Epson today announced its first industrial direct-to-garment printer – the SureColor® F3070. Designed to provide low total cost of ownership (TCO) and reliability for exceptional performance and savings in high-production print shop environments, the SureColor F3070 is Epson’s first direct-to-garment printer to leverage dual printhead technology and a bulk ink pack system, providing remarkably low ink cost and minimized waste compared to Epson cartridge systems. It touts all new automatic garment height adjustment and easy user maintenance features to increase production and reduce downtime for garment print shops creating custom apparel. The new printer will be on display in Epson’s booth (#2049) at Impressions Expo in Long Beach, Calif. from Jan. 17-19, 2020.

Fisher Textiles, the leading supplier of fabrics for digital printing, has added five new apparel fabrics to its Digital Apparel lineup for dye sublimation printing. All styles are made in the USA and include a printable t-shirt, golf polo, light hoodie, fleece and a black poly/spandex blend for yoga pants and swimwear.

Epson has announced the launch of its new 64-inch, dye-sublimation printers, the SureColor SC-F9430 and SC-F9430H digital textile printers. The printers have been developed to deliver outstanding quality and high-volume printing, for sports apparels, fashion apparel, home decorations, outdoor signage as well as other printed merchandise.

Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, announced that GEAR for Sports, a division of Hanesbrands Inc., has installed a Kornit Avalanche Poly Pro system to supplement previously-implemented Kornit Digital direct-to-garment (DTG) print systems within the company’s Lenexa, Kansas production facility.

Well Happy New year to all. I hope you have made some new a great promises to yourself.

Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, today announced that Textil del Valle South America, a vertically integrated garment manufacturing company based in Peru, has chosen to implement Kornit’s digital direct-to-garment (DTG) printing technology at its 1.1 million-square-foot facility in Lima, Peru.

R A Smart have been involved in textile printing for almost five decades. During that time, we have witnessed the shift from traditional screen printing through to a new era of digital print technology.

For Sam Hill, everyday feels like Christmas since he achieved his boyhood dream this September of owning and running his own garage. But, this is no ordinary garage. Stradale Italia is a Ferrari and Maserati diagnostic, service and repair center, and Sam is there to give owners of these supercars the very best in personal service.

The Mosaica Group, a national distributor supporting dye sublimation and wide format print processes with equipment, consumables and services, announced a partnership with Skyline Exhibits, North America's leading brand of exhibit systems. The partnership enables Skyline to significantly increase their production by installing a high-speed Panthera S4-3.2m dye sublimation printing system, exclusively distributed by The Mosaica Group, in one of their state-of-the-art Design Centers, located in Eagan, Minnesota.

In the last eighteen months everything has come together very nicely for Pierre Pheiffer, the owner and managing Director at Xtreme Signs and Graphics. This Dublin-based digital wide format print provider has installed two new digital 3.2m production quality printers, and ditched his old preferred materials in favour of PONGS® Direct-Tex SoftImage Contrast Black Back textile.

Last I was at an industry tradeshow, lots of new stuff and great to meet industry leaders and fellow industry members. At night while sitting at the hotel bar, I overheard a hefty conversation about inkjet head technology. Yes, inkjet head technology is still a big discussion at tradeshows, specially at the hotel bar for some reason.

When espoused entrepreneurs Michał and Ania Laskowski set upon a new venture to create a textile business serving the Polish craft community, they had little experience in the business of textiles and printing but possessed vital expertise in ecommerce and an astute vision.

Textile solutions from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. are changing the way textile and apparel products are designed and produced, bring environmental sustainability to the industry in a big way. The EFI Reggiani ShanghaiTex tradeshow exhibit will feature sustainable solutions for direct-to-textile printing, denim dyeing and apparel design under the theme of Innovation in Green. The company’s 126 square metre exhibit showcases the future in innovation with EFI Reggiani superior-quality direct sublimation production along with EFI Mezzera DENIM technology, a highly sustainable breakthrough continuous indigo rope and warp dyeing and denim fabric finishing solution.

After a successful show at ITMA 2019, Colorjet India Ltd will be now exhibiting at Shanghaitex 2019 in China, which is an international trade show focused on future textile, fashion trends and innovations.

Sensient Imaging Technologies, the trusted partner for innovative digital inkjet technology, will promote its portfolio of digital inks and demonstrate its commitment to safer, more sustainable solutions for the textile industry, at stand W1A20 during ShanghaiTex 2019 (25th – 27th November, Shanghai). Visitors will be able to discover the environmental and performance benefits of ElvaJet® Coral - Sensient’s digital water-based sublimation ink for textiles - which will be showcased in China for the first time at the show.

Previously available in 3.20 metres, now also available in 5.05 metres - a white-front and black-blacked blockout material, paired with brilliant colours and print vibrancy.

For the 50th edition of Heimtextil (7-10 January 2020), the international trade fair for home and contract textiles will once again sparkle with the world’s largest product range for textile interiors and its unique presentation of the hottest trends. Around 3000 international exhibitors will present their innovations in Frankfurt.

After working for technology companies for the last 35+ years i decided to do it differently this time. I decided that sharing is better than keeping information to yourself. Specially in our printing industry and textile markets, knowledge is kept close to the heart. Just in case the competitor is looking, might steal my idea or whatever reasoning you would like to come up with.

Transforming the famed ballroom at Mayfair’s iconic Claridges hotel into an Italian Palazzo for a Greek couple’s wedding was a piece of cake for special events company Kudos AV.

Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, announced that OnPoint Manufacturing, an innovative leader in on-demand personalized apparel manufacturing, will be implementing Kornit Presto as a cornerstone of its manufacturing optimization efforts. The direct-to-fabric digital print system will be installed at the business’s Florence, Alabama facility.

“We’ve bought the right machine at the right time. You walk around retail and with every step you take all you see is fabric,” says Dan Pitts, Director at KGK Print Group. The machine he’s referring to is the company’s latest acquisition - an EFI VUTEk FabriVU 340 dye sublimation printer.