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SPGPrints Debuts In Pakistan With JAVELIN Digital Printer Induction In MA Textiles Facility

SPGPrints made its debut in Pakistan with the first JAVELIN digital printer machine sold to the country’s premier textile printing manufacturers, MA Textiles. For MA Textiles, this means enhanced service flexibility and design offerings. The machine has been installed at MA Textiles’ Shahdara facility near Lahore.

The JAVELIN printer, which uses scanning print technology, was ordered at ITM Istanbul last year. MA Textiles was looking for a digital solution to meet today’s rapidly changing demands.

“Digital printing is able to handle shorter runs and faster job changeovers, and this was something we knew we needed,” said Naveed, the spokesperson of MA Textiles. “We decided to invest in the SPGPrints JAVELIN because of its advantages in terms of quality and reliability,” he added.

“First, we print a significant amount of cotton. Working with cotton can result in the formation of lint that can clog the nozzles of the print heads. With SPGPrints’ patented technology, ink is circulated in the print head. This makes the print heads more durable and longer-lasting,” he explained.

“Secondly, SPGPrints offers a 30-month warranty, which is much longer than the other systems we were looking at. This was also the most important factor affecting our JAVELIN investment,” he pointed out.

The JAVELIN digital printer uses the proven Fujifilm Dimatix Samba print heads. The ink circulation function inside the print heads is part of SPGPrints’ Archer technology that enables variable ink drops from 2pL-10pL to be fired up to 4mm from the substrate. This enables the use of a very wide range of textiles because the high jetting distance means that thicker, coarser and piled textiles can be printed, without damaging the print head.

“Colour is another reason for printing digitally,” Naveed continued. “With conventional printing, the number of colours that can be printed is limited; with digital, there are no limits, and smaller designs can be printed with fine detail,” he added.

MA Textiles is a family business that began as a dyeing house in Karachi. As it added customers, it also added printing and finishing services. Its products include towels, home textiles, apparel and fabrics. Each of the the company’s departments is capable of cutting and stitching up to 15,000 metres per day.

The addition of the JAVELIN will give MA Textiles a digital printing capacity of two million linear metres per year. Moreover, thanks to the printer’s minimal setup times, the company will be well-placed to offer shorter production runs and reduced lead-times, cost-effectively.

“We are planning to bring our digitally printed textiles to the retail market at the end of 2017. Our dyeing customers have reacted with enthusiasm to our digital printing investment, and the value it brings them. Explaining the benefits of SPGPrints’ technology is not so difficult, as the company has a strong reputation for high-performance textile machines in Pakistan,” he concluded.