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Insight8 Jul 2015Kyocera dominates the market for print heads to be incorporated in high-speed digital textile printing machines. So when Shin Ishikura, of Kyocera FineCeramics GmbH, gave an overview of the complete series of Kyocera KJ4 series of print heads at the recent IMI Europe InkJet Technology Showcase, held in Munich in June, it was worth taking note.
Technical12 Jun 2015The selection of digital textile-printing systems by any textile printer is a long and complex process that requires many detailed discussions between the printer and the machinery supplier. These will encompass everything from pretreatment of the textile, to digital printer performance, overall reliability, print-head life and, of course, detailed cost comparisons between digital and analogue screen production as they apply to that specific textile-printing factory.
Insight24 Feb 2015As we all know, the major part of textile printing industry has moved to Asia in the last 20 years, with China in particular now producing the largest proportion of all textile prints (currently 30 % of the total world production).
Technical6 Jan 2014In conventional textile screenprinting the use of pigments is the major coloration method, with over 50% of the world textile-printing market using this method. In terms of volume, this represents around 15 billion square metres a year.
