Discovering the next era of fashion, décor and sports apparel creation

Premier Digital Textiles (PDT) showcased its latest innovations during an insightful industry workshop that explored the future of on-demand textile production.

Premier Digital Textiles is part of the Premier Textile group along with Bancroft Soft Furnishings and Premex Solutions.

Leading experts from in design, printing technology, materials and the software and hardware fields shared their knowledge throughout the course of the one day event at Hybrid Services’ showroom in Crewe, Cheshire.

PDT’s 2396 Mesa, uniquely engineered to have a polyester or cotton face, was on show during the workshop.

Printed on the Mimaki TS100, Mesa is a polyester cotton blend fabric which has a silk look and handle.

The polyester side is suitable for dye sublimation printing and the cotton side is suitable for pigment printing.

Mesa is suited to end uses such as fashion apparel accessories, linings and soft furnishings such as cushions.

The Future of On-Demand Textile Production workshop was brilliantly hosted by Texintel’s CEO Debbie McKeegan and Mimaki’s UK and Ireland distributor, Hybrid Services.

With myself, Mitesh Patel and Toby Lunn representing PDT, we were delighted to see the new Mimaki Tiger600-1800TS in action.

The industrial dye sublimation printer boasts 550sq m/h print speeds, compact footprint and high quality results.

PDT’s REPREVE 2566 Eco Columbus, made from recycled plastic bottles, is printed on this machine.

Mitesh, our Sales Development Manager, featured on an expert panel alongside Marc Verbeem from Mimaki EMEA and Natalie Leeb from AVA CAD/CAM.

In my view the workshop was a high quality educational day that also gave like-minded professionals the opportunity to network and share knowledge

With this we have a better chance to pass the perfect product through the entire supply chain, reducing rejection, reprint.

Credit must go to Texintel, the digital textile industry’s global resource, and Mimaki’s UK and Ireland distributor, Hybrid Services for creating and executing a brilliant workshop which I’m pleased to say is also available to view online.