ColorJet launches Metro NXT digital textile printer at India ITME 2022

ColorJet Group has launched Metro NXT, high quality, and high-speed digital textile printer today at India ITME 2022. It is an industrial textile printer that combines the digital advantages of high speed incorporating 32 industrial-grade Kyocera print heads with high-quality print using ColorJet-recommended inks. It is available in the configuration of 8 colour options with speeds reaching up to 9,000 sqm/day.

Madhu Sudan Dadu – chairman, Arun Varshney - vice president and business head textiles business and Smarth Bansal – GM – product/brand management, ColorJet Group along with their print head partner Hironobu Fujihashi – general manager and Anshul Prashar - deputy senior marketing manager, Kyocera Asia, unveiled the high speed, high quality direct to fabric digital textile printer - Metro NXT at the event, the company said in a media release.

Madhu Sudan Dadu said, "The new Metro NXT will bring a new dimension to the existing portfolio of machines providing a highly productive solution to big textile mills, processing houses, and exporters who are looking for high production along with high precision printing."

Hironobu Fujihashi said, "I am expecting the future of digital printing for textiles. Digital printing, which uses less ink and water, is a promising technology not only for the textile industry but also for humanity as a whole, from the perspective of reducing environmental pollution and from the perspective of sustainable development goals, which are to reduce unsold and discarded textiles and produce what is needed when needed. We are very excited that the company has emerged in India that can make such a high-performance digital inkjet printer for textile application."

Metro NXT addresses various market segments such as fashion apparel (women's, men's, and kids clothing), home furnishings (curtains, bedsheets, and sofa covers), etc and can be used to print shirts, skirts, scarves, and sarees. Metro NXT prints on cotton, viscose, polyester, polyamide, silk, and wool and is suited to produce high-quality products as well as home decoration fabrics.

Visitors can see the live demo of the printer at India ITME in Hall No 5, and Booth No H5F3G4. The event is current underway at India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida.