for direct-to-garment printers who have to remedy as much as 40 shirts per hour, however who’ve restricted electrical present out there,” Vasilantone stated.
Drawing solely 22 amps, the dryer’s two 24-inch-wide x 18-inch-deep high-efficiency infrared heaters present 4600 watts of energy, maximizing curing capability and in flip, minimizing vitality prices per garment cured. The peak-adjustable heaters provide dual-zone temperature management with a lift zone to succeed in remedy temperatures shortly.
“It’s essentially the most energy-efficient dryer in our lineup, and possibly the world,” Vasilantone stated.