Madhu Sudan Dadu – chairman, Arun Varshney – vice president and business head textiles business and Smarth Bansal – GM – product/brand management, ColorJet Group along with their print head partner Hironobu Fujihashi – general manager and Anshul Prashar – deputy senior marketing manager, Kyocera Asia, unveiled the high speed, high quality direct to fabric digital textile printer – Metro NXT at the event, the company said in a media release.
Madhu Sudan Dadu said, “The new Metro NXT will bring a new dimension to the existing portfolio of machine providing a high productive solution to big textile mills, processing houses, exporters who are looking for high production along with high precision printing.”
ColorJet Group launched Metro Nxt at India ITME2022, a high-quality and high-speed digital textile printing machine. This industrial textile printer combines digital benefits of high-speed with 32 industrial-grade Kyocera print head and high quality print using ColorJet Recommended Inks. It is available in 8 colour options.
Hironobu Fujihashi said, “I am expecting the future of the digital printing for textile. Digital printing is a promising technology that uses less ink, water and is better for the environment and for humankind as a whole. This is both for the textile industry, but also for the wider world. We are very excited that the company has emerged in India that can make such a high-performance digital inkjet printer for textile application.”
Metro NXT addresses various market segments such as fashion apparel (women’s, men’s, and kids clothing), home furnishings (curtains, bedsheets, and sofa covers), etc and can be used to print shirts, skirts, scarves, and sarees. Metro NXT prints on wool, cotton, viscose and polyamide. It is also suited for home decoration fabrics and high-quality products.
India ITME will be hosting a live demonstration of the printer in Hall 5, Booth H5F3G4. The event is ongoing at India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida.
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