For the Heimtextil show in January Epson has teamed up with four textile designers from its ‘Design for Living’ initiative to showcase the flexibility and potential of digital textile printing. Its stand will feature a customised design from one of these student designers implemented across multiple fabrics and homeware products.
Giovanni Pizzamiglio, head of pro-graphics sales, Epson Europe, said: “Choice and customisation is what the home textile industry wants today and Epson’s dye sublimation and direct-to- natural fabric printers are designed to meet this demand. The significant range of wool, linen, cotton, silk and polyester-based fabrics that can be printed, combined with the latest in Epson digital textile printing technology, means that it is now possible to reproduce high quality, vibrant and durable designs in any volume.”
In terms of kit, Epson will show the Monna Lisa digital production printer which is manufactured by Robustelli with Epson printheads, and using Genesta inks designed by Epson in cooperation with For.Tex. The printer comes in three widths - 180, 220 and 320 cm - and at the show the 160cm T16 model will be using eight-colour Genesta pigment inks to print onto natural fabrics for a variety of home textile applications.
Epson will also demonstrate the SureColor SC-F9200 64in dye-sublimation printer and desktop SureColor SC-F2000 direct-to-fabric printer.