ITMA 2023 Milan Italy, June 8-14th, released 3 main print heads. The release means it’s time for us to pay attention. Ricoh TH6130F; Epson D3000; Kyocera Forearth.
The exhibition ITMA started in 1951, was Sponsored by the European Council of Textile Machinery Manufacturers (CEMATEX), held every four years. Every time there are cutting-edge technologies and exhibits that represent the direction of technological development.
ITMA 2023
A new print head normally needs about 1-3 years to reach maturity. So, the release does not mean success. But still, the release means, it’s time for us to pay attention to it and wait for maturity.
As of today, there are three types of print heads, Ricoh TH6130F; Epson D3000; and Kyocera Forearth, and we will see them being used in the industry day by day.
DTG printer ink, also named direct to garment ink, which is a kind of water-based pigment ink for the digital textile printers, and direct print on finished T-shirts.
Mostly, DTG inks are works on cotton textiles. When it prints on light/white/blank cloth, the printer only use KCMY, etc. colors. If it prints on dark/black color cloth, we have to print a layer of white first, and then print color picture, the printer will includes a white color.
With the development of technology, the DTG ink will prints on other textile types, like polyester, or polyester and cotton mix fabric. And it will goes to a rolling machine, for industrial-scale printing, pre-coating the fabric by an industrial-scale factory.
This DTG printer ink is suitable for which print heads?
Ricoh G5
Ricoh G6
etc.
Which colors does this DTG printer ink have?
Black
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
There is pre-coating liquid in 1:10, and in 1:20, or other customized proportions. And the clean liquid is available.
This DTG ink’s main features are:
Color resistance can reach 4.5 levels,
With our own pre-coating, the printed garment can offer a very bright color and soft and smooth texture, as good as reactive printing.
Very fluent printing,
high concentrate, delivers vivid colors and a wide color gamut.
Applicable materials for DTG printer ink.
Pure cotton,
Fabric with more than 70% cotton,
Linen.
DTG printing working processes are:
1). Pre-coating the cotton garment,
2). Dry the garment,
3). Put the garment on the flatbed of the printer, fix it, and print,
4). Dry the printed garment,
5). We get a printed garment.
How is the Chinese market’s DTG printers situation?
Application of DTG ink on roll to roll machine
More than 10 years ago, there was Epson water-based print head DTG printers, the suppliers modified for Epson desktop printers like R1390, T50, T60 4880 9880 etc. They just do small modifications, and suppliers’ technology is weak, the printing is not stable, and the printers’ performance experience is very bad.
In the second stage, in about the year 2010, while Chinese printer companies on the ability to make good quality printers. There are totally new made DTG printers, with stable quality. But the color resistance of DTG ink is weak, at about 3-4 levels. To strengthen the color resistance, they add complicated pre-coating and after the coating processes. While the non-programmed manual operation coating process, the quality of color resistance is still not stable.
In the third stage, after the year 2020, after the DTF boomed up. There is one raw material, which works both on DTF ink and DTG ink and brings better adhesion for DTG ink. In light / white / blank cotton garments, DTG ink delivers a softer texture than DTF. Then DTG works on high-level products, DTF goes on lower.
Shake the ink well before putting it on the machine; It will be best if you can use it up within 1 week after opening.
Before using our products for the first time, please empty the ink cartridges, ink circuits, and dampers. If possible, please clean the ink circuit system and replace it with a new damper.
It’s very important to make an ICC profile to get brilliant colors if need makes an ICC profile, contact us, we will help.
Transport and storage conditions for digital printing ink:
Avoid direct light, and storage temperature at 15-30℃; after opening the seal of the package, please avoid dust and other sundries going into ink composition.
The goods are identified as Non-dangerous goods in accordance with IMO, RID/ADR, IMDG, ICAO, and IATA.
To do DTG printing, you need other related products except for DTG inks as:
DTG printer,
Pre-coating machine (by spray or by scratch), if don’t have this machine, you can do by hand,
Cotton garment.
What kind of ink does DTG use?
DTG ink is a kind of water-based pigment ink, environmentally friendly and harmless to the body.
How much does DTG printer ink cost?
In the year 2022, DTG ink suppliers in the Chinese market, for wholesale quantity more than 1000 KGS, DTG color inks (KCMY LC LM, etc.) price about ￥180-250 / KG, white ink in ￥250-￥400 / KG. The price ranges according to time and technology updates.
Does DTG use sublimation ink?
DTG ink is not sublimation ink.
Mostly, sublimation ink is water-based dye heat transfer sublimation ink, it prints on a kind of coated heat transfer paper, and then transfers to polyester textiles. And there is a kind of direct print on coated polyester sublimation ink too.
DTG ink works on cotton, and direct print on the cotton garment, with no need for transfer.
How long do DTG prints last?
In the garment market, we use color resistance levels to measure it. DTG prints’ color resistance level is usually between 4-5 levels. Compare to 5-level sublimation, DTG’s color resistance level is lower.
Recently, our company discovered that there were unscrupulous persons illegally selling ink in the brand of SUPERINKS without our authorization in New Delhi India, which seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of our company.
SUPERINKS solvent ink with high quality, stable and fluent printing for fast printers, which works excellently in Konica 13PL heads, sell at a reasonable good price. Customers like our ink very much. The unscrupulous persons know this information and make fake ones, the fake ones with bad quality, sell at an extremely cheap price.
I strongly urge respected customers to buy carefully after recognizing the original SUPERINKS ink by testing the quality, identifying the sales channel, and identifying the appearance of the package. SUPERINKS Ink only sell to professional distributor, with a good company reputation, we will never direct sell to any end user or personal trader. And there is no SUPERINKS brand label ink selling in New Delhi India until now (July, 1. 2023). We sell our ink without a label but with the trademark embossed on the bottle.
If customer wants to buy original high quality SUPERINKS ink in the New Delhi area of India, please contact:
Company name: Raaj Sign Products
Address: 8805/8806. First floor ,Gali no-3 Multani dhanda Near bikaner sweets Pharganj New delhi-110055
