Textile transformation in large-format printing

Aiming at addressing a new generation of consumers, brands, as well as the supply chain, like many industries the textile printing market has been changing to adopt new innovative technologies. This massive industry, with over a trillion and a half dollars in annual business value in the apparel and accessories sector, is undergoing a transformation. With the digital age now an economic certainty, brands as well as textile mills must adapt. Many of these changes have evolved in the past decade as early high-speed production digital textile solutions emerged. The changes are impactful in several key areas, which extensively includes the digital large-format textile printing.

Now that it has been broadly outlined the textile transformation and the factors driving it, the textile market is changing as digital fabric printing print volume continues to grow at 19 percent CAGR (reaching about 4 billion sq m in 2022 ). With productivity and creativity trends urging companies to adapt a more flexible production schedule that prioritizes product diversity, it is only natural that improvements would come to the supply chain. With may collaborative platforms enable all the functions and processes in the creation of new paradigm in digital textile printing, there is a big transformation in the use of textile materials in production of signage and display items.