Koton Kraft Takes Customised Direct-To-Textile Printing To The Next Level With The Epson ML-8000 Printer
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Koton Kraft specialise in providing printed homewares for Australian small businesses and artists.
Recently the company decided to take their offering to a completely new level by purchasing the award-winning and revolutionary Epson Monna Lisa ML-8000 direct-to-fabric printer.
Their team takes great pleasure in collaborating with designers, helping them transform their artwork into exquisite textile and paper giftware ranges.
Koton Kraft Brings Unique Designs To Life On Fabric.
Whether from a designer, artist or boutique shop owner they cater to specific printing needs and create stunning, one-of-a-kind textile products.
Koton Kraft's Karan Singh Mehroke explained, "The ML-8000 makes it possible to cost efficiently print directly onto fabric and do short run customised fabric printing in Australia. This opens up many doors for artists and creatives to market their designs and garments as 100% Australian sourced, designed and printed. No need for costly offshore printing any longer. It's also an incredibly efficient machine taking only two hours to print what two of our older machines would take over ten hours to print. This means major cost savings within the production process."
Koton Kraft's purchase of the Epson ML-8000 printer came from basic commercial requirements and the desire to grow their business as Mehroke explained, "Artists needed a faster turnaround on their orders. They demanded higher quality products printed on a wider variety of materials and a machine that could make colours pop. The finished products also needed to do justice to their art. In addition, we were looking to grow our business into new areas whilst reducing our costs and making the production process easier for our machine operators. After doing a full assessment and review of all available options we concluded there was only one printer that meets all of these requirements and that is the Epson ML-8000."
Koton Kraft Also Had Strict Production Requirements
Built around colour vibrancy, speed of output, the ability to handle diverse materials and roll to roll fabric, print quality, ease of use and agreeable ergonomics.
Mehroke added, "The Epson ML-8000 printer is an 8-colour machine that is easy to use and requires very little maintenance. There is reduced wastage of media compared to existing printing machines and the colours are great on finished products. We print our designs onto fabric and cut out our products as per order specs. The ML-8000 not only enables us to test and prototype new ranges of products for clients, but when we do the artwork looks amazing due to its superior print quality."
Typical projects Koton Kraft use the ML-8000 printer for include napery, yardage, home textiles and fashionwear. For each of these artists brief the company on their concept and colour choices leaving Koton Kraft to select the appropriate colour profiling.
Karan Singh Mehroke concluded, "The Epson ML-8000 printer has exceeded our and our customers' expectations in terms of quality, vibrancy in print, superior image sharpness and speed and efficiency of production. It has allowed us to promote Australian artists and designers and enabled us to grow and take our business to the next level by expanding into different areas."
About Epson
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The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle.
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