New Printheads are coming on 2016...

Ricoh 2220 Printhead

It has been over 7000 days since I started to work On Inkjet. And almost 6500 days ago my first Piezo head Xaar 128. It was wonderful to see such heads on that time. It is 80pl and firing continous ...
I was think this is top value of Printheads . It was true at that moment, but innovation and developments never stops.

Now On Graphic and Textile markets we talk only 3.5pl -14 pl pritnheads.

Market talks Faster pritnouts and smaller droplets.

It seems Epson holding Textile market , Konica holding Graphic market.

Today I am expecting Ricoh printheads, used to be Hitachi Koki, will be competitive printheads which is Ricoh 2220 printhead is coming on on many printers.

2016 will be more Epson, more Konica and More and more Ricoh year.

2014 Model Textile printers coming soon..

Every year is coming with new hopes and wishes.

That is the best part of the life. 

Digital Printing market is also hoping to see new Textile printers in 2014 .

What are they ?

New Textile printers -Which one is your choice?

• New Mimaki printers
• More Kyocera head printers
• More Ricoh GEN E5 based printers
• Pigment printing Revolution - Kornit and Eurotech is leading
• More Sublimation ink manufacturers,
• New Mutoh printers
• New Roland printers
• Epson new Belt type Textile printers

Happy New YEAR to ALL !!!

I wish all your dreams may come true on digital printing at Year 2014.

Epson DX5-DX7 printhead Eco Solvent Printers...

Epson head printers

Since 2 years, there is big booming coming from Chinese Printer factories ,where they develop electronics for Epson DX5- DX7 printheads and got printheads from A4-A3 Epson Water based printers and serve Eco Solvent printers to market.

All over the world,These printers are chosen due to low cost and high quality level.

Due to Market share of these chinese printers are moving ,Epson as printhead manufacturer was not satisfied and change all structure of Epson DX5 and DX7 from 2013 and suddenly DX5 and DX7 old style printhead become limited on China.

What it caused that Printhead prices increased dramatically from 600USD to 1000 USD...

And For Future Printhead needs,will be very difficult for enduser.

We warn you to be careful to buy Epson DX5 or DX7 printhead chinese printers, where you may not find printheads on market easily.

If you look after ,suitable ink for this Epson DX5 or DX7 printhead chinese printers, we recommend you to visit this site.

If you want to buy Mimaki-Roland-Mutoh, Which one?

If you want to buy one of the leading brand Mimaki,Roland or Mutoh digital printers, which one you gonna decide..?

Roland printer

There is many aspects for your decision making for these printers.Such as:

1.Printer Speed: There is many models but mostly Mimaki and Mutoh printer is higher speed than Roland as well known on the market.
2.Print Quality: Roland is known better quality than Mimaki and Mutoh. This is very small quality different each due to Epson technology.

Mimaki printer

3.Quality based: All of them are quality and high standart printers ,however Roland mechanics are little robust them others.


4.Technology : Mimaki is very big technology follower and make new impacts with moving from Epson head to Ricoh GEN E5 head .
5.Simplicity: It is the most important point to fix the printer when have problem. In this case Mimaki and Roland is the top level on simplicity.

Mutoh printer

6.Pricing level: Comparing 3 of them, Mutoh looks always better pricing on same or better specifications than Mimaki and Roland.
7.Easy to use: All of them are user friendly printer manufacturer. 


All above 7 points are subjective points for everyone ,more less the %80 agreed on market.

We cannot say any brand better rate than other, however these days Mimaki making big marketing move with new product lines with its new factory at China.

Chose the best for your needs.

If you want to buy Flag Printer,

Printing on Flag which is mostly polyester based textile, has versatile solutions of digital printing on market.

These Digital Printing Flag printers have 2 solutions common:

DGEN



• Low Batch Flag Printers: Most of them have Epson printhead printers,Mimaki,Roland,Dgen and Chinese brands with small embedded Fixation. Manufacturing capacity Hourly around 20sqm and daily around 400 sqm maximum.Ink costs over 1 Euro per sqm.
• High Production Flag printers: Here are high capacity printers such as Dgen,Eurotechprinters where manufacturing capacity over 80 sqm per hour and daily production will upto 1600 sqm . sizes of printers almost 2-3.2m wide and Printheads mostly Ricoh or Seiko printhead printers.Ink costs lower than 1 Euro per sqm.,

EUROTECHPRINTERS

In these type of printers, you should choose ,what you really need to? 

