5 meter textile offline fixation has several challenges, from handling 5 meter materials (loading and unloading both the printer AND the calender) in addition to loading 5-meter protective tissue paper to production inefficiencies of a twostep process. Additionally, with today’s very quick turn-around for jobs, printing and removing a job from the press as it’s completed can help in the “quick turn” nature of today’s business.

Many companies will gang multiple images up on a 5-meter roll and cut them after printing. The equipment features the ability to simultaneously print on two different width rolls, allowing the customer to print a 1-meter wide roll next to a 2.6-meter width roll. This gives the customer the ability to maximize the entire system when not needing 5-meter output and the flexibility of multiple rolls.

Media loading can be quite costly in many grand-format inline 5 meter textile systems. The equipment has an integrated ultrasonic automatic sewing system to attach new rolls, significantly reducing waste as there is no need to completely web the system on roll change-outs.

Textile, compared to paper or vinyl, has some unique challenges inherent to its structure. Many times, different fabrics can perform very differently in a printer when printing direct. The equipment features several ways to adjust the fabric tension so the system prints consistently and reliably regardless of the type of fabric, such as a woven backlit, knit poplin, soft-knit, heavy-knit, etc.