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Inkjet Textile
Printers
Textile printes
at Dubai 2009
at FESPA 09
June
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Textile Printers

at FESPA 09
Nicholas Hellmuth and Marian Tager
Copyright 2009

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at FESPA 09

Textile printers at FESPA 2009, May 12

D.gen

Monti Antonio

Eurotech

MS

Artrix
Teleios
The S

Mermaid

Gandinovations
Jeti Aquajet

Hilord

Klieverik GTC 81/3400

Hollanders

Color Booster XL
Color Booster for carpets
Color Edge
Color Fix
Color Wash

Itochu

InkMax 1800

Kala

DS-67 Dye Sub Heat Transfer

Klieverik

GTC 81/1850 SP
GFC 81/2300

Monti Antonio 72
Monti Antonio 200
Monti Antonio 853

MS-JP5
MS-TWO (Garmet Printer)

Mutoh

Mutoh Viper Transfer printer

Mutoh TX Dye Sub

Sawgrass

ATP Color Dye Sub FP-740 (Cutters added)

Roland Dye Sub FP-740

SCREEN PRODUCTS Benelux BV

+ Bedigital
ATP color DFP-1320

Sensient

ATP color DFP-64 UV edition

SETeMa

Porta-Wash

Solvetex

Optimum Digital Planet Opt-1080

Konica Minolta

Sorim

Kornit

Transmatic

Nassenger VII

Kornit 931DS (Garmet Printer)

La Meccanica
QualiJet HSB
QualiJet HSFP

Texpro CT 260-09-117-50 09 OC

6530 Sport
Trans 7240

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Ink Glossary
Acid dye ink: This kind of ink can be used to print on silk, wool, albumen fiber and polyamide. All the fabrics need pretreatment such as sizing. Most traditional acid dye inks require both pre-treatment and post-treatment of the materials.
Disperse dye inks: Are for dye sublimation onto polyester inkjet textiles via direct printing. You print onto the fabric, not
onto transfer paper. The sublimation for disperse dye inks usually is handled in front of the printer, in a unit attached to the
printer.
Pigment textile Inks: While conventional inks are essentially dye molecules, pigment inks consist of tiny chunks of solid
pigment suspended in a liquid solution. You can print on uncoated cotton and other materials. The resulting colors, however,
are not always as bright as if you use dye inks with pre- and post-treatment.
Reactive dye inks: Are for cotton, silk, rayon, and wool. Silk can be handled with acid dye or reactive dye, depending
on coatings, pre- and post treatment. Several printers can take all three of these ink types (acid dye, reactive dye,
pigmented).
Sublimation-dye process: Sublimation means the ink turns into a gas and heat and pressure assist in this transformation
onto the desired material. There are several kinds of sublimation: one is with wax or thermal ribbons, it is a printing process
that uses special media consisting of a printer ribbon, a heated print head and laminated printer paper. When the printer
head passes over the paper, the image is printed by varying the heat and causing color (consisting of cyan, magenta and
yellow) dyes to be passed on from the ribbon to the paper. Printers such as Matan and Summa use this, as do the desktop
Kodak 8600 series printers.
Another form of Dye Sublimation involves printing with a regular piezo (Epson) printer on transfer paper. Whereas
sublimation for disperse dye inks tends to be handled within the same machine, for dye sublimation inks the transfer paper
is normally run through a calendaring heat press to apply the paper on top of the material to which you wish to sublimate.
The ink turns into a gas and penetrates the inkjet receptor layer of the material. You end up with an image on polyesterbased fabrics, etc. If you wish to sublimate onto ceramic tiles, solid metal, etc then you use a flatbed heat press.
Some people who work in the digital textile media use the jargon dye sub or dye sublimation
to cover everything: the process of print directly on textile as the same of print on transfer paper.
But this term is here used more appropriately in the process of print directly on transfer paper.

Nicholas Hellmuth and Roberto Martellono (left) at Sensient booth at FESPA 09.

Dr. Martial Blanc (right) and Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth at Sensient company in Switzerland.

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D.gen

D.gen Artrix disperse dye printer.

D.gen Teleios disperse dye printer.

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D.gen the S, prints the front and rear at the same time.

Eurotech

Mermaid is a grand format printer with disperse dye system at Eurotech booth.

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Gandinovations

Gandinovations Jeti Aquajet with a disperse dye system.

Hilord

Klieverik GTC 81/3400 is a calendering machine at Hilord booth.

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Hollanders

Hollanders Color Booster XL, disperse dye printing.

Hollanders Color Booster for carpets, uses dye sublimation inks.

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Hollanders Color Edge is an automatic textile cutter.

Hollanders Color Wash is an industrial textile washing machine.

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Itochu

Inkmax IMP 1800, at Itochu booth.

Kala

Kala DS-67 calendering machine.

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Klieverik

GTC 81/1850 SP. Calendering machine at Klieverik booth.

GFC 81/2300, calender fixator for direct digital printed textile from Klieverik.

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Konica Minolta

Nassenger VII, disperse dye printer at Konica Minolta booth.

Kornit

Kornit 931DS, prints direct on garmet at Kornit booth.

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La Meccanica

QualiJet HSB, disperse dye printer.

QualiJet HSFP , Roll to roll disperse dye printer.

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Monti Antonio

Monti Antonio 72, transfer printer calender.

Monti Antonio 200, double transfer printing.

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Monti Antonio 853, calender for transfer thermoprinting.

MS

MS-JP5, disperse dye textile printer at MS booth.

