Digital Inkjet Textile Printing Systems
topic
Digital inkjet textile printers use piezoelectric print heads firing droplets of reactive, acid, disperse, or pigment ink at 2 to 40 picolitre volume onto pre-treated fabric at resolutions of 300 to 1200 dots per inch at print speeds of 15 to 200 linear metres per hour, enabling single-piece customised printing, photographic quality designs with unlimited colour complexity, and rapid sampling without screen costs.
Role
Enables design-on-demand and mass-customisation printing by eliminating screen preparation cost and minimum lot size constraints, with digital printing growth driven by fast fashion sample cycle compression, increasing demand for customised and short-run printing, and the economic advantage of digital printing for complex multi-colour photographic designs where screen-based printing costs increase with colour count while digital printing cost is independent of design complexity.