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The Textile Magazine
JUly 2012
Sphene – Stork’s high-tech textile
printer introduced
ITMA Asia + CITME 2012
Visitors to the Stork Prints stand
at ITMA Asia in Shanghai during
June 12-16 were able to see how
the company continues to lead the
way as a total systems solutions
provider for the textile printing
industry. On display were the new
digital textile printer Sphene as well
as consumables like rotary screens
and digital ink.
Stork Prints is one of the leading
digital ink producers to the indus-
try. It also builds and sells printing
machines and RIP software. Be-
sides the complete digital ink port-
folio, the stall visitors witnessed
live demonstrations of the brand
new digital textile printer Sphene,
which is the future for digital textile
printing with print speeds of up to
an amazing 555 m²/hr. It makes it
amazingly easy, and cost-effective,
to carry out top-class digital textile
printing. Its industrial fabric feed-
ing system allows virtually any fab-
ric imaginable to be used, at widths
the company has been optimising
ink performance for high-speed
digital printing machines to help
deliver superior image quality. This
includes patented technology to
prevent striping.
Quasar ReAcid ink is already
being used in the very first LaRio
prototype, currently running at a
customer site in Italy. Visitors to
the Stork Prints stand could find out
more about two new types of QUA-
SAR ink – reactive and acid.
Visitors were also able to see
much more in the way of printing
innovation, including the unique
NovaScreen rotary screens. These
of up to 1.85 metres.
There were also a plenty
of printing samples of Stork
Prints’ new NEBULA reactive,
acid and disperse ink sets for
Kyocera print heads. With the
special Reactive Deep Black
ink, you get a profoundly in-
tense and dark black that really
has to be seen to be believed.
Stork Prints also presented its
complete range of FLARE inks
that run on all printers using
Epson print heads, including
Robustelli Monna Lisa printers,
underlining the fact that the un-
rivalled Stork Prints inks are not
just suited for the new printer
Sphene, but can also run on the
Reggiani Renoir, MS JP and
MS JPK-series printers and the
La Meccanica Qualijet K-series.
Recently Stork Prints devel-
oped a dedicated range of inks,
known as QUASAR, for the MS
LaRio, for partner and leading Ital-
ian manufacturer
MS. The suitability
of QUASAR inks
for the LaRio stems
from Stork Prints’
considerable expe-
rience in develop-
ing inks for its own
single-pass digital
printing machines
for label print-
ing, the DSI. For
a number of years
Mr. Ashish Kaul
Managing Director, Stovec Industries Ltd.