Development Trend of Carpet Digital Printing Technology

Finishing Equipments

Special processing equipment for increasing color penetration for special product, e.g. with microfiber yarn.

The color fixing and drying equipment, such as the steamer and dyer, has a compact size design trend.

Under the strict requirements of energy saving and emission reduction, equipment such as pre-washing and steaming needs to be water recycled, and drying equipment needs to reduce the consumption of heat and electricity through energy-saving design.

For continuous single-piece carpet digital printing, in order to greatly increase production efficiency, it is necessary to develop and equip intelligent positioning robots for placing and collecting carpets.

High-speed ONE PASS Digital Printer Applied to Narrow- Carpets

In addition to the customized production model, the low-cost mass production model is still one of the development directions. ONE PASS digital printer has the features of no less than 30 meters per minute speed, but due to the cost of the print head, it is currently more suitable for the high-speed digital printing production of narrow- carpets, such as carpet tiles. But at the same time, the design and use of high-speed color fixing equipment must be solved.

Intelligent Technology Based on High-speed Internet

On-line remote diagnosis technology for equipment faults still needs to be further studied and improved.

Online remote training and technical exchange based on technical database.

The sensor-based production big data collection and analysis decision-making system can reduce or even eliminate the inventory of raw materials and finished products, improve the efficiency of production information distribution and product quality, and improve the customer's consumption experience.

Currently Controversial Technology Development Trends:

One printer is equipped with two types of ink:

This solution has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are mainly reflected in the flexibility to deal with different yarns. The disadvantages are the loss of production capacity, low investment-cost effectiveness and high process switching error rate. In the future, whether to consider the development of rapid ink switching system and a single-dual use color fixing equipment, without loss of production capacity and damage to the print head.

Digital⁺ Solution(flat screen, round screen, color paste jet):

The current digital⁺ solution in the textile industry has not been promoted smoothly. The main reason is that it is difficult to find a balance in the distribution of color channels.

Water-based pigment ink printing:

Water-based pigment ink printing has the advantages of good environmental protection, short process, low equipment investment, but also has some pending issues, such as insufficient rubbing fastness, high ink cost, large ink consumption, and difficulty in penetrating. Whether it can become the mainstream development direction of carpet printing in the future remains to be seen.