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[The Note] Match to print: how to ideally combine digital and rotary screen textile printing techniques
[The Note] How to choose a textile printing partner that suits your company
[The Note] Large format fabric printing: how to choose the most suitable textile printer
In the home furnishing industry, there has always been a demand for wide textiles, op to 3.2 or even 3.4 meters. But for the fashion market, where in the past fabrics of 1.50 meters were most commonly used, nowadays more and more printers are producing fashion fabrics with a width of up to 1.85 meters. This is a logical result of the population getting taller. But how do you as a printer efficiently print large format fabrics? In this blog, I explain what widths of fabric are actually considered “large format” and how you can choose the right printer for your large format production.
[The Note] Finding the right combination of digital and conventional textile printing machines in your production line
Digital textile printing offers printing companies with various advantages, like shortening delivery times, increasing design quality and expanding production capacity. For that reason, increasingly more printing companies are adding a digital textile printer to their production line.
[The Note] The advantages of using reactive inks in digital textile printing
As a digital textile printer, the quality of the print you produce is of utmost importance to your customers. In order to benefit from the high printing quality of digital textile printing machines to the fullest, you need a type of ink that can deliver you that desired level of quality.
[The Note] High-quality blotch printing on fabric with a digital textile printer
Blotches have always been very present in many designs for textiles, whether it is for fashion, sports/swimwear or home textiles. With the increased usage of digital textile printers, blotch printing, however, proved to be a challenge for digital textile printers. How can you still enable high-quality blotch printing on fabric with a digital textile printing machine? In this blog, I explain why blotch printing is difficult for digital textile printing machines and how you could solve these issues.
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[The Note] What determines the price of a digital fabric printing machine?
Increasingly more textile printers acknowledge the advantages that digital textile printing has to offer. Increased production speed, higher levels of quality and more flexibility, to only name a few. Nevertheless, a digital textile printing machine asks for quite a large investment. What determines the price of a digital textile printing? Many printing companies wonder why a digital printer is significantly more expensive than a rotary printing machine. In this blog, I explain what components determine the price of a digital textile printing machine and how your company can benefit from this innovative printing equipment.
[The Note] Digital textile design: what are the new opportunities for designers?
The rise of digital textile printing does not only bring large advantages for production only. The digital printing technology also breaks some major boundaries that conventional printing used to put on designers. As a designer, digital printing helps you to expand your creativity and offers you the opportunity to better respond to the wishes of the market. In this blog, I explain exactly what the advantages of digital textile design are and how you as a designer could benefit from them.
[The Note] How to incorporate a digital textile printer into your production process
Some textile printers have the perception that you only need to plug in a digital textile printer for it to work. However, to truly benefit from your latest investment, there are a few extra steps you have to take. In this blog, I’ll provide you with a checklist full of steps you should take when incorporating a digital textile printing machine into your production process. Use them to your advantage.
[The Note] How to choose between a single-pass and multi-pass digital textile printing machine?
Every printing process is different. What might work for one of your competitors, could not work for your business at all. When thinking about making the transition to digital textile printing, you have a choice to make: single-pass or multi-pass printing? How do you know which printing technique is most profitable for your printing business? To support you in making this decision, I explain which questions you should ask yourself to find out which technique best suits your printing process.