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Moti Fabrics

moves to digital

production with

Mimaki Tiger-1800B

MkII Printers for

Faster, High-Quality Mimaki Europe, a leading manufacturer of inkjet products delivered within short deadlines. This
Example of a textile printed on one of the Tiger-1800B MkII printers operating at Moti Fabrics’ production facility in Faisalabad

printers and cutting systems, announces today that
change in our customers’ requirements urged us to
Pakistani textile company, Moti Fabrics, is leveraging
move to digital printing,” says Muhammad Asif, CEO
textile printing multiple Mimaki Tiger industrial textile printing units to at Moti Fabrics (Pvt) Ltd. “Our choice has already
proved sound as our brand-new Tiger-1800B MkII
take its business to the next level. As a result of on
the outstanding performance and process
printing systems have enabled us to cope with the
optimisation delivered by the Mimaki digital printing
high standards of the fashion industry in terms of
equipment, the company has been able to adapt to
been able to gradually enhance our production
changes in the textile industry and is now projected both quality and delivery times. In addition, we have
to reinforce its market position and expand its processes in a cost-effective way.”
capabilities in high-quality textile production.
The Tiger-1800B MkII is Mimaki’s flagship industrial
Headquartered in Faisalabad, Punjab province – the volume textile printer, available either in dye
second largest textile hub in Pakistan –, Moti Fabrics sublimation configuration for transfer printing or with
(Pvt) Ltd mainly serves the high fashion industry and reactive ink for direct-to-textile printing. Of the three
uses its cutting-edge technology to print about Mimaki Tiger-1800B MkII solutions operating at Moti
100,000 linear metres daily. Faced with recent Fabrics (Pvt) Ltd, two are equipped with reactive
challenges in the global textile market, management inks, enabling the company to directly print onto
at Moti Fabrics embarked on innovating the natural fibres such as cotton and linen, as well as
company’s business model, shifting from onto manufactured cellulose fibres, including rayon
conventional to digital printing. In doing so, the and nylon. The third Mimaki Tiger-1800B MkII
company invested in Mimaki’s advanced industrial features sublimation inks serves the ever-growing
textile technology and installed three Mimaki printed polyester market, allowing the company to
Muhammad Asif. CEO. Moti Fabrics (Pvt) Ltd. Muhammad Asif, standing in front of one of the company’s two Tiger-1800B MkII units. “We were – and still are – strategically diversify its product portfolio.
Tiger-1800B MkII direct-to-textile printers experiencing a massive transformation in the printing
segment, with brands demanding high quality “There are several features of the Tiger-1800B MkII

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