FOREST DIGITAL OF EAST SUSSEX SAY THAT THEIR EPSON MONNA LISA EVO TRE IS A MASTERPIECE IN DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING
Forest Digital a high quality bespoke digital textile printer based in the UK say - “The Epson Monna Lisa Evo Tre, is a masterpiece in Digital Textile Printing, offering sustainable, high quality textile printing at speed.” - Forest Digital
Forest Digital’s of East Sussex’ commitment to the environment runs deep – from the inks and fabrics they use through their latest technology printers right down to the waste they produce.
At every stage and in every way of their printing process Forest Digital minimise their companies ecological impact on the planet. They choose digital printing at Forest Digital - certain of their sustainable solutions - and high eco-standards.
Working with top-end designers to create exclusive short runs also means the fabrics printed at Forest Digital are not contributing to the ‘cheap-throw-away fashion’ landfill that is so damaging to our world.
2020 has been a tough year for many and Forest Digital have had their challenges but their year has been made so much smoother by their incredible fabric-printing machine, Epson’s Monna Lisa Evo Tre. Their state of the art printer enables them to digitally print textiles accurately, beautifully and with minimum impact on the environment.
The Monna Lisa hails from Como, the Italian district renowned for its century-old high quality silk manufacturing tradition. Here, in the early noughties, a partnership between electronics company Epson, machine manufacturers Fratelli Robustelli and ink innovators For.Tex led to the creation of the Monna Lisa – a digital fabric printer that revolutionised textile printing, fabrics and the fashion world.
THE Perfect Print
Since then the machines have been constantly updated, increasing their speed and productivity so that the fabrics printed on a Monna Lisa are flawless. Most of the world’s famous high fashion brands have their fabrics printed on a Monna Lisa – no other machine in the digital fabric printing industry comes close.
But it’s not just well-established and world renowned fashionistas that benefit from the Monna Lisa, it’s also small emerging brands as the machine is not just perfect for large scale, high speed production but it can also produce small run on-demand sample printing.
Precision Core Technology
Using Epson precision core technology in the print heads, the Monna Lisa produces a high quality, perfectly defined print and works individually with each type of fabric from silks to satins, cottons, stretchy fabrics and more besides. It’s also super quick – the machine works swiftly and accurately in a short time frame – days rather than months – so that lead times are down and designers can receive their fabric quickly.
Printing That Doesn’t Harm The Environment
Really importantly, the machine has significant benefits for our precious environment. It saves water – up to 75% more than other printing methods and uses only 40% of the energy usually needed – more than halving the carbon footprint of fabric printing. Plus there’s a huge reduction in the use of chemicals both before and after the fabric is printed.
Forest Digital are not producing fabrics that poison the planet – however beautiful a fabric looks, it is ugly to us if it damages our world.
The modern, earth-friendly way that the Monna Lisa works with inks is also really impressive. The inks are vacuumed packed and applied with high pressure so that not one drop is wasted. Multi inkjets offer an infinite array of colours allowing designers to create their unique designs with no colour limitation so they never have to compromise on creativity.
Most importantly, Forest Digital use solvent-free water-based inks that carry the prestigious OEKO-Tex Standard 100 certificate. This certification guarantees that inks do not contain harmful substances, going beyond national and international standards to protect the environment.
The inks have also been approved by ECOCERT, certifier for GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard). GOTS is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibres, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain.
And, last but not least, Forest Digital are approved by bluesign® as a sustainable textile producer, this means their final textile product meets very stringent consumer safety requirements worldwide and proves to the consumer that they are acquiring a sustainable product.
