Mouvent to showcase TX801 at ShanghaiTex 2017

A groundbreaking 8-color digital textile printer

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Simon Rothen, chief executive officer, Mouvent

Mouvent, a new company focused on digital print using pioneering digital technology, is making its textile exhibition debut at ShanghaiTex 2017, from 27-30 November, in Shanghai. This will be the company’s first public appearance in China and its first global trade show demonstrating the TX801 – an 8-color multi-pass digital textile printer producing the highest print quality on textiles with up to 2,000 dpi optical resolution, associated with high printing speeds.

There will be four live demonstrations each day of the TX801 at the Mouvent stand G01, Hall W5.

“We are very excited, thankful and honored to be in China showcasing our game-changing digital textile printing solutions,” said Simon Rothen, chief executive officer of Mouvent. “We believe our innovations directly meet the current market demand for highly reliable industrial digital printing on different substrates at a competitive cost. We are confident the TX801 will make a lasting impression on attendees at ShanghaiTex.”

The TX801 prints with up to 8 colors and, even though it is a scanning type machine, up to 50% of the print jobs can be completed in a single pass, boosting productivity up to 200 sq. m/h without compromising on quality. In order to reach those levels of productivity, the TX801 utilizes an ingenious, very compact proprietary print engine development based on the MouventTM Cluster Technology, integrating Fujifilm’s Samba print heads. This is associated with speed, precision and scalability, deploying up to 16 g/sq. m of ink in a single pass. And thanks to the MouventTM Cluster Technology, the TX801 prints with an optical resolution of up to 2,000 dpi, resulting in the very highest print quality of the finished product. The machine can process knitted, woven and non-woven textiles with a maximum fabric width of 1,820 mm with roll diameters of up to 400 mm.

“China is, and always will be, at the absolute center of the global textile industry,” said Ghislain Segard, marketing and sales manager, Textile Machines at Mouvent. “To be able to demonstrate our innovative technology here is a huge honor for us and we are very enthusiastic about this opportunity.”

As well as enabling crisp, colorful, very high printing quality in a cost-effective way for short to medium print runs on a wide range of textile materials, the TX801 is a very durable, compact and accessible printer.

“The TX801 also has a very competitive price performance ratio compared with basic digital printers, but with unrivaled print quality,” said Paul Yuen, Digital Textile Solution, Mouvent’s cooperative partner for China. “We believe it will change the face of digital textile printing, and it is a privilege for me to be able to carry Mouvent and this technology in such an important market as China. Building up a strong and reliable Mouvent support team serving customers in China is an important mission to which we are more than 100% committed.”

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.

The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

– Naresh Khanna

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