Industry News Kornit releases new machines at ITMA K


ornit Digital is showcasing the Kornit Apollo platform at ITMA 2023. The company is also introducing the Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS system for decorated apparel – now incorporating smart curing, fl exible pallet sizing, and autonomous calibration for the highest quality, consistency, and productivity.


According to Johnny Shell, Principal Analyst at Keypoint Intelligence, Kornit’s expanded ecosystem comes at the right time for the market: “These technologies offer a unique way forward for businesses to potentially expand into new markets and realistically adopt short-run, made-to- order apparel. More recent advancements such as Kornit Apollo are true engines of this transformation, empowering decorators to re-think how they’ll do business. These advancements will only continue to propel digital technology to the forefront of preferred apparel decoration methods.”


Enabling digital production to go mainstream, Apollo allows customers to become more agile, drive revenue opportunities, shift to localized production,


and ease complex workfl ow processes. It offers large-capacity and high- quality-driven players the opportunity to adopt digital versatility and a quick time to market – expanding beyond screen printing to achieve vertical or horizontal expansion and robust business opportunities based on current operational models.


The Apollo platform is built on fi eld- proven and industry leading Kornit MAX technology and is the most comprehensive, streamlined single-step solution for nearshore short- and medium- run apparel decoration. Empowering customers to sidestep the hazards of complex supply chains, it also offers unmatched speed and agility in digital decoration – designed from the ground up to decorate 400 unique garments per hour. Automated loading and unloading, integrated smart curing, and inline garment type adjustment yield higher output and reduced labour for optimised profi tability.


Epson launch Monna Lisa printer range E


pson unveiled its new Monna Lisa printers at ITMA 2023, demonstrating the latest Epson innovations for a constantly evolving digital textile market. “Epson is constantly focused on renewing and expanding its range of solutions for textile printing and offering its customers the opportunity to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding and competitive market seeking the experimentation of new approaches, from shorter processes to the use of new fi bres”, says Paolo Crespi, commercial director Epson Como Printing Technologies. “Thanks to our extended Monna Lisa series, we strongly want to highlight how the transition to increasingly sustainable textile production processes can be implemented through highly fl exible solutions”. The Monna Lisa ML-16000/HY is the ideal printer for companies that need to optimise the production of complex prints and offer the market more creativity. It can uniquely digitally create any type of the most


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sophisticated special effects for modern printed fabrics with gold, silver, and glossy tints, ranging from glossy lacquer through to gold and silver metal and opaque white. Monna Lisa ML-24000 - Flexibility and widest colour range in the series. Concept of fl exibility and effi ciency is raised to the next level thanks to the wide range of available colours, the reduction in the downtime required to change inks and the possibility of producing certifi ed printed fabrics without changing the type of inks in the machine. The fi rst to be equipped with 24 Epson PrecisionCore printheads and 12 colours, Monna Lisa ML-24000 can print on all types of fabrics from natural, artifi cial, and synthetic fabrics through to the most innovative vegetable fi bres. Monna Lisa ML-8000 REACID confi guration - The most fl exible solution to cover all fi bres. Monna Lisa ML-8000 is the fi rst printer in the series to be designed with the new REACID confi guration, which is an absolute


novelty in the Monna Lisa landscape and will soon be available on all other printers in the series. This new confi guration adds a wide selection of other materials and fi bres to the list of fabrics already supported by Monna Lisa printers, including non-traditional fi bres, and thus reinforces Monna Lisa’s ability to adapt to a wide range of printing requirements, providing greater fl exibility of use. The Monna Lisa ML-32000 combines Epson’s high-tech digital technology with unprecedented versatility. Its new width of 340cm allows two pieces of fabric to be printed at the same time, thus increasing productivity and reducing energy and resource consumption. The new printer’s width is particularly suitable for furnishing and home textile, allowing even faster printing of curtains, bedspreads, furniture and decorative accessories.


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The platform helps fulfi ller and brand supply chain managers gain ultimate visibility into their production – ensuring consistency and operational control across multiple systems and locations. This pairs with on-demand production strategies to continuously fulfi l orders of multiple sizes, strengthen supply chains, and shorten fulfi lment times. The solution fulfi ls the ultimate promise for brands to never run out of bestsellers and end backlogs of marked-down inventories. “The fashion and textile industry has remained at a crossroads – aware of its limitations but lacking a clear solution for moving from wasteful, ineffi cient production models,” said Ronen Samuel, chief executive offi cer at Kornit Digital. “Offering a true platform for agile, high- throughput digital production on demand, Apollo transforms what apparel producers and brands can do. It empowers them to meet the creative inspirations and ever-changing demands of a global community with capabilities to fulfi l those expectations, with quality, consistency, sustainability, and the necessary profi tability to scale no matter what unforeseen trends await.”


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