Kornit Digital launches Avalanche R-Series of textile printers with ink recirculation system

Kornit Digital, a global market leader in digital textile printing technology, has launched its new Avalanche R-Series with an ink recirculation system. Kornit’s Avalanche platform is the company’s flagship direct-to-garment printing system. The two most recent configurations were the Avalanche Hexa with six-colour-plus-white ink support, and the Avalanche 1000 that was designed for speed. Both systems are now available in a new ‘R-Series’ version, with a recirculating ink system as the primary innovation. This technology, which Kornit already uses in its Storm series (the Allegro and the Vulcan), optimizes print quality, reliability and ink efficiency. As a result, users of the Avalanche R-Series will benefit from up to a 20% ink savings and faster system availability after the start-up process, said the OEM. The new R-Series versions will replace the current systems. The capabilities of the R-Series are also currently available for existing Avalanche Hexa and Avalanche 1000 installations as an upgrade.
The Kornit Avalanche Hexa R-Series includes six colour channels plus white, for a wider colour gamut and improved spot-colour handling. Users can easily reproduce the true colours of licensed sports teams and accurately match corporate logos with fiery reds, warm yellows, deep blues and greens, vivid purples and many more, said Kornit. Designed for the mass production of garments, Kornit’s Avalanche 1000 R-Series has dual pallet industrial production capabilities, and is designed for heavy-duty use. Because of its unique double-bridge architecture, the white and the colour print phases can occur in parallel, for optimized and unique dark garment efficiency. The system prints up to 220 light and 160 dark garments per hour. The Avalanche 1000 R-Series is ideal for all-day, high-volume use. Both systems feature a print area of up to 90 cm x 60 cm and 12 cm wide pass printing. Also, an automatic height adjustment mechanism allows printing over buttons, zippers and other protruding objects.

With its NeoPigment process, Kornit users benefit from the advantages of state-of-the art pigment ink technology, based on more than 1,200 installations globally and 14 years of experience, said the company. NeoPigment also meets strict environmental regulations, including Oeko-Tex Standard 100 and GOTS pre-approval. NeoPigment prints have an excellent hand feel, a wide gamut of bright and intense colours, as well as long-term durability and wash fastness. “Kornit keeps innovating on all fronts,” said Guy Zimmerman, Kornit Digital’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. “The new Avalanche R-Series is a great example how a proven flagship product can be optimized towards even higher print quality, reliability and cost efficiency – and have noticed great reception of this new concept during the beta stage.”