Page 44 - TEXtalks July-August 2021

44 45

Another is coated and uncoated paper. Coated paper Customer case for SPGPrints® ARROW® digital
usually is more expensive, we all know that. It sublimation printer and sublimation inks
absorbs the colors better and can more easily The market for one of the SPGPrints customers was
expanding to do all kinds of prints. ARROW® was the
release colors. From a cost perspective, a coated
Creating the optimal future- paper can decrease ink costs." solution for this customer. They felt that for their old
printer that they could not had support from their
proof printing process with He concluded, "ARROW® is an entry-level industrial local application experts.
printer without pinch rollers. The jumbo rolls are also
As soon as they got ARROW®, they noticed that we
possible. It has 16 KM heads in 4 rows of 4,
have a presence in all the different regions.
digital sublimation printing dual-channel. The configuration of colors is 4 or 8 Therefore, we were able to help them to optimize
colors. The heads do not need any negative pressure
their processes. One of the main things was the fact
system as many other industrial printers need. That
makes it a little more user-friendly and that we have local ink stock. They do not have to
order tonnes of ink every time because SPGPrints
maintenance-friendly from that point of view. sublimation inks stock is locally available in the
Digital Textile Printing experts from SPGPrints 500 sqm per hour. It is available in four and eight Therefore, it has a simple cleaning system, and very desired quantity.
organized a successful webinar on creating the colors includes florescent Magenta and Yellow. It has important that it has an open ink system. The
optimal future-proof printing process (with digital a very robust paper handling system that can easily The customer noticed long runs up to 20,000 M and
sublimation printing) on 6th July 2021. A large handle light paper. With ARROW®, we are targeting challenges that we see in making an optimal printer was satisfied with the output quality. They are printing
numbers of textile industry professionals worldwide customers that need a solid solution for the fashion process. There is a choice of paper, ink, machine, in general 150 lm/hr with two-pass mode. Their
attended the on-demand webinar. and sportswear market. All the above printers are color management, and RIP. There is also a choice of average ink consumption is 1.38ml/m2 with the
running on already well-known SPGPrints Inks. We ink such as runnability, reproducibility, compatibility, optimal print quality and less maintenance.
Denis Jahic, Sales Consultant Digital Textile develop and produce these inks in-house to achieve and Fluor or not."
introduced SPGPrints and Digital Textile. SPGPrints' great runnability, nice and brilliant colors helping the
Technical Specialist Digital Textiles, René Wolferink customers to be very attractive with their designs," he
presented tips and tricks on making the digital concluded.
printing process future-proof and more successful.
SPGPrints' Technical Specialist Digital Textiles, René
Denis Jahic, Sales Consultant Digital Textile said, "In Wolferink said, the name of this webinar is the
this webinar, we will explain how to overcome Optimal Future Proof printing process. From optimal
challenges in sublimation printing related to printer, you want to become easy to use, environmentally
ink, software, paper, color-matching. How to optimize friendly, efficient, and cost-effective."
your workflow for high-speed printing to get the same
production output all the time and what is needed to He added, "With small plotter machines, if one
manage operational costs. How all these aspects machine breakdown, you should have several
can help to be sustainable and at the same time stay machines which can do the same job. All these
very attractive for your customer. In the end, you have traditional systems usually have a closed ink system.
to create more business and generate more profit by The manufacturer always depends on the supplier of
entering a new market like e-commerce which is the the plotter. Closed ink system is less cost-effective
fastest growing business for the last two years." when compared with open ink systems. Changing
paper is also sometimes can be more of a hassle on
He added, "In the digital textile portfolio, we offer our those types of machines."
customers several solutions based on Archer
Technology from PIKE® - a single-pass printer with a He further said, "If you look at the industrial speed
production speed of 60 m/min reaching daily machines, they have much bigger printouts, the
production output of 70,000 meters with the highest single head doing eight colors or four colors. You
printing resolution. To his smaller brother JAVELIN® might have Kyocera heads in there in one or two roll
which is a scanning type of printer using the same configurations. Of course, those machines will have a
technology as PIKE® with 550 sqm/h and daily much higher print speed than the small volume plotters.
output of 5000 sqm." That is a more efficient way of printing with one operator
to drive such a machine with time efficiency."
"The new development for sublimation paper transfer
printing, we have our ARROW® that is an industrial "There are numerous paper choices for a weight
printer with high printing performance reaching nearly ranging from less than 20 grams to 150 grams.

July/August 2021