Ricoh is opening market access to Farbenpunkt’s new textile ink, PeractoJet. 

The collaboration enables OEM clients to compete in the digital textile market and enhance their environmental offerings. 

Reducing the environmental impact of global textile production caused by using dye-based, such as reactive inks in digital and analog processes, is the driver for this collaboration.

Traditional fabric dyeing and treatment accounts for 20% of worldwide wastewater. 

Meanwhile, the fashion industry generates 10% of annual global carbon emissions. 

Ricoh now provides a robust, environmentally responsible alternative approach for digital textile printers by pairing its broad printhead portfolio with Farbenpunkt’s unique Peracto Technology.

The optimized combination is ideal for apparel and home furnishing applications. 

It delivers more than 90% savings in fresh and wastewater use, as well as 50% savings in energy use. 

This delivers significant reductions in CO2 emissions. Also, no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are emitted.

The combination allows a simplified digital textile print production process which:

• Eliminates the need for high water and energy consuming stages of pre-treatment and post-treatment, saving up to €0.9 per sqm. These savings can equal twice the cost of the ink;
• Uses hot air fixation at a relatively low temperature of 140°C – 160°C;
• Delivers a quick fixation time of two to four minutes;
• Ensures consistent and reliable results on synthetic, natural, and mixed fibers;
• Meets or exceeds all industry specifications for strict colorfastness tests for washing, wet and dry rubbing, lightfastness, and aging.

The ink is also compliant with REACH, the European Union regulation for the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals. 

It also has an OEKO-TEX Eco-Passport, an independent certification for chemicals, colorants and accessories used in textile production.

"This collaboration builds on Ricoh’s longstanding history of innovative inkjet head development and allows us to support the production sector looking for ways to address growing questions around sustainability," said Graham Kennedy, director, Industrial Print, Ricoh Europe. " Digitally producing textiles with vastly reduced water waste and eliminating energy intensive pre and post-treatment stages delivers huge environmental benefits. This disruptive ink offering therefore enables more cost-effective production and allows manufacturers to consider establishing local production capabilities through reshoring. This is especially important now when we are seeing a growth in on-demand digital production spurred on by the impact of the pandemic on consumer habits and business operations."

Farbenpunkt’s Peracto Technology textile ink is available from Ricoh across EMEA now.