Digital printing is the general trend. Affected by the epidemic this year, the international economy has generally declined, but digital printing has not been greatly impacted and has a greater opportunity. It is not difficult to see the digital printing at the fashion conferences of many overseas fashion brands. Get rid of the limitations of traditional printing, the color and short process of digital printing make it easier for fashion designers to be bolder in clothing design! Global consumption upgrades, market demand changes, and the proportion of digital printing in printing is gradually increasing; the current global digital printing output value is 8-10 billion US dollars / year. The global annual production of t-shirts is about 13 billion pieces, of which 9 billion pieces need printing and 1.8 billion pieces are customized.
The current opportunities of clothing digital printing in China :
• Abundant labor resources and strong quality
• Rich in textile raw materials, one of the main cotton producing areas in the world
• Rich in clothing manufacturing technology
• Countries with strong dye and ink production capacity
• Countries with strong production capacity of printing equipment and digital printing equipment
• National policy promotion, the 13th Five-Year Plan, and China Smart Manufacturing 2025 have all raised the development of digital printing and print head technology to a high level
• IDC believes that the epidemic has accelerated the transformation of traditional printing technology to digital printing
China is the largest garment producer, garment consumer, and garment exporter in the world. At the same time, China has the most garment manufacturers in the world. Over 50% of the top 30 companies in China textile printing industry in 2019 have entered digital printing, and China will become a major producer and exporter of digital printing equipment and ink.
The challenges are clothing digital printing facing in China：
• The development of digital clothing printing in China urgently needs to upgrade core technologies, promote key technologies such as nozzles, control systems, high-end equipment manufacturing technology upgrades, strengthen software development, and strengthen original design.
• Clothing industry is facing production capacity transfer in China, Sino-US trade frictions and the weakening of labor cost advantages have prompted China to continue to carry out equipment and ink research and development, technology updates, and management enhancements, making the clothing industry retain high value-added links in the original production base after the production capacity transfer. Export equipment, ink, technical services, etc.
• Common problems in clothing printing: color, fastness, hand feel, shrinkage, environmental health, strength, etc.
The development trend of clothing digital printing：
The printing speed of 300-500 m/h will become the mainstream machine within 10 years; various nozzles coexist, EPSON, Kyocera, Seiko, Starlight, KM, and Ricoh are still the mainstream printing nozzles; digital printing and traditional printing processing costs continue to approach; China has also gradually become a major digital printing processing country and digital printing solution exporting country. Among them, dye digital printing will account for a huge proportion of printing. As for Subtextile, we also hopes to become a member of exporting Chinese digital printing solution to the world.
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