Digital textile printing specialist Kornit Digital has unveiled what it claims is a breakthrough innovation for sports and athleisure garments with a new process for industrial polyester printing that prevents dye migration.
Polyester is the second largest category in the overall T-shirt market, it is key in the sport segment, and is growing in the athleisure and functional apparel segments. However, polyester is currently printed predominantly by analogue solutions, which creates major technological, cost and sustainability challenges.
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The new Kornit NeoPoly Technology addresses these challenges with a new process and ink set implemented in its eco-friendly direct-to-garment NeoPigment printing process. The process, Kornit says, prevents dye migration on polyester without compromising on design, run size, substrate or labour.
Both the ink set and the physical and chemical process have been specifically developed for low temperature curing, and polyester enhancing functionalities developed to maintain fabric characteristics and provide superior fastness – a process that prevents dye migration on polyester. The inks are Oeko-Tex and Eco-Passport certified and do not contain PVCs or other toxic ingredients, the company says.
The first system equipped with the Kornit NeoPoly Technology is the new Kornit Avalanche Poly Pro, for easy and cost-effective short-runs and on-demand printing on polyester garments.
“Kornit is on a mission to reinvent the garment and textile printing industry with game-changing technologies for growing market segments,” says Omer Kulka, Kornit’s VP of marketing and product strategy.
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