Fabric Prints Trends 2017 Fabric Pattern in Fashion

Over the past year, there have been some heady developments related to digital textile press for the dress industry. Globally, over 30 billion meters of printed fabric were produced, with 5% being produced digitally. There is still significant growth potential in the digital fabric printing market.

With a focus on style, here are my top four technologies and trends driving innovation in 2017:

Cloth Printing with the Epson PrecisionCore

In February 2017, I had to chance to visit the Epson-Robustelli production manufactory in Como, Italia to encounter the first Monna Lisa Evo Tre digital textile printers beingness built for customers.

Using PrecisionCore inkjet printheads, the latest generation inkjet press applied science from Epson, the Evo Tre printers designed past Robustelli have quickly ready a new standard for high productivity and quality.

The PrecisionCore printheads feature micron thick piezo-electric crystals, which are a hundredth of a homo pilus thick, resulting in a college density of print nozzles and smaller ink drop sizes for fine photographic details.

The printer also has an impressive print speed of upwards to 650 m2/h and is capable of press up to eight colours with acid, reactive, disperse or pigments inks. For designers wanting the highest quality in fabric press, the Monna Lisa Evo Tre will pb the manufacture for high-end fashion applications.

Single Pass Textile Printing Takes Off

More unmarried pass loftier speed textile printers continued to exist installed around the world in 2017, including several installs in Portugal, Turkey and China in item. Nosotros are seeing more specialization happening beyond sublimation and pigment applications, with several new single pass printers coming online using reactive and acid inks in the by year.

Productivity is besides rapidly increasing. For example, since installing a single pass SPGPrints State highway printer in July 2017, Dongheng Grouping in People's republic of china is able to produce xxx,000 meters of printed cotton fiber cloth in i shift. For a further overview of this technology, check out my article: Zero to 60. Single pass digital textile printers accelerate production .

The next challenge for single pass fabric printing is handling variable data printing for mass customization. Further developments in this area will probably exist made public in time for ITMA 2019 or sooner.

Garment Design to Cloth Impress in a Click

Several major garment design CAD software firms have released impress file output features, allowing designers to impress out panels of nigh created 3D objects straight onto cloth, which can and then exist cut & sewn.

This is a new feature that was released this year in garment pattern software from Gerber, EFI Optitex, Browzwear, Tukatech and Clo3D, resolving clunky work-around methods that designers previously had to create.

More information can exist institute in my article: The Futurity of Cloth Design is 3D .

Neon Inks

The last major neon fluorescent color fashion trend was in 2014, but peradventure we will encounter a resurgence in 2018 with 'well-nigh neon' colors.

Perfectly timed to meet the demand are neon NeoPigment Intenso inks, released fall 2017, from Kornit Digital for their direct-to-fabric Allegro fabric printers. The prior twelvemonth, Roland and Mimaki also launched fluorescent inks for sublimation printing, heavily focusing sports and teamwear apparel applications.

Once designers understand the colour palette potential of fluorescent colors mixed with CYMK+ inks, expect to come across more bright and colorful textile prints hit the runways in the coming seasons.

Further Reading:

• The Top Spring 2018 Runway Trends To Know: A look ahead at the upcoming season.Harper'due south BAZAAR
• Monna Lisa Evo Tre. F.lli Robustelli S.r.fifty
• Zero to threescore. Single pass digital cloth printers accelerate production
• SPGPrints to demonstrate the power and potential of its Archer® applied science and inks for digital textile printing at ShanghaiTex 201 7
• Lotta by Browzwear
• The Time to come of Textile Design is 3D
• This is the Colour Every Trendsetter Volition Be Wearing Side by side Season. Highsnobiety
• NeoPigment Intenso Inks. Kornit Digital

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