Digital textile printing (DTP) was developed in the early 90’s and up to now it has provided many advantages compared to traditional textile printing (TTP) as the ability to print on both synthetic and natural fibres, high quality printing, high production speeds and reduction on resources as water and energy. DTP presents many opportunities to change the dynamics as well as the business models of the reference markets by the reproduction of complex designs very rich in both patterns and colours, reduction in production time from design creation to printing and environmental and economic sustainability. Nevertheless, DTP only represents the 2-3% of the global printing textile market due to its higher costs compared to TTP in industrial production.
In this context, the objective of GreenDrop is to develop a no-water one-step digital textile printing process applicable to all kind of textiles in order to reduce the costs of digital textile printing towards the replacement of traditional textile printing as well as to reduce the water consumption to zero (TTP consumes 50-60 litres of water per meter).
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