Kornit Digital has introduced a new series of digital inks designed for use with all of its direct-to-garment systems. The new NeoPigment Pure formulation is designed as an organic evolution of the company’s existing NeoPigment process and brings users a host of benefits including increased vivacity, an improved hand feel and a more opaque and smooth reproduction of white. The new ink also offers better wash-fastness, a longer shelf life and the likelihood of waste is vastly reduced. Once commercially available, the new inks will be able to be used with all of Kornit’s direct-to-garment printing systems in the field, without any hardware changes.
This ink comprises CMYK plus red, green and white and is formulated to supersede the company’s existing ink families by providing colour standards that are closer to ideal LAB values. Improved overall smoothness resulting in an increased gamut of more than 15 per cent is accompanied by a deeper black (K), while the white ink has greater brightness and opacity with greater coverage.
It has been designed to increase the performance of the Kornit Digital direct-to-garment systems’ printheads with faster start-up and better reliability. Guy Zimmerman, Kornit’s Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development said, “Kornit Digital’s policy is never to stand still but to continue with developments across all of its technologies in order to bring customers and new users the best pigmented ink technologies to combine with their Kornit direct-to-garment printers.”
