Digital Printing of Clothes Drawing Attention in Japan

Tokyo, July 16 (Jiji Press)–Digital printing of garments, through which inkjet printers are used so as to add shade and patterns to cloth, is drawing consideration within the attire business in Japan as an environmentally pleasant different to present clothes manufacturing strategies.

Digital printing permits small-quantity manufacturing and caters to clients’ tastes extra exactly. It additionally consumes much less water, thus easing the burden on the atmosphere.

The unfold of digital printing might change the prevailing business norm through which garments are typically mass-produced to decrease prices, business specialists say.

Epson Gross sales Japan Corp., a subsidiary of main printer maker Seiko Epson Corp., is conducting an indication experiment on stockless manufacturing along with attire maker Sanyo Shokai Ltd., Avail Corp., which develops software program for attire corporations, and attire enterprise agency Fukule Inc.

The experiment affords custom-ordered T-shirts of Spanish clothes model Ecoalf, offered in Japan by Sanyo Shokai. As soon as clients enter info corresponding to their gender and physique dimension into a tool and select the colour and sample of pockets, they will see a 3D fitted picture on the show.

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