Industrial textile What’s behind digital printing technologies designed for fabrics
THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY GOES DIGITAL
Over the next few pages we’re going to show you in detail the operation of the main components of an industrial inkjet textile printer. In just a few minutes you will find out how they work: the system for winding a spool of jumbo-roll fabric, the feed belt, the inkjet print unit and the management system for dedicated textile inks. Not to mention the drying oven and the device for rewinding the fabric in line with the printer.
The blanket is adhesive and always on top During printing, the fabric is bathed in the ink which penetrates into the fibres, causing it to expand. For this reason, a good digital textile printer must be equipped with an adhesive blanket that can keep the fabric in position as it advances. The d.gen Artrix uses a blanket with self-cleaning synthetic resin by Habasit, a renowned manufacturer of quality screen printing blankets.
The fabric is ready in a flash! With the d.gen Artrix the printed material is dried before being rewound. It passes through a special in-line oven, ensuring that the ink doesn’t penetrate through to the back of the fabric. The motorised rewinder revolves at the same speed as the feeder unit and can manage the same amount of material (up to 2750 m with 65 g/m² fabric).
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