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Dundee based Tayprint has implemented the Kornit Avalanche HD6 system for efficient, versatile direct to garment (DTG) apparel production on-demand. This technology effectively replaces the use of screen printing within its operation, reducing the cost per print while making short runs profitable, eliminating inventory and resource waste, speeding production, and ensuring nearly unlimited design capabilities, applied to a broad array of materials, using a single eco friendly ink set.
While Tayprint predominantly serves as a provider of large format digital printing, delivering approximately 500,000 square metres of imprinted product annually, it had established a screen printing operation, as well, generating roughly £200,000 in t-shirt sales per year. While this provided a strong profit channel, screens offered limited growth potential, as order volumes were shrinking, customers demanded quick turnaround, graphic capabilities were limited, and setting up was a drain on both labour and materials. Each of these drawbacks are addressed by Kornit’s on-demand digital production technology, which enables suppliers to imprint apparel in any quantity, using a single step process, completing the process in mere minutes.
‘Screens were no longer economical, and Kornit provided the reliable, robust solution and support we needed,’ said James Miller, general manager at Tayprint. ‘The finished garment has terrific hand feel, for a better product that is easy to sell to our customers. With this fast, efficient digital technology in place, we expect to expand this part of our business, and have produced a model to integrate with online business start ups, which would have been a poor fit for screen based print operations.’
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