Customisation of fabrics for garments, accessories, upholstery and soft signage is growing, which represents a significant business opportunity for Kodak in the film-to-fabric, DTG and wide format print industries. The company has announced a new ink system for film-to-fabric (or direct to film/DTF) printing projects.
Film-to-fabric ink systems can be used with most modified inkjet printers and involves three simple components: powder, film and ink. The benefits of DTF, like the KODACOLOR film-to-fabric (FTF) System, include the ability to print on a wide variety of fabrics (e.g. natural fabrics, polyester, nylon, rayon, blends and cotton); less investment in hardware for start-up and more flexibility to accept customer printing projects.
KODACOLOR includes KODACOLOR Powder, KODACOLOR Film and ink designed for use in a film-to-fabric application. Customers with existing DTG printers have the option to use KODACOLOR DTG inks with KODACOLOR Film and powder to add KODACOLOR FTF System to their offerings.
For fabric print shop owners wanting high-quality fabric prints without the expense of a full-fledged DTG fabric printing system or wanting to offer additional print projects on fabrics other than cotton to their customers, Kodak’s FTF ink system is the ideal solution.
Grant French, Kodak’s DTG and FTF product manager said, ‘We are pleased to announce the entry of Kodak into this market, giving more customers access to a high-quality, lower cost business option to create amazing printed fabric projects.’
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