Intech Digital, a Hong Kong company with 18 years of experience in digital printing, has developed a ‘ZERO-D’ fashion solution. Standing for Zero-Dye, Zero-Discharge, ZERO-D utilises unique water-based pigment technology and digital inkjet technology to show the world that ZERO-D is a beautiful, comfortable, and sustainable market-responsive colourant technology that the fashion industry has been looking for, according to Intech Digital.
The company says that users are able to design without limits with the ZERO-D solution. Colours are as vivid and vibrant as standard reactive dyes, but with such sharpness that even digital photographs can be printed direct to the PFD fabric with photo-quality beauty and quality, the company adds. The pigment printing solution can be used on a wide variety of natural fabrics such as cotton, linen, silk, Tencel, modal, rayon, viscose, blends and stretch etc. Intech Digital claims the substrate remains soft, breathable and natural and crocking is unmatched. ZERO-D also allows for no MOQ printing and ultrafast turnaround times, saving immensely on inventory management costs.
ZERO-D is Oeko-Tex ECO PASSPORT, REACH, RoHS, and ZDHC approved. Additionally, Intech is Innovation Partners with COTTON USA (https://cottonusa.org/innovation/zero-d-the-sustainable-answer-to-ai-fashion) and is already working with leading fabric mills in China and global brands, opening up the market to the power of going ‘Zero-Dye’.
Intech Digital is a solutions enterprise, offering key solutions to the textile printing industry, in two parts. Firstly, it has its own printing business, printing apparel and fabric on demand with its own ink and machines. It also has an Industry 4.0-ready micro-factory system’ with printing solutions for qualified brands or substantial wholesale/retailers, who require production in house, says Intech. And secondly, as discussed, the company has its own ‘ZERO-D’ textile inks and treatments.
