From the world of high fashion to fast fashion clothing to sportswear, from accessories to furnishings, the boom in digital printing on textiles has contributed to transforming the dynamics underlying in the individual sectors, in creative, productive and application terms.
Digital technology opens the doors to creativity by encouraging photographic reproduction and the creation of more complex designs, as well as to experimentation with brand-new applications.
It has also modified process logic, reducing the time to market and enabling on demand production, in small and medium-sized volumes and in large numbers of variations, without any economic impact.
Established in 1999 in Como, in the heart of Italy’s textiles district,
Aleph boasts solid know-how in the construction of printers for the textile digital inkjet printing and the development of supporting software. ALEPH is a printing solutions company that includes a wide range of applications for digital printing, starting from furniture, sportswear, up to fashion items.
The fashion world, in all its forms, stands out as one of the sectors most interested in the digital transformation of the textile industry; this it’s another reason why Aleph can look in a positive way to its future plans: an annual rate of growth predicted for the next five year’s period of 39% for each year and a wide opportunity in all fashion sectors are two good reason to be positive; we are ready to take this opportunity with an innovative product together with we can meet emerging needs of a very dynamic market.
The ALEPH textile printers meet the market demand for modern printing workshops, thanks to the possibility of printing on all synthetic and natural fibres with water, acid dye, reactive and dispersed-based colorants.
European project LAFORTE is focused on developing a new technology of Large Format Textile Printer Machines capable of increasing the industrial productivity and performance of printed textiles. Our target is to manufacture printers enabling to print 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) at Ultra-Fast Speed (5,08 m/sec) in 1-direct smart print-pass or 600 dpi at High Speed mode (1,69 m/s) in 16 print-pass. In this context a new vacuum system will also be developed for replacing the traditional use of glue for fixing the paper position in the printer during the printing process. As a result an extra 15% output rate with 20% higher velocity and 15% less time in set-up operations and change-over times will be achieved. Another consequence, is that the customers will not need to remove the glue from the surface pad, avoiding the use of nearly 50 kg of solvent per batch and about 50 litres of water per hour of operation, making this new process environmentally friendly thanks to total savings up to 100.000 litres of water per year in the whole industrial process.
