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Digital On-Demand Textile Production: All the Benefits of Offshoring…Onshore

Direct-to-garment or direct-to-fabric print systems require a single operator, generating a ready-to-ship imprinted piece or material within minutes.

By: Sharon Donovich

Director at Kornit Digital

For decades, major brands have offshored their manufacturing operations to low-cost, less-regulated developing nations to keep operational expenses low and support healthy profit margins. Air and sea freight could transport goods to all corners of the globe, a “reasonable” amount of waste was tolerated, and demand was predictable. But this mode of thinking is woefully outdated. Human ingenuity has wrought a digital marketplace that completely reconceptualizes the supply-and-demand paradigm...

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