Sustainability is a matter of actions, not of words. Digital Textile Printing is the answer This is what we think; and drives our day-to-day actions in helping the Textile Printing companies to implement a sustainable production chain. In 2011 – anticipating the times the Lario Singlepass digital printing machine was designed, which today is even more relevant than ever before, to reduce chemical waste, CO2 emissions, and water consumption.
printing technology combined with a partial reshoring of productions is the way to deal with the ongoing increase of logistics and process costs and prevent new supply chain disruption in future crises, choosing a sustainable high quality performing technology.
The pandemic has marked a turning point in the Textile Printing Industry.
Single-pass technology revives - in a modern twist - the conventional textile printing: print heads remain stationary while the fabric runs underneath by a rotating belt. It provides reliability and productivity close to the conventional ones so much that, today, 32 MS's Lario printing machines are working worldwide with a printing production speed up to 75 m/min.
Since 2020, the pandemic and market turbulence have radically changed the Textile market. One of the main effects of these events is the speed-up of the customers' migration from retail to online shopping, which implies an increasing pressure on the global supply-chain, due to the shorter time to market. Digital
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Fast, versatile, and sustainable, digital printing right fits the production needs of our time.
The online-shopping demand stands out for less re-order predictability and the collections' high customization. The single-pass tech perfectly fits these requests, even if printing runs decline has reduced the gap in production capacity compared to the last generation scanning machines. The Lario single pass makes the most out of printing heads' performance, offering high and constant productivity over time. This result has been possible thanks to the advancements in the development of print heads – last generation ones- and inks and the designing of customized inks and waveforms, thanks to the cooperation between MS and JK R&D Teams. The maintenance of a single-pass printing machine is as simple as it seems.
