Epson Highlights Answers For Textile Printing, Label Printing, And Paper Upcycling As It Opens Three New Solution Centres At Its Hirooka Office
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Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, "Epson") has opened a new Direct To Fabric Solution Center, Label Press Solution Center, and PaperLab Solution Center at its Hirooka Office in Shiojiri, Japan.
About Epson's Hirooka Office
The Hirooka Office is the heart of Epson's printing solutions business.
It serves as a center for administration, core device research and development, and production. As such, it works closely with Epson's global sales and production sites.
It shares the advanced production technology and know-how it gains through the development and production of core devices with Epson's overseas sites to help maximize manufacturing capabilities across the Epson Group.
In June 2018, Epson completed construction on Building 9, a facility for manufacturing PrecisionCore print chips.
Now, with Innovation Center Building B, Epson has further strengthened its printing solutions R&D and production capacity and will accelerate actions to expand the business.
The Advance Of Inkjets In Commercial And Industrial Printing
Digitization is steadily advancing in the commercial and industrial printing markets, where the demand for design diversity is driving the spread of short-run production.
Here, Epson has designated the signage, textile, and label printing segments as growth markets where there is ample room for digitization and expansion.
Epson sees textile printing, label printing, and other segments of the commercial and industrial printing markets as growth areas.
The company also is pursuing environmental initiatives in line with its corporate vision, Epson 25 Renewed.
The three new solution centers, like the existing Large Format Print Solution Center at the Hirooka Office, will give prospective customers a chance to experience an Epson solution first-hand.
Direct To Fabric Solution Center
The DTF Solution Center is replete with samples of printed textiles used in the fashion world. These samples demonstrate the high quality of print that can be achieved.
What to see
A Monna Lisa ML-64000, the flagship model in Epson's line of digital inkjet textile printers, and a ML-8000, an entry-level model suited for short-run production
Textile samples printed on materials such as silk and cotton
A space where visitors can see how the look of textiles varies depending on the day, evening, and shade conditions that are reproduced by changing the color temperature and direction of lighting
Interior with an Italian theme, a nod to one of the world's greatest centers of the textile printing industry
Label Press Solution Center
Visitors to the Label Press Solution Center can experience first-hand an automated label printing workflow.
Print samples show how sharp and fine label print quality can be.
What to see
A SurePress L-4733AW digital label press with a water-based ink set and a SurePress L-6534VW digital label press with a UV ink set
A demonstration of an in-line solution with pre- and post-processing equipment and a labor-saving automated printing process
Variable printing samples that demonstrate the uniqueness of a digital process
A clean printing environment that can only be achieved with a digital process, shown in juxtaposition to a conventional analog label printing process, in a white, bright space that offers a glimpse of what printing factories will look like in the near future
PaperLab Solution Center
Visitors to the PaperLab Solution Center can see the process by which new paper is produced from used paper.
What to see
PaperLab A-8000, an office papermaking system that utilizes Epson's Dry Fiber Technology to defibrate used paper in an essentially waterless process*
Physical samples of paper produced by a PaperLab A-8000 as well as examples of recycled paper and dry fiber technology applications
Projection mapping on the floor and PaperLab make it appear as if the system looms into view from the darkness
Epson will accelerate the digitalization of commercial and industrial printing to raise productivity and provide high print quality while also closing resource loops and pursuing other environmental initiatives.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information.
The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle.
Epson will become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion.
