The new Storm Hexa at DTGUK.com with (L-R) co-founders Nick Davis and Phil Walker, and Luke Smith, Adelco
The business is the first in the UK to install the system.
The Storm Hexa meets DTGUK’s need for its new trade printing service for a high productivity direct-to-garment printer. The system, which supplements two Kornit Breeze machines at DTGUK’s new premises in Milton Keynes, was supplied by Adelco Screen Process.
‘The Kornit Storm Hexa gives us the heavy duty production levels we need with our new business model and adds the benefit of a wide gamut with its CMYK plus red and green colour palette,’ stated Nick Davis, co-director of DTGUK. ‘With the move to higher mixed volumes with our new trade service, we needed an industrial-strength platform for longer runs of personalised and versioned products.’
‘It’s also vital that we don’t want to be restricted by only printing to cottons and mixes,’ added Phil Walker, co-founder. ‘Kornit’s NeoPigment process frees us up to work with virtually all textiles without requiring specialist pre- and post-treatment routines.’
Launched at Fespa Digital 2016 in March, the Digital Storm Hexa has 16 printheads for CMYK, red, green and white ink. It can output up to 170 garments per hour.
