Printing

Possible applications of textiles can be extended enormously by adding functional surfaces. Cutting-edge printing technologies do not only enable colour design, but also exciting possibilities for the functionalisation of various textile fabrics.

We develop innovative functional printings on textiles which can be

• highly conductive
• insulating
• low conductive (heating)
• interactive
• sensitive
• magnetic
• thermochromic
• photochromic
• electrochromic

Functional printings as well as optical design require a pre- and posttreatment according to the used materials and technologies. We own a variety of lab technology to successfully manage this complex task.

The technological equipment of our printing laboratory includes classical like flat and rotary screen printing as well as digital printing like CHROMOJET TableTop.
The digital injection moulding technology of the chromojet printer is used for printing and development of certain functions on 3d fabrics such as carpets, fleeces, felts, velours and many other textile structures. The printer is a compact laboratory solution for developing new printing and coating processes using valve-nozzle technology. Thanks to its minimal space requirements, simple PC connectivity and quickly interchangeable tanks, parameters such as viscosity and penetration can be precisely optimised and directly transferred to large-scale production.

We use 3D printing technologies to combine one or several functional layers with our textiles. In order to do so, we use functionalised materials in our FDM printers (Fused Deposition Modeling) and create our own functional thermoplastic powders for modified SLS printing.