3. Global Textile Printing Market
ApparelApparel
IndustrialIndustrial
InteriorInterior
TextileTextile
38%38%
8%8%
54%54%
>30 billion m
ApparelApparel
IndustrialIndustrial
InteriorInterior
TextileTextile
38%38%
8%8%
54%54%
>30 billion m2 printed per year
4. Textile Printing
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Printed
Textile
DTF
DTG
= Digital Penetration
Direct To Fabric
• Roll To Roll
• Printing before Cut
&Sew
• Flat and Rotary
Screen
Direct To Garment
• Printing after Cut &Sew
• Flat Screen Printing
6. • Heimtextil – Frankfurt
• Imprinted Sportswear Show - Long Beach, CA – Direct To
Garment Printing
• DomoTex – Hannover - Carpeting and flooring printing
• Texworld – NYC – Brands and Designers meet Suppliers
• Current News
• Businessweek
• Hemisphere Magazine
2015 – Great Start
Everyone is talking about Digital Textile Printing (DTP)
7. “Despite its many production advantages and the substantial
savings to be made in water, energy and raw materials, digital
printing still has a hill to climb before seriously challenging the
established rotary and flat screen processes for textiles.
Nevertheless, it’s gaining ground all the time”. John Provost
“The technology requires fewer resources and enables faster
production cycles,” she said, “and textile designers can also
experiment more creatively and flexibly with high-quality forms
and models. In addition, purchasers of home and household
textiles have the possibility to respond more quickly and more
individually to today’s consumer requirements.” - Heimtextil
Director Ulrike Wechsung.
Heimtextil 2015 Comments
8. Hemispheres Magazine Jan 2015
Bob Bland, a former Tommy Hilfiger and
Ralph Lauren designer, has just
launched Manufacture New York, a
160,000-square-foot complex in the
Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn
• Self-customization promises to be a big
part of what Manufacture New York
provides
Current News
“You can be online anywhere in the world, design a piece, order and have this
automated process produce a garment in half an hour,” Bland says
“Customers can scan
themselves on a device like
a Kinect [the Xbox motion
sensor]. Then we take the
measurements.”
9. BusinessWeek – Jan 2015
• Perfecting The Science of
the Shirt
• Burberry
• L.L. Bean
• Eddie Bauer
• H&M,
• Zara
More designs, shorter runs,
faster delivery
Current News
10. • Textile World Magazine – Jan-Feb 2015
• Vapor Apparel To Open Cut-And-Sew Facility
• North Charleston, S.C. based Vapor Apparel has announced it will
open a 300,000-square-foot cut-and-sew facility in Union, S.C.
The company manufactures performance apparel and offers
sublimation print-on-demand services
Current News
11. • Printing is a huge industry that is dominated by analog processes
• Digital printing is growing at high rates
• Cost-To-Print And Profitability Gaps are closing
• World production of printed textiles amounted to around
31 billion square meters in 2014, Provost said, and of this
production, around 65% were rotary screen printed fabrics and
25% flat screen. With a variety of other different processes carried
out, digital printing had just an estimated 2% share of the
overall market, amounting to around 600 million square
meters
Industrial Printing Transformation
11
12. • What drives digital printing?
• Variable Data
• Sampling
• Short runs – short lead times
• Customization
• What limits digital penetration?
• Expertise
• Digital Work Flows, Color management, spot vs. process color
• Equipment availability for production printing speeds
• Cost to print versus analog
All printing should be Digital!
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Guttenberg Press ~1439 AD
13. • Inkjet technology has advanced, but
• 4-6 year cycles for Piezo Inkjet
• (Moore’s law for information technology is doubling every 1.5 years)
• Software, color management and digital workflows are
now understood and working
• Training and knowledge improvements
• Production level printers have arrived…
Inkjet Technology Progression
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19. • It has been a challenge to get formulations to jet
well with good characteristics on the substrates
• Inkjet ink formulations now meet the challenges:
• Jetting reliability
• Color Consistency
• End Use Characteristics
• Formulations have been optimized
• Inkjet ink costs are high compared to screen
• High Purity requirements
• Shelf Life
• Coverage
Ink Technology
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Cyan
Light Cyan
Magenta
Light Magenta
Black
Gray
Yellow
Orange
Blue
Red
21. Traditional vs. Digital Textile Printing
Acid Dye
10%
Reactive Dye
28%
Pigment
2%
DS Transfer
52%
DS Direct
8%
Digital Textile Printing
Acid Dye
3%
Reactive Dye
26%
Pigment
51%
DS Transfer
5%
DS Direct
15%
Traditional Textile Printing
24. • Cost Of Printing (COP) is limiting expansion of digital printing into
conventional analog printing markets
• Cost Of Printing
• Printer, Labor, Media, Ink, Facility, Energy, etc.
