Velvet Jet, a Bordeaux Digital PrintInk division for textile printing inks, had its successful show at ITMA of the industry’s first pigment ink that prints on all fabrics with one single process.
Visitors to the Velvet Jet stand witnessed the revolutionary game changer for the digital textile industry: Any textile application made possible with one Velvet Jet pigment ink and one simple printing line.
The new water-based pigment ink high quality characteristics include uniform coverage for quality prints on any type of fabric while preserving the natural feel of fabrics. In addition, the ink requires only a single pretreatment to all different fabrics significantly simplifies the process, while the fact there is no post treatment to the ink shortens the entire process and significantly reduces electricity and water consumption.
Ink attributes such as rub and wash resistance are high even without any pretreatment to the fabric. When using Velvet Jet optimizer the test results are among the highest in the market with 5/5 wash and rub resistance and 7/8 color fastness.
“Velvet Jet’s pigment ink simplifies the complexity of the current digital textile printing,” said Guy Evron, Marketing Director at VelvetJet. “This pigment ink created a huge interest at ITMA as the fashion, apparel, footwear, decorative and industrial textile markets recognize the huge business potential Velvet jet can bring.”
Textile manufacturers and integrators will now have the ability to provide new, simpler solutions to their customers, while reducing overall printing costs and eliminating the multiple production lines needed for printing different fabrics. Visitors to the Velvet Jet stand enjoyed a live performance of the new pigment ink and were able to get a closer look at the different applications and fabrics all printed with one pigment ink – Velvet Jet.
Digital textile is gradually increasing its share of the textile industry. Velvet Jet ink, with the simple one ink-one process for all fabrics digital, is expected to dominate the textile printing arena.
Bordeaux is the developer, manufacturer and distributor of customer-focused premium inks and comprehensive solutions for all wide format inkjet technologies, printers and the graphic arts industry. For the past 15 years Bordeaux has been a worldwide leader in development of a wide range of inks for the digital printing market for an enormous amounts of applications and industries.