Textiles & Printing

Fashion, decoration, architecture, signage, outdoor displays, etc. The applications for textile printing technologies are vast and more and more markets are using personalisation techniques.

Recent innovations, whether in terms of printing media or techniques, are opening new doors.

How can we incorporate a personalised textile option into the traditional fabric production flow? What are the latest innovations for textile brands thanks to digital printing?

 

Challenges for textile and clothing brands

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Marketing challenges:

  • Easy personalisation and renewal of collections.
  • Proposal of new services to foster greater loyalty among customers and develop new ranges.


Technical challenges:

  • Enhanced and continuously improved printing and finishing quality.
  • Greatly improved production speed over recent years.
  • Optimised stock management thanks to the flexibility of new solutions which allow small production runs.
  • Reduced environmental impact (water and energy, wastage during printing tests).

 

Which markets?

Textile personalisation

It forms an integral part of the marketing strategy of brands and is a core business area for textile web-to-print sites that offer single pieces of clothing with personalised markings

>> At C!Print, 59 exhibitors offer equipment or services for digital printing, silkscreen printing, embroidery, transfers, etc.

 

Large-format textile printing

Whether it is used for sublimation or direct printing and with polyester or natural fibres, digital printing is playing an increasingly important role in the large-format textile printing sector.

Productivity improvements in recent years have changed production methods and resulted in new applications: decoration, clothing, etc.

>> At C!Print, 36 equipment manufacturers invite you to discover their new solutions!

 

A programme for textile professionals

Technical and creative workshops, didactic masterclasses, noteworthy case studies, prospective round tables, inspirational guided tours: C!Print guides textile industry professionals through a series of innovations and the latest applications.

 

The PLUG&PLAY SHOWROOM showcases textile printing

Digital printing on textiles invests in fashion and interior design

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By visiting the PLUG&PLAY product personalisation workshop, you will learn about the various production options for use with direct digital, flex heat transfer or silkscreen printing. At the trade show, you will also meet all the suppliers of digital textile printing technologies.

In the demonstration area, you will witness the dazzling advances made with large-format textile printing applied to decoration and creation of unique clothing collections.

In the 100m2 workshop, you will discover a space which has been fully personalised by textile designers and interior designers with the guidance of specialists who will present the slight differences in quality between the different inkjet and sublimation printing technologies and the results obtained on a large range of different polyester or natural fibre fabrics (cotton, linen, silk).

The space will be created in partnership with the French specialist in inkjet printing using reactive inks: Grain de Couleur.