• Ink is most of the COP
• Colorant is a small proportion of inkjet ink
• i.e., textile pigment ink has 4%-7% colorant
• Inkjet Ink is manufactured in large batches
• Shelf life 6-24 months
• Inventory and shipping costs are high
Present Situation
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32. Profitably Gap
32
Screen
The gap between the low volumes of digital and the
high volumes of rotary screen printing shows the
economic potential
Digital
Opportunity
34. RC1536
Performance SPT RC1536
RC1536
Print width 108.3mm
number of nozzles 1536
Resolution 360
Grayscale 8 levels
Drop Volume 17-100pl
Dot Frequency 10.4kHz (7drop)
Productivity/nozzle [kHz*pl] 1040
Productivity/head [ml/min] 95.8
number of heads/Bar*1
7
Max Discharge/Bar*2
[g/2
@25m/min]
48.8
(360dpi*634dpi)
*1: 1Bar=700mm
*2: Specific gravity=1.38
35. Konica Minolta's next-generation flagship model,
“KM1800i,” is a newly-developed high-performance
multi-nozzle inkjet printhead furnished with 1776
nozzles and capable of a print width of 75 mm. The
product features include an independent drive method
that enables simultaneous jetting from all nozzles, 1776
nozzles with a high density of 600 npi and is ideal for
commercial printing applications that require high-
speed printing with the high image quality realized by
the single-pass method.
Major Features
Multi-nozzle structure with 1776 nozzles and a
600 npi high-density printhead
All-nozzle independent drive system,
maximum drive frequency: 84 kHz
Stable discharge performance that realizes
high image quality during high-speed printing
Grey scale performance with a maximum of 8
gradations
3.5 pl small droplets, UV-ink compatible
Next-generation Inkjet Printhead
“KM1800i”
41. Key benefits:
Improves initial priming
Enables fast jet recovery
Prevents settling of heavily pigmented inks
Improves open time of fast drying inks
Uniform Temperature Control
Continuous Circulation
4
Continuous Ink Flow
44. Mutoh 1638WXMutoh RJ-900X
MS LaRIO
Reggiani ReNOIR
Standard Mid-Range High Speed Extreme Speed
Mimaki JV-33 Mimaki TX-500 MS JP-6
Printing Equipment
45. ArioJet
• Direct To Garment
• Production Digital
Printing
• Replaces a screen-print
station
46. Paradigm Production Digital DTG
• Direct To Garment
• Production Digital
Printing
• Replaces a screen-print
station
47. • Now, with the introduction of single pass machines, digital printing
is capable of operating at speeds faster than rotary printers.
• MS in Italy has already introduced the LaRio single pass
machine
• Kyocera Printheads
Single Pass Digital Printers
35 - 75 liners meters per minute
63 sqm per minute
3500 sqm per hour
Rotary Screen Speeds
48. • SPG Prints announced Pike, a new single pass digital textile print
• 75 meters per minute
• Samba printheads on the system are configured in a single-pass
array called Archer
• throw distance
• nozzle redundancy
• Targeted at rotary screen printers printing between 3 million and
up to 10 million meters annually.
• Ink Consumption: 65k liters to 210k liters
50. Opportunities from Growth Barriers
• Printers (of course)
• Auxiliary Equipment
• Dryers
• Calendars
• Steamers
• Washers
• Environment Controls
• Capital Equipment Financing
• Color Management
• Workflow Optimization
• Web To Print
• Technician Training
• Operator Training
• Ink Production and Supply Chain
$
51. Grow Industrial Digital Printing
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Textile
Graphics
Packaging
Product
Decoration
Tiles Additive
Manufa
cturing
Digital Textile
• Production Solutions
are INKJET
• Highest Ink Volume
• All aqueous
• Green Technology
Dry toner
Liquid Toner
Offset Lithography
Flexographic
Hybrid
Gravure
Screenprint
• Laser
• Inkjet
• Inkjet
• Laser
• Inkjet
• Inkjet
52. Thank You
The Technology Partnership ‘TTP’
Melbourn, Herts. SG8 6EE. UK
Mike Raymond
Technical Sales – Business Development
ttpmeteor, Philadelphia Office, USA
Mike.Raymond@ttpmeteor.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=FxuXP0BRBxM
Notes de l'éditeur
It’s a great time to be in the digital printing industry.
