Cestrian Imaging has installed the UK’s first EFI Reggiani Pro 340 digital textile printer. The new 340 cm wide device will meet increasing demand for high quality fabric printed displays, branded apparel and more.
The Cheadle, UK-based company’s customers like the flexibility of fabrics, the vibrancy of the colours and the ecological benefits that come from being able to reuse rain proof branded fabrics.
‘With the EFI Reggiani Pro 340, we can offer even more customised work and spectuacularly coloured and complex designs,’ said Paul Gibson, Cestrian’s production director. ‘This printer will allow us to deliver just in time designs for freestanding fabric walls, light boxes and other fabric displays.’
The printer also provides accurate and consistent fabric handling due to a ‘sticky belt’ industrial feeding feature that can handle a variety of fabrics and papers at high speed rates.
‘We are also excited about the flourescent ink capabilities. These inks produce bright colours beyond the range reproducible by process colour printing, while the availability of 16 ink channels guarantees smooth gradations,’ said Mr Gibson.
The company can use any kind of process colour inks it deems necessary in its new printer, including disperse direct, reactive, acid, disperse sublimation, and textile pigment. EFI Reggiani printers are also eco friendly as they can run water-based inks with little to no odour and have low power consumption.
‘Our partnership with Cestrian Imaging reflects how important it is for EFI to provide technologies that can fuel greater success in a wide range of print signage and marketing applications,’ said Paul Cripps, regional vice president of sales for EFI. ‘After helping the company successfully expand its signage and graphics capabilities with a pair of high speed EFI Vutek inkjet presses, we are happy to see the company continue its remarkable expansion with an EFI Reggiani Pro printer to address the rapidly expanding textile imaging market.’