Low production or High production Flag printers.

Flag is the key of every product or a country, It has to be raised and painted well...

Sublimation printers around the World....

If you ask someone, what is sublimation ? ,Most of answer are 

related about Transfer from Paper to Polyester Textile.


There is a lot of Sublimation Printers on all over the world, Here are lists:

1-Entry Level:

* Epson Printers (modified to Dye-Sub) -Size from A4-A3-A0
* Epson Printer itself coming around 2013
* Azon printers

2-Medium Level Printers:


* Dgen
* Roland
*Mimaki (very well known on the market)
* Mutoh
*Chinese Made DX5-DX7 printers..

3- Industrial Level Printers:

* Reggiani
* MS
* Robustelli
* Stork
* Eurotechprinters
* Dgen
* La Mechannica

If you think to invest a Textile printer ,

Whenever A baby born ,This means time pass and we got older little more.
Someone dies and some borns,that is life goes.
Technology is even same ,today new , tomorrow old ...
Life never waits us...We must follow.
On Digital Inkjet printing life cycle is total parallel to our life.
Since 6 years I was following Textile printers on the World market.


It was always sample based printers and mostly Flag printers hold by Mimaki,roland,mutoh or updated Roland printer,Dgen ,which is one of the best Textile market understanding company ...And some big players Like Epson-Robustelli ,old Dupont was created Textile Fashion type printer with expensive base prices.


There was always limitation on Textile printing,due to Printhead speeds,Printer costs and interest of Textile factories.


Vutek,Gandinnovation makes 3.2m dye dispers and solvent dye dispers (with Hilord ink),based pritners.


However the Show ITMA in Barcelona become ERA of New Textile printing  market.


We see these on the show:

1.Epson DX5printhead based Chinese printers withFixations ,still not perfect,but price effective, attach flag market to get more shares from roland,Dgen and mimaki and mutoh. These means these kind of printes will get cheaper soon and it will spread more over on World market.


2.Kyocera based which is 2560 nozzle printhead,printers come Fashion and real textile market with high speed capacity ,such as La meccanıca,MS print,Stork. Only problem I saw on this printers are Ink still not to good level firing with Kyocera head as it is now with Seiko 508gs and Ricoh GenE4 type printheads.But it gives acceleration to market.

3.Ricoh GENE4 printhead based printers such as Durst,Dgen Teleois,Mimaki TX series are stable working with medium level speed.(around 100 sqm per hour). On these kind of printhead still Reactive and Pigment ink i didnt exactly see. Dispers works continous and perfectly.

4.Konica Minolta ,itself with Nassenger 1000 which announce 1000sqm , was impressive machine speed however we feel still there is some issues on printers when we talk some expertise on ITMA when they follow printer 2-3 days. Konica is powerful on Italy,Como Lake area mostly.


5.Seiko 508gs printhead printers which most of them dont show itself on ITMA which was strange because one of the best and robust head which workable with all inks Dispers,Pigment,Reactive and Acid is Epson and Seiko 508gs..  On ITMA only FTEX ,Italian company show printer however other players such as Turkish manufacturer Eurotechprinters,which I was heard they made Belt type printer with 508gs postpone their launchment to Sign Istanbul 2011. This will be one of my leading product with Dgen Teleois series printer.Zimmer also made 48 printhead printers for factory and have very good reputation .

6.Robustelli and Epson printers are always market big player however only Big investors can handle.Machine totally Epson and works perfect.

Lets talk about some pricing romours :

1.Dx-5 based Chinese printers with Fixations : Prices between 20-40.000 USD

2.Kyocera based Printers: Prices between min.250.000 Euro-450.000 EURO

4.Ricoh Based printers : Prices between 55.000 Euro-120.000 Euro

5.Konica minolta : Prices between 400.000-600.000 euro

6.Seiko 508gs printers: Prices between 100.000-600.000 Euro(zimmer Colaris price)

7.Robustelli printers:Prices between 350.000-600.000 Euro

If I were you, it is time to go Ricoh or Seiko 508gs based printers for 100sqm per hour is good enough with variable dot printing.


LETS GO TEXTILE .....