Everything that can go digital will and we at the start of a major transformation to digital printing.
Printing is a huge industry. Print is everywhere. The proportion digitally printed products in the world is small compared to convectional analog processes.
In the three top large markets Graphics, Textiles and Packaging, less than 2% of the output is printed digitally.
It’s a great time to be in the digital printing industry.
Everything that can go digital will and we at the start of a major transformation to digital printing.
Printing is a huge industry. Print is everywhere. The proportion digitally printed products in the world is small compared to convectional analog processes.
In the three top large markets Graphics, Textiles and Packaging, less than 2% of the output is printed digitally.
Digital has always made economic sense where variable data, short runs or customization is required. But really has not entered the mainstream.
The barriers to digital printing are coming down.
That is Guttenberg's assistant telling him that all printing will be digital some day
Digital printing and inkjet technology. Well it's not Rocket Science…Its harder
It has taken decadesfor printhead technology to develop
Shared wall technology like Xaar, Seiko, Ttec, Konica was started in the late 80’s and early 90’s
Dimatix carbon b;ock techniques was developed in mid-90’s
Ricoh and Trident pusher technologies started development in the mid 80’s
I was developing new printhead technology and told my boss 18-24 months for development
AND another 18-24 months for our OEM’s to develop their products
What… that means 4-6 years before significant revenue flow
The Moore’s law for piezo inkjet printhead technology is a doubling every 4-5 years.
--DRUPA is every 4 years
--ITMA is every 4 years
Printers are now available that meet real production speeds. The last ITMA show introduced printers at this high end and the technology has progressed rapidly since. We are hearing that some of these companies have reached capacity and are extending delivery times
I was at a customer in Mexico recently that just installed a Renoir from Reggiani. They are planning on installing 4-5 more this year. This will bring their digital capacity to about ½ million meters per month. That would be about 25% of their present printed output. And they want to eventually eliminate all screen printing operations and go 100% digital.
But what about inkjet ink technology?
Digital ink itself has the same colorants used in conventional printing. Formulators adopted the analog ink formulations and modified for jetting reliability. The difficulty is formulated to perform reliably in the printhead and the substrate
All the components that make up an ink formulation are commodities. AND textile inks are more than 50% water.
Ink companies are increasing production capacity and depend on increasing volumes to get cost and prices down.
AATCC =
There is always a business decision whether to print a job via screen or digital and it comes to the cost to print. When all the factors are added up the ink is the primary cost driver for digital. For screen printing, setup costs are large but ink costs are lower.
The proportion of colorant in inkjet inks is less than what can be put into screen ink. This is primarily due to the low viscosity requirements for reliable jetting.
Inkjet ink is manufactured in large batches in centralized locations and shipped to distributors or end users.
formulation components are mixed chemical reactions are occurring and the ink is slowly changing its characteristics.
Temperature variations during shipping and storage can affect the quality of ink.
Fresh ink performs best
This is typical curve for digital printing versus conventional
There will always be a gap in the ink cost because of colorant content and purity requirements
Similar curves for all printing markets
For shorter runs, below 1500 meters, digital is economical
The question always is: how big is the market for these short runs?
Stork data validating the previous curve
Notice ink coverage 70g/sqm for dye and 100gram/sqm for pigment is about 30% less than what is required for inkjet
Higher viscosity and latitude allow more colorant in screen inks
When I started in the digital textile printing market in 2000, crossover was about 1000 meters.
Each year the market reports would come out and say digital textile printing is less than 2% and will reach 10% penetration in the next 5 years.
Last year the reports said the same thing. And the crossover point had not changed very much. Although the industry is still enjoying 15-20% growth rates as it moved into short run and customizations.
Economic run lengths for Digital Textile Printing must get higher to penetrate into high volume production.
The printed textile market is getting close to 30B square meters per year. This varies with fashion and design cycles but generally grow 2-3% per year
Each 1/10 of a percent penetration into the textiles in ½ million liters of inkjet ink
Digital textile ink is presently greater thas $300 million.
The market for Digital Textile Inks exceeds $1B with only 6%-7% penetration
We discussed how digital textile cost will not be as low as screen inks
We can close the profitability gap greatly increase digital penetration
If we bring economical run lengths where print is needed the available ink market grows by an order of magnitude