Kornit, worldwide supplier of industrial, direct to garment digital printers, has announced a new Water Based CMYK ink and version 201 Water Based white, which it claims are the most advanced direct to garment digital inks available.

What are they?

The DTG inks used in this style of machine are water based pigment type. They were specifically developed for this style of machine as the print head on the smaller machines was originally developed for dye based inks. The white ink is different from the CMYK as it is made from suspended Titanium Dioxide and is the most difficult to make.

Long established in the sublimation market, Nova Chrome UK is a distributor of Sublijet, Sawgrass' signature sublimation ink that is renowned for its quality and ease of use.

As a name synonymous with market leading plastisol inks, Wilflex is responding to the move towards phthalate-free and PVC-free inks by further expanding and developing its ranges.

Screen-printing, as a form of garment decoration, has been around for a long time, but as with most things, there are limits on what can be achieved usually from an economic point of view. For instance, when a client needs only 10 or 15 t-shirts and wants the print to be four colour process, the set-up cost is likely to make it prohibitively expensive.

Subli Nation is an official dealer of Sawgrass Artainium dye sublimation inks and the George Knight range of digital heat presses; and stocks a large range of dye sublimation blanks including the Unisub, Vapour Apparel and Subli soft ranges.

As distributors of Sawgrass ArTainium sublimation inks, TheMagicTouch says it offers clients a comprehensive insight as to the sales and marketing of image transfer.

Dye Sublimation is the easiest and probably one of the most versatile methods of digital printing but there are pitfalls and prospective customers should be aware of a few simple ground rules.

XP307 Nylo Flex was introduced this year as a new and easy to use cuttable material for application to 100% nylon products including jackets, bags and umbrellas. Manufactured with a mild sticky backing for easy weeding and application, 10 colours make up the range of 20- metre and 5-metre rolls.

With 27 years of experience as the UK’s number one digital transfer specialists, Xpres continues to introduce exciting new products to its advanced line of sublimation technology.

If you visited FESPA in Berlin this year you might think there would be no need for this piece, as there were halls of digital textile printing machines – but not really that much for the smaller garment printer, according to Mike Turner of the Digital and Screen Printing Association (DSPA).

Digital ink jet printers first came into the UK market about three years ago and, although quite well developed, their use was limited. Designed around an Epson engine, which in those days was the Epson 2100 or 2200 A3 printer, these single load machines only printed onto white textiles or, at best, very light colours.

Newcastle-based technology firm Kiss Cut Technologies has launched a new self-weeding inkjet textile transfer paper. One of the greatest drawbacks of existing and potential transfer papers has always been the so called ‘polymer window’ or ‘A4 effect’, says the company. This is essentially the excessive polymer left behind by the non-image area of a print. Many users have overcome part of this issue by hand cutting images or using a cutter plotter to weed the images digitally.

Kornit, a specialist in industrial, direct to garment digital printers, has announced new capabilities on its high-end digital printer range. Kornit claims it produced the first direct to garment digital machine and says it has been a well-known leader in this field since the end of 2004. It also claims to have the lowest ink cost per print in the industry.

Bordeaux Digital PrintInk, a manufacturer of premium digital inks for the large and grand format digital graphics industry, launched its environmentally friendly Eco Sublimation Ink for use on most fabrics at this year’s FESPA.

Xpres offers a number of solutions for digital textile personalisation, each combining low set-up and consumable costs with the ability to produce shorter runs of personalised clothing and gifts both quickly and profitably.

Global pioneer of digital image transfer TheMagicTouch is this month introducing a new A3 toner colour digital LED printer from Oki. The 8800 model with TMT firmware and TMT driver upgrades enables full compatibility with all transfer papers from TheMagicTouch.

Digital Printing has transformed our business. That is the bold statement from RA Smart, which says it is one of the few textile printers in the UK to have seen an increase in demand over the past few years. “The main reason for this is the fact that we embraced digital printing onto textiles at the very beginning and I can confidently look back and say it was the right decision to make,” says RA Smart’s Magnus Mighall.

As garment decorators look to expand their product lines, digital decorating systems are proving to be a perfect complement to existing core processes such as screen printing and embroidery. Digital printing solutions are providing incremental new sales opportunities that would not be practical or possible with traditional analog technologies.