DuPont Artistri Brings Pigment Ink Innovations to Printing United

DuPont will highlight the color of things to come in digital printing during Printing United Expo from Oct. 18-20, 2023 in Atlanta, GA.

The DuPont team will display its Artistri digital inkjet inks offerings for textile, commercial, and packaging applications at its booth C553 including the Artistri P1600 direct-to-film (DTF) pigment ink set, recently launched at the ITMA Milan in Italy.

Artistri P1600 inks are ideal for DTF printers looking for a professionally printed product with consistent, vibrant colors on a variety of fabrics.

“Garment decorators will benefit from brightly printed fabrics while contributing to their brands’ sustainability goals as the Artistri P1600 were formulated using safer-by-design principles to assess and evaluate potential health and environmental risks,” said Robert Simpson, Americas business leader for DuPont Artistri Digital Inks.

“They are classified as non-hazardous under US GHS (Globally Harmonized System) and are made without intentional introductions of HAPS (hazardous air pollutants). All this is possible through our extensive ink formulation know-how, in combination with our best-in-class product stewardship and manufacturing to offer a compatible and reliable product that takes the quality of DTF printing to the next level.”

During the show, visitors will get to experience the print performance of Artistri Digital Inks through a collaboration with Cobraflex, which will have a DTF printer up and running at the Artistri booth throughout the event. On the direct-to garment (DTG) side, DuPont is partnering with ROQ and will join live demos at their booth (C747) exploring the ROQ NOW.

ROQ will be printing live during the show using Artistri water-based DTG pigment inks combined with Artistri pretreatment and color-protect chemistries.

Sustainability is core to DuPont’s innovation strategy and at the booth the DuPont team will display beautiful design samples on sustainable printed fabrics from Greentex and Artistri water-based pigment inks. The company supplies fabrics produced with polyester PCR (post-consumption resin), a result of the collection and recycling of PET bottles, that were printed later with Artistri® water-based pigment inks.

“This combination delivers a lower environmental footprint as the pigment printing process uses less energy and less water compared to other types of digital textile inks,” explained Gabriela Kim, global marketing manager for Artistri Digital Inks.

“We are committed to develop ink innovations that support sustainability in textile printing. Since our pigment inks are granted the OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certification, with ZDHC MRSL Conformance Level 3, as well as the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certification, it helps enable safer work environments for textile printers,” Kim added. “DuPont’s new ink developments strengthen our commitment to pigment inks as the sustainable choice and as our vision for the future of textile digital printing.”

For the commercial and packaging segments, DuPont Artistri digital ink technologies cover a wide range of applications: from book printing, general commercial, corrugated, and other packaging applications. Delivering brilliant and durable image quality while enabling consistent jetting reliability, DuPont will display multiple ink options to address specific application needs.