How The SPGPrints Pike Digital Textile Printer Helped A Portuguese Textile Manufacturer Service The Changing Fashion Market

PRESS ROOM

10 Aug

Written By Debbie Mckeegan

A family business founded by Noémia and Adalberto Pinto da Silva, Adalberto has been operating in the northern region of Portugal since 1969.

Initially a historically recognized textile printer, the company has successfully evolved along with the technology to achieve an international reach and scale its offering.

From design and conception to in-store delivery, Adalberto acts as a vertical hub for the development and manufacture of fashion and home textiles, with a team of 400 people across 20 countries.

With the various changes going on in the fashion industry, Aldalberto Estampados faced several challenges in trying to keep up with their customer's demands.

Adalberto Estempados found a solution in the form of SPGPrints' PIKE digital printer.

The SPGPrints Pike Digital Printer

Thanks to the large amount of fixed mounted print heads, PIKE provides the highest productivity maintaining the high 1200 dpi image quality.

It can print up to 3600 linear meters per hour, making it perfect for large run production printing.

Additionally, the PIKE is very reliable and can guarantee set production capacities and image quality.

Combining the flexibility of a digital textile printer with the familiarity and productivity of a rotary printing, the PIKE is bound to be a trustworthy addition to your printing process.

In Short, The 3 Most Important Benefits Are:

Fast Delivery
High Reliability
Design Versatility

“Two major trends are affecting us: the growth of fast-fashion and more challenging designs. SPGPrints’ PIKE printer addresses both these challenges and offers scope for future developments.” Mário Jorge Machado Former CEO Adalberto Estampados

Digital Textile Printing At Adalberto Stampado

Digital printing enabled them to start producing at a high volume with fast turnaround and produce textiles with fine details and high-quality designs.

Having the PIKE digital printer work alongside their current screen printers allowed Adalberto to resolve their challenges.

Brand owners notice the responsiveness of Adalberto to their demand and the changing fashion industry.

Working with Adalberto enables fashion brands to have their clothes in stores at a much faster notice and a higher quality than ever before.

In trying to keep up with the demands of their customers from the fashion industry, Adalberto faced some challenges that stood in their way to growth:

Efficiency
Adalberto wanted to offer new standards of quality and production efficiency to their international customer base.
Addresses the growth of fast-fashion
Over the years, fast-fashion has has revolutionized every aspect of the fashion industry. Nowadays, fashion brands want to instantly respond to emerging trends, produce small quantities of a particular design and have it in stores as quickly as possible.
Decline run-lenghts
Adalberto needed to decline run-lengths because of the frequent design changes of their customers.
Complex designs
Adalberto noticed the growing demand for more challenging designs. Fashion brands demand more colors and finer detail.
Innovation
To maintain a competitive advantage, Adalberto needed to keep up with developments in the textile industry and get ahead of their competition.

Digital printing revolutionizes the textile industry.

It can help you, like in the case of Adalberto, keep up with your customer's demands, produce more complex designs and produce at a faster rate