The MTEX Blue Pigment direct-to-textile printer
The first UK company to take delivery of the MTEX Blue with Pigments, Lewis & Wood, specialise in textiles and wallpaper printing.
The company invested in an MTEX Blue printer with Pigment inks for printing digitally onto fabrics. Textile printer and cofounder of the company, Stephen Lewis, explained the reasoning behind the new investment: ‘We now digitally print our wallpapers and so printing onto fabrics was a natural extension of this business. We’ve spent two and a half years building our knowledge of wallpaper printing and now we’re ready to start experimenting with fabrics.’
The MTEX Blue Pigment printer will be used to create samples and experimental fabrics in-house, instead of waiting for several weeks for strike off’s to arrive, by which time the design project may have moved on. By bringing this process in-house, the design department can complete the sampling process faster.
‘In order to compete with the big boys, we have to be unique. We need to be unusual and different, which is why we use a wide range of techniques and finishes to create our fabric ranges,’ Mr Lewis continued. ‘We’ve only had the printer a few weeks and we are still learning. There is a considerable learning curve when it comes to printing digitally on to fabrics compared to wallpapers but we feel that in MTEX we have a partner manufacturer that is willing to help us with this learning curve and equally through our own experimentation, we can feed back to them to help develop the project. We are very confident that in MTEX, we have a supportive supplier that will partner and support us along this exciting journey.’
