At Fespa Digital 2016 Hollanders will show the ColorBooster DS, a double-sided 3.2m-wide textile printer.
“A 100% double-sided print is not common at all nowadays and we have succeeded in developing it,” said CEO Jacco Aartsen Tuijn. “Tested at four very different customer sites, on a range of polyester materials, we are not only opening the market for double-sided signage but also for double-sided home decoration and fashion.”
CTO Peter Hollanders added: “With dedicated ink amounts and profiling we succeed in having exactly the same colour on the front and back.”
According to Hollanders, high quality coloured wovens can be printed/fixed in one step as with double-sided soft signage. It said these high quality, double-sided coloured fabrics are now achievable at much lower production costs and will be therefore made available for a much wider consumer group, extending creative possibilities.
Considering eco-awareness is an upward trend in the industry, direct printing with water-based inks is Hollanders’ focus. The company also said that due to the printhead shower, which requires less purging, resources will minimized, and that energy savings are realised via built-in climate control.
The single sided ColorBooster 320, having all the environmental advantages of the ColorBooster DS, can be upgraded in the field. New at Fespa will be the possibility to upgrade to a stacked head configuration and a speed of 120m2/hr.
Supplied with customer changeable Ricoh Gen5 heads, the CB 320 will be delivered with water based direct (high energy) disperse dyes typically suitable for direct printing because of the high light fastness and production stability during fixation without bleeding or a halo.
With a maximum roll weight of 250kg Hollanders said the CB 320 is particularly suitable for overnight printing.
At Fespa Digital 2016 Hollanders will show the ColorBooster DS, a double-sided 3.2m-wide textile printer.