Textile Producers See Innovations in Digital Textile at EFI Reggiani Open House

During a three-day Electronics For Imaging, Inc. open house this month at the company’s EFI Reggiani industrial textile printer facility, textile and apparel manufacturers witnessed innovations that provide users with promising new opportunities.

The December open house, which drew more than 70 attendees from over 23 different European, South American, and Middle Eastern countries, featured informative sessions with product experts on a diverse range of topics, covering new and trending market ap-plications for textile manufacturers.

“This was a special anniversary year for Reggiani, one where we not only looked back at our legacy, but also looked forward to the stronger, sustainable future we are helping our customers create in the textile space,” said Adele Genoni, EFI Reggiani SVP and GM. “With so many new products launched in 2021, we were excited to finally be able to have our customers here to see our machines in action.”

This year, EFI Reggiani celebrated 75 years of heritage and innovation in the textile world by accelerating its commitment to delivering new cutting-edge technologies. The portfolio of EFI Reggiani printers – including an innovative range of greener, pigment ink-based systems that can significantly reduce textile manufacturing’s ecological footprint – give us-ers fast and complete solutions across a broad range of textile applications.

Attendees witnessed live demonstrations of eight advanced digital printers during the open house, including the new EFI Reggiani HYPER, EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver scan-ning/multi-pass printer, and EFI Reggiani BLAZE as well as the EFI Reggiani BOLT – the award-winning single-pass offering that is the world’s fastest digital textile printer.

The new EFI Reggiani HYPER is a scanning printer available in 1.8-metre, 2.4-metre or 3.4-meter widths. The Reggiani HYPER model targets the industrial high-speed segment of the multi-pass textile printing sector. Not only is it the fastest multi-pass printer that EFI Reggiani has ever developed, but the fastest of its kind in the market, offering ex-traordi-nary printing quality with unmatched productivity.

With an up to eight-color configuration, it prints at speeds up to 13 linear meters per mi-nute in two-pass production mode. The new printer is suitable for high-quality production on knitted or woven fabrics and is designed with smart technology that enables it to be in-tegrated into Industry 4.0 projects.
 
The new-version TERRA Silver printer featured at the open house is part of EFI’s com-plete TERRA line-up of pigment ink printer solutions. It allows print service providers to enter the world of industrial textile with a short, smart and green production process. The printer is a 1.8-meter-wide printer that can print up to 190 square meters per hour with eight dual-channel printheads.

EFI Reggiani also is a leading developer of inks, and one of the only industry suppliers with a complete range that includes all primary textile ink types. The TERRA pigment inks the company makes for the new TERRA Silver printer model deliver excellent wet and dry fastness properties and remarkable sharpness in detail.

Designed to leverage EFI Reggiani digital printers’ market-proven industrial performance capabilities, these eco-friendly, water-based inks provide an extraordinary level of print durability and yield longer printhead life with reduced maintenance costs. The high-performance digital pigment inks also use an innovative binder technology for fast, sus-tainable, and cost-competitive industrial textile printing on the widest range of fabrics. Users also gain superior print definition and color intensity.

The EFI Reggiani BLAZE printer is designed to give textile companies the opportunity to enter the digital textile printing market with a compact solution. The new, 1.8-meter-wide printer offers an innovative, low-maintenance, continuous recirculation ink system equipped with a level sensor and degassing as well as a print head crash protective sys-tem for longer printhead life and superior uptime.

Thanks to its cutting-edge printhead reliability and low maintenance costs for a competitive total cost of ownership, the BLAZE printer can produce up to 125 linear meters per hour with a printing resolution up to 600×1200 dots per inch (dpi).

In 2021, the EFI Reggiani BOLT received a combination of hardware and software enhancements that minimize artifacts, compensating for missing nozzles that may occur over time and enhancing uniformity to deliver smoother solid colors. The upgrade also delivers improved quality and smoother gradients, plus it enables faster printhead re-placement and drastically increases file processing speed by up to 200% for large, com-plex files.