With a long history of serving the textile industry, Japanese manufacturer of dyeing, finishing and other textile machinery, Toshin Kogyo Co. Ltd., established in 1937, displayed its latest innovations in textiles printers, which included the Ichinose 2030 and 2030pro high speed digital printers along with Image proofer-2 inkjet printer and the 3320EX textile printing system.
Promoting speed in digital printing technology, the 2030 and the 2030pro high speed ink jet printers’ print at the speed of 160 m²/hr at 360 dpi resolution; the former has 16 heads and the latter 24 heads from Seiko. The 2030pro being an advanced version of the 2030 has the ability of recycling ink from the cleaning cycles, which significantly reduces the ink consumption. The dimensions of both are same and have Piezo electric heads that are effective with acid dyes, reactive dyes, disperse dyes and pigment inks. “Speed is becoming critical to the fashion industry and our endeavour is to give better speed machines with quality design reproduction,” says Tao Li, Director, Technical, Toshin Kogyo Co. Ltd.
The 3320EX textile printing system with 16 print heads prints at the speed of 80 m²/hr at 360 dpi and at 40 m²/hr at 720 dpi on 1 and 2 pass. The printer can also work with acid, Reactive and Disperse dyes along with pigment inks. The image proofer-2 inkjet printer has the capacity to handle any kind of production runs from sample to medium size. It has a total of 8 heads, i.e. 508 nozzles. “The most outstanding feature of all the textile printers is the Adhesive Print Blanket Technology (APB), which helps in gripping the fabric, making the printing of stretchable fabrics possible,” adds Sanjay Maheshwari, Director, Kothari Info-Tech Limited.
