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The new opportunities of digital textile printing
Hi,
I was wondering what your take on digital textile printing is.
I had a sales rep come by the other day and show me a machine called Teleios, that prints on textile materials as beach flag, flags and so on.
I have a good amount of respect for this person so I listened to him and all that he had to say. It sounded like a pretty "new" and good market to look into, which at the moment we can’t dwell over.
But I’ still interested in hear what you all had to say about it?
Have you recently started working with digital printing?
Do you see large potential with it in you area?:police: Mod-Edit
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Simon, we expect the textile market to be the largest growth area.
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http://www.fespa.com/digital/index.php?
Why not visit Fespa at end of May in Hamburg? Im sure you will find all the info you need there.
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I’ll be there Earl! 🙂
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The use of Digital textile printers is not new… my last job at a printing firm i was using a digital textile printer, its was ok for one offs or very small print runs, but i’m not sure if its a huge growth area.
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I would have to agree with Andy on this, textile printing has been about for a long time so I can’t see a sudden huge increase in the amount of work that is available for it. Machine prices have probably dropped to a level where more people can afford to buy one which normally means prices drop as more people compete to do the same amount of work. I am sure there are opportunities available for anyone buying a machine if they want to get in to that market but I don’t think there will be a huge rise in demand.
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Isn’t this what’s called ‘Soft’ signage ?
All the catalogs say this is a growth area or is it just the machine manufactures trying to hype it up to achieve the sale of more machines ?
If you went down this route, you would also have the need to buy a stitching machine for producing beach flags etc
John
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Has anyone tried printing flag material on an ordinary wide format printer, such as a roland sp540 or similar? I would be interested to see the results.
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quote Simon Worrall:Has anyone tried printing flag material on an ordinary wide format printer, such as a roland sp540 or similar? I would be interested to see the results.I have and it doesn’t compare to dye sub. The blacks aren’t very good either.
I’d sub this work out if you want acceptable looking work.
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Simon, we have too – same results as Jason, colour not up to dyesub standard (lots of bleeding on some materials which you can offset with a heatgun as it prints…not too much heat though or you will set off the overheat trip)
We don’t bother any more – sub out to a few locals with dyesub machines or mostly send the files to contacts in China and have the finished garments/flags back in two weeks and half the price or less of local.
It is a big growth market…but not for us… under current market conditions China rules.
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