Hollanders Printing Systems is dividing its digital textile printing product portfolio into single-side and double-sided systems.
While the company’s single-sided platforms are designed for sign-makers and display producers, there has been growing demand for its double-sided devices which increasingly appeal to specialist products of more industrial applications, including printed interior decoration and furnishings.
“The display sector is still a growing arena for Hollanders, but shorter lead times and more efficient routes from design to end product has led to an economic and logical desire to produce locally low volumes and samples for industrial textile applications,” said Jacco Aartsen Tuijn, CEO of Hollanders Printing Systems. “Developers and manufacturers of digital textile printers increasingly need to address the display, the décor and the fashion markets with machines that cater specifically for these segments. This sits in line with our decision to provide greater diversification across emerging substrates, ink advances and product potential.”
The company said that while there remains a steady increase in the popularity for single-sided manufacture of soft signs, flags, banners and interior and exterior displays, there has been a distinct change in business model for many industrial fabric specialists that want to take advantage double-sided high-end production to enable localisation through back-shoring and mass customisation via digital technology.
The Hollanders family of single-sided printers comprises its ColorBooster 250 2.5m machine, the 3.2m ColorBooster 320 and the ColorBooster XL, a heavy-duty 3.2m machine that bridges the gap between display and industrial production requirements. All are intended to work alongside the ColorFix 320 and the ColorWash 320 for optimum finishing quality.
The double-sided platforms are principally the ColorBooster DS 210 2.1m engine and the 3.2m ColorBooster DS 320 that output simultaneously on both sides of the fabric. These units incorporate an integrated fixation unit.
Options include print-head configuration, plus dust, climate and humidity control and an on-board cleaning system. Every platform offers the ability to be used direct-to-textile or via dye sublimation transfer printing, and feature built-in remote assistance.