Kyocera Inkjet Textile Printer With Virtually Zero Water Use

Japanese company Kyocera Corporation has recently launched Forearth, a new inkjet textile printer that aims to virtually remove use of all water from textile fabric printing.

In conventional inkjet printers, general, textile printing uses and requires a large amount of water for the pre and post-treatment processes, such as steaming and washing.

While, Forearth is an all-in-one printing system that uses new proprietary pigment, pre-treatment liquid, and finishing agent, which are constantly discharged in the same sequence from the inkjet head.

“This system eliminates the pre-and post-processes required of conventional dye printing and reduces the water consumption of textile printing by 99%,” the company said.

“Also, this new printing solution contributes to reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions because it does not need large-scale equipment used for the pre and post-treatment processes of textile printing,” Kyocera added.

The Forearth dramatically reduces water usage in textile printing, while the proprietary pigment ink offers both, soft hand-feel prints and high fastness in a wide range of fabrics.

Since fabric printing does not rely on water resources, it offers optimised production volumes and optimised manufacturing location setting, thereby contributing to reduction of logistic costs, time, and excess inventories.