Kornit Digital?s Announces Paradigm II

The new year heralds the arrival into North America of Kornit Digital’s Paradigm II digital add-on station, developed to complement screen-printing carousels and oval machines. With superior short-run and multi-colour capabilities, direct-to-garment printing can now be united into an analog production line. This exciting new opportunity results in unique garment applications, merging inexpensive white layers and effects from the screen process with benefits such as photorealistic skin tones and smooth gradations, a high yield and process efficiencies. In addition to mass customisation environments, this versatile direct-to-garment printer can be used just for digital applications where samples and low volumes are required – opportunities denied to screen-printers until now. The Paradigm II features ease of use, fast throughput and a bulk ink delivery system, plus the option for an integrated humidity system. The NeoPigment process’s powerful and effective water-based properties make it ideal for discharge printing to enable dark fabrics to be produced. This extends the application possibilities for screen-printing companies that want to combine the speed and wide colour gamut of digital printing with special analog effects. The Kornit Digital Paradigm II throughputs up to 200 garments per hour, and is ideal for use on cottons and blends, lycra, silk, viscose, leather, denim and a host of other typical fabrics employed by screen-printing companies. It has a maximum printing area of 39.5 centimeters x 49.5 centimeters (15.5 inches x 19.5 inches) and an output resolution of up to 600 dots-per-inch, making it ideal for fine photographic quality and solid colours. Its eight robust Spectra Dimatix Polaris print-heads are designed to handle 24/7 production, and integration with manual and automatic screen carousels and ovals requires no complex set-up procedures.