The Digital Printing Will Be Next Popular In Textile Industry

With the rapid development of science and technology, in the textile printing, digital printing technology has become mature, digital printing production has also increased significantly. Although there are still many problems still have to be solved, but many people still believe that digital printing instead of the traditional textile printing is a matter of time.

Why sublimation printing will be next popular in textile industry? The reasons are as follows:

1, To meet the clean production needs
Traditional textile printing, the use of the screen will be a color followed by an overlay up, the more the color will need more screen, the relative operation is also more complex; but even if there are multiple screen, see the printing pattern is still quite Monotonous, can not see the color gradient, high-resolution landscape images and the true color of the characters. In addition to the complexity of printing technology and printing effects, the printing production process lengthy, from production to sales will be more than four months, of which the production of the screen will take 1 to 2 months time, the production process must be spent More manpower, time and energy, after the production of screen and equipment cleaning also need to consume a lot of water resources, screen version does not continue to use to become waste, such a production of environmental impact on the environment is very large, do not clean Production requirements.

Digital printing technology broke through the bottleneck of textile printing, by image processing software, jet printing machine, inkjet ink and jet printing substrate combination of digital storage can be a real image or pattern directly printed on the fabric, with Pattern design and the diversity of color changes, is widely used in fashion design and fashion apparel industry. Especially for a small variety of customization and customization of the production process, significantly reduce the screen operating costs 50% and 60% of the time, but also significantly shorten the overall production schedule, rapid response to customer needs. At the same time reduce the printing process due to screen cleaning caused by waste water output, provincial waste 80%, in line with the needs of clean production, digital textile printing technology to make dyeing and finishing industry more technology, more environmentally friendly, faster More diversified.

2, Digital printing technology widely used internationally
China's development space is huge
Now digital printing products in Italy has accounted for more than 30% of its total domestic printing volume, digital printing growth rate lies in the industrial structure and cost, Italy is based on printing design-oriented fashion market, the world's high-end printed textiles mostly from Italy The The same time as the above-
And the cost of printing production in Italy, the production of 400 meters of small quantities of products per square meter cost of nearly two euros, while the same batch of products in Turkey and China production costs are less than 1 euro; if the small batch production of 800 ~ 1200 meters, Each square meters is also nearly 1 euro, so that the cost difference makes digital printing into the mainstream, so digital printing is in line with its market demand.

In addition, in the case of cost structures, traditional printing is required to be produced in small batch production, which makes the initial cost of traditional printing relatively high, but the cost of mass production is relatively low as the cost of printing increases. For digital printing, the main cost comes from the nozzle and ink, regardless of large or small batch production costs are similar, as long as the printing fast enough, the management cost will be relatively low, which is equipment manufacturers to high-speed machine development concept.

According to statistics, the world's traditional printing is mainly concentrated in the Asian region, including China, Southeast Asia and India, accounting for 66% of the total printing volume. China in the traditional printing accounted for nearly 30% of global production, but digital printing is less than 1% of domestic printing volume, huge growth space.

3, Digital printing: nozzle, ink is very important
If the nozzle is a digital jet printing engine, and ink is the digital jet fuel, there is no fuel even a good equipment system can not start. Ink quality is good, the relative loss of the nozzle will be reduced, the nozzle life will naturally increase; ink quality is not good, not only will hurt the nozzle, and even affect the print shut down.
Ink composition contains colorants, moisturizers, surfactants, fungicides and other additives, color is the key to the success of printing color, with a good pigment, ink quality on the success of half.

4,Digital printing should pay attention to the concept of technological change
Digital printing is an integrated technology that requires nozzle and inkjet equipment, ink, printing software and fabric before and after treatment with each other. For the nozzle and printing equipment, the current stage of the industrial nozzle warranty period is generally six months to a year, the printing industry, the drive engine (nozzle) is the consumable, the cost is considerable, and the use of multiple nozzle design equipment There is a risk, in case there is a nozzle in a nozzle in the printing process problems will cause losses, in addition to industrial nozzle manufacturers are now from the equipment manufacturers and ink manufacturers to take the nozzle warranty costs, which also increased the ink Cost of supplies.

Second, for ink manufacturers, because the new nozzle has been introduced and in line with the application of different fabrics, must be developed for all kinds of spray nozzles and a variety of fabric-specific ink, but today's ink pigment mostly from the existing traditional color materials , It may not be able to meet the needs; In addition, the product must also consider the diversity and color, for the end user is more complex and difficult.
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The third is the software, the current software for most of the end users, the high cost, and in different printing equipment, ink and fabric are required to re-create the color curve, more complex than the traditional printing.

Finally, the fabric processing, digital printing is different from the general paper on the printing, the need for fabric before and after the fabric in order to make the fabric color, although the fabric before and after treatment on the traditional printing plant is no stranger, but the digital printing is the key, The customer needs to print the goods to show its value. If there is a problem in the pre-treatment and steaming session will come to naught.

Traditional printing companies are not familiar with digital printing technology, and by the traditional digital operators have to change the thinking, including the mode of operation and environmental control and so on. In addition to equipment, ink, software and fabric processing, the most important key is to have familiar with the control equipment and familiar with the work before and after the talent. Digital printing began in the market only 15 years, really can be industrialized this is 2 to 3 years, how to cultivate familiar with the printing and printing technology personnel is the most critical, only more and more personnel training and investment, The industry will have the opportunity to flourish, but it takes a long time to reach it. Digital printing is a number of new technology integration technology, most of the printing manufacturers are not familiar with the equipment, so most of the current stage is still equipment manufacturers to integrate the business, but equipment manufacturers want to include equipment, software and ink package Way, which is the printing plant do not want to see, but also limit the development of digital printing, so that the concept of differences and technical limitations caused by digital printing can not flourish the bottleneck.

5, Digital printing future development prospects
Today's textile printing, the rapid changes in popular elements, need more design, order code number is shorter and shorter, more and more complex design, fastness requirements higher, environmental awareness, color variation tolerance and fabric specifications requirements strict. To this end, digital printing to meet the relevant needs of the future will have more nozzles and equipment manufacturers, ink manufacturers, software vendors and printing manufacturers to invest funds.

The reliability and durability of the nozzle is the focus of the development of the nozzle manufacturers, because the nozzle is not more than a year average, which for printing, the production cost is very high, so the new nozzle design addition to the number of holes, Inward circulation and maintenance direction design, hoping to extend the use of the nozzle cycle.

Equipment manufacturers will also be from the stability of the equipment and easy to operate on the equipment, the form of equipment bundled ink will be broken, the equipment integrator will continue to provide equipment and maintenance services in the future direction. In addition to the continued development of more types of ink products, ink manufacturers need to improve the color and the application of a variety of different fabric ink product development, the cost of ink will be due to market growth and gradually reduced.




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