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MS-TWO, garment printer.

Mutoh

Mutoh Viper Transfer, is a dye sublimation printer at Mutoh booth.

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Mutoh Viper TX, disperse dye printer at Mutoh booth.

Sawgrass

ATPColor disperse dye FP-740, with cutters incorporated at Sawgrass.

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Roland disperse dye FP-740 at Sawgrass.

SCREEN PRODUCTS Benelux BV + Bedigital

ATP Color DFP-1320, extra-wide plotter with calender inside at SCREEN PRODUCTS Benelux BV + Bedigital.

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Sensient

ATP Color DFP-64; textile UV edition using water-based UV-curable textile ink from Sensient. FLAAR
has been to the Sensient dual-textile ink headquarters in Switzerland to inspect this innovative ink.
For further information on Sensient textile ink contact martial.blanc@eu.sensient-tech.com

SETeMa

SETeMa porta-Wash, textile washer.

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Solvetex

Optimum Digital Planet Opt-1080, disperse dye printer.

Sorim

Texpro CT 260-09-117-50 09 OC, calendering machine at Sorim booth.

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Transmatic

Transmatic 6530 Sport, calendering machine.

Transmatic Trans 7240, calendering machine and dye fixation.

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Caldera

RIP Software

These reports on RIP software and Color Management for serious UV printers are free downloads on all FLAAR web sites
(follow the link to free downloads) http://www.wide-format-printers.net/reviews_reports_evaluations/free_download.php

RIP, COLOR MANAGEMENT, and ICC Color Profiles options

Once you have a serious UV-curable wide-format printer, you may prefer to have an equally
serious RIP software and color management
equipment.
The RIP software for simple water-based printers such as Canon, Epson, and HP may not
be the same RIP software that could be most
effective and productive on a UV-curable fl atbed or UV-cured roll-to-roll production printer.
I fi rst noticed Caldera RIP on Gandinnovations
UV printers several years ago, then I saw Caldera being used at the Mutoh Europe factory
demo room in Belgium.
When I was visiting the Durst factories in Europe I again noticed that they were using Caldera RIP software.

So I requested access from Caldera so I could

visit their world headquarters in Strasbourg,
France, to spend several days learning more
about their RIP. As a result there is now a
FLAAR Report photo essay on this software.
Most recently I have seen Caldera RIP at the
Shanghai printer trade show in China, at DRUPA in Germany, at FESPA DIgital in Geneva,
SGIA 08 and Viscom Italy 08.

agement system but switched to BARBIERI

because the BARBIERI spectrophotometer
can read more effi ciently and can handle textiles, backlit, wood and other materials that are
either awkward or diffi cult on other brands of
color management instruments. You can learn
about the BARBIERI equipment either from
their headquarters in Brixen or their distributors worldwide.

When I visited a large printshop in Maribor,

northern Slovenia, they were using Caldera
RIP and the manager of technical services for
this company said, Caldera does a good job.
This company in Slovenia has about eight UV
printers (about fi ve of them from Durst) and an
equal number of large solvent printers. They
originally used a GretagMacbeth color man-

Caldera also offers a highly regarded spectrophotometer

from Barbieri, the leading color management company in
Italy (they are headquartered in the same city as Durst,
the manufacturer of Rho UV-cured printers).

For further information on Caldera

contact Joseph MERGUI
mergui@caldera.fr
If you have questions about color management, if you are in the US you can
contact: ImageTech at:
www.ImageTechDigital.com
Mark Spandorf (owner and president),
mark@imagetechdigital.com
or 510 238-8905.
If you are in Europe or the rest of the
world you can contact BARBIERI directly
at: BARBIERI electronic snc,
info@BARBIERIelectronic.com
www.BARBIERIelectronic.com
Tel.: +39 0472 834 024
Fax: +39 0472 833 845

Textile
Introduction Series
Inkjet Textile Printers

How to Understand
which brand and model
are best for you.

(Factory & Demo Room visits)

Inkjet Textile
Printers

Especially 2005-2009

Textile printers
at Tradeshows
Textile printes at

Evaluations of Individual
Textile Printers

Dubai 2009

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Inkjet Textile
Printers

at ISA 09

VUTEk 3360

Solvent Printer &

Dye Sublimation in One

Copyright FLAAR 2007

12 Colors, Fast,

Wide-Format Print onto

Silk, Cotton, Polyester

Yuhan-Kimberly
Production Textile Printers

Direct printing
on Textiles

APRIL 2004

Direct Digital Printing

on Fabrics with

Wide Format Inkjets

DigiFab
StampaJet I-64

Wide-Format
Dye Sublimation

Printer for Textiles

Gandinnovations Jeti 3324

AquaJet RTR

Wide-Format Printer for

Textiles Silk, Cotton, Polyester

Custom Wallpaper
Digitally Printed

Yuhan-Kimberly
UJet MC3-Premium

Yuhan-Kimberly
UJET MC3 Express

Wide-Format Inkjet
Printer for Textiles
Yuhan-Kimberly
UJET MC2

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These are some of the most

Recent FLAAR Reports (2007-2009)

You can fi nd these and more reports at: www.wide-format-printers.NET
Introduction to UV Curable Inkjet Flatbed Printers

Comments on UV Inkjet Printers at Major Trade Shows 2007-2009

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These are some of the most

Recent FLAAR Reports (2007-2009)

You can fi nd these and more reports at: www.wide-format-printers.NET

UV Printers Manufactured in China, Korea and Taiwan

Most recent UV Printers

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