EFI Reggiani COLORS Printer Drive New Capabilities
The EFI Reggiani TERRA solution featuring new pigment ink with binder for a greener, faster and competitive textile process; EFI Optitex® 2D/3D CAD design software; and the EFI Fiery® DesignPro software suite for print preparation and production. With these products, designers, brands and man- ufacturers alike benefit from the ability to speed time to market and deliver stunning, digitally printed apparel, home textiles and more.
BREAKTHROUGH COLORS FOR DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING
The Reggiani COLORS printer – EFI’s fourth high-tech industrial textile printer launched in less than one year of focused, innovative development – offers a unique imaging configuration that is especially important for customers seeking to establish a distinct competitive advantage. The printer runs at speeds up to 560 square metres per hour, delivering unmatched printing quality and uniformity with an extended colour gamut, superior colour depth and increased penetration into fabric. Users can place the printer’s 12 colours in a high-productivity 6+6 configuration for superior imaging at much faster throughput speeds. An innovative continuous ink recirculation system ensures outstanding reliability and lets users print with a wider variety of inks while reducing purging and maintenance. Plus, proprietary electronics on the printer reduce setup time and streamline maintenance tasks. New EFI Reggiani printing software on the COLORS model allows for real-time image processing, which improves users’ overall workflow performance. The printer, which is available in 180-, 240- and 340-mm widths, can also use nearly any config- uration of inks – including special inks, inks with different chemistry types, and special treatments.At ITMA Asia, EFI is also presenting the Reggiani TERRA solution for direct-to-textile production. EFI Reggiani TERRA eliminates the need for steaming or washing on direct-to-textile applications using a greener, more-efficient polymerisation process that takes place as printed textile goes through the printer’s onboard dryer. Users can achieve superior results – including excellent wet and dry fastness, intense colours and fine detail reproduction – while using less time, water and energy.
“We have expanded our role as a trusted advisor to help customers deliver better productivity and prof- itability in digital textile applications with several new EFI Reggiani printer launches in the past year, including our FLEXY and VOGUE printers,” said EFI Reggiani Vice President and General Manager Adele Genoni.
WORLD-CLASS DESIGN AND PREP TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL TEXTILE PRODUCTION
The new version of EFI Optitex software on display, O/18, deliv- ers a faster, more customisable, user-friendly experience, saving time and resources with a faster time to market. The software also provides more than 100 types of pre-defined fabrics to choose from. Users can now visualise their designs before creating physical samples in a better, more realistic digital environment.
And, a new EFI Optitex Marker Creation Wizard enables users to create and define multiple markers within a single, user-friendly interface.
The new version 4 of EFI’s Fiery DesignPro software suite at ITMA Asia includes new and updated plugins that significantly reduce the time and effort needed to create repeat patterns and sophisticated colourways directly within Adobe® Photoshop®. The new tools now also offer multi-channel separations with more colour depth, eliminating the need to reduce designs to indexed colours. Users also gain superior fidelity with smoother transitions and gradients and optimum colour results, especially for digitally printed textiles. Exclusive bi-directional integration between Fiery DesignPro and Fiery digital front ends (DFEs) for textile applications provides a seamless handshake between design and production.
