Mimaki has a heritage of printing innovation. The company began its digital textile printing journey 20 years ago, in 1998. The result was the Tx-1600S the world’s first piezoelectric textile inkjet printer, launched in 1999.

Mimaki has come a long way in the past two decades. Ronald Van Den Broek, General Manager of Sales for Mimaki Europe, stated, “What differentiates us in the market today is the breadth of our product range, not only in textiles but in conventional large format as well. In textiles, we have printers ranging from the entry level TS30-1300 to the recently introduced production level Tiger-1800B. We also support a wide range of inks to enable printing on just about any fabric type. Another differentiator for us is our well-established service network. We are in a 24/7 economy and a responsive service network is a vital element of our support infrastructure.”

Van Den Broek points out that while some printers enable changing out of ink type, most textile printers have a complete workflow in place dedicated to a specific fabric type, such as cotton or silk. “But we do have the ink range to cover basically all fabric types,” he says.