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Kornit Digital To Display Storm Duo R-Series And Avalanche 1000 R-Series At FESPA 2017

Kornit Digital plans to display its digital textile printing systems at Fespa 2017 which is scheduled to take place in Hamburg, Germany, between May 8 and May 12.

The Fespa Hamburg event will witness the public launch of Kornit’s new Storm Duo direct-to-garment printing system. With its 16 print heads in a double CMYK configuration, the Storm Duo is optimised for the production of light garments, with a productivity of more than 200 prints per hour. It will be a useful addition for garment decorators intending to centralise their white garment production or produce special products such as tea towels.

Storm Duo is another member of Kornit’s third generation Storm platform and includes advanced features such as a re-circulating ink system, an integrated ultrasonic humidifier, a battery backup system, a quick replace pallet mechanism and many more.

The Kornit Avalanche Hexa R-Series, the successor of Kornit’s direct-to-garment flagship Avalanche Hexa with CMYKRG+W support, will be on display. Its re-circulating ink system optimises print quality, reliability and ink efficiency. Users of the Avalanche R-Series can benefit from up to 20% in ink savings.

With the system’s double bridge architecture, the white and the color print phases can happen in parallel, leading to a productivity of up to 220 light and 160 dark garments per hour. The Avalanche R-Series has been available since January 31, with multiple systems are already running in mass customisation production environments such as Cimpress.

Also on display will be Kornit’s Vulcan, which has been commercially available since beginning of 2017 as a digital rival to screen printing carousels. This heavy-duty production system is targeted at screen printers producing collections and short runs for retailers or for promotional purposes.

The Vulcan offers the lowest cost per print for run lengths between 50 and 500 garments. Unlike Kornit’s traditional direct-to-garment printing systems, the Vulcan sports a conveyor system for printed pallets with pre-treatment, white and CMYKRG printing happening in parallel. The Vulcan’s unique architecture allows it to print up to 250 garments per hour, both on dark and light garments.

Kornit will connect its systems at Fespa 2017 with Custom Gateway’s end-to-end workflow platform. This platform covers the entire supply chain, from website and personalisation front end through automated production and printing to packaging and shipping. The solution is flexible and suitable both for B2B customers (e.g. fulfilment) as well as B2C (e.g. customers with e-commerce websites).

Kornit’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development Guy Zimmerman said, “As the market leader in industrial textile mass customisation, we are in a position to further expand and diversify our offerings. The new Storm Duo, which has been optimised for fast double CMYK printing on light garments, is a leading example. At the same time, we keep expanding our software and workflow offering so our customers can benefit from our technology as much as possible.”