Epson announced the arrival of its first 64-head direct-to-cloth printer, the Monna Lisa ML-64000. This printer targets digital textile printing businesses who take opportunities in the fashion and home textile fields. and sportswear.
The Epson Monna Lisa was developed to address the needs of today's digital textile printing market. Delivers high productivity and expands design possibilities while minimizing energy, water, material and time use compared to conventional processes.
The ML-64000 was developed to meet the needs of the industrial textile market, supported by 64 PrecisionCore printheads to achieve the highest productivity in Epson's revolutionary direct-to-fabric printer series. It is an ideal choice for textile printing businesses as the ML-64000 meets the flexible demands of small to large orders on a wide variety of fabrics while catering to a wide spectrum of design complexities. We believe this new addition to Epson's line of digital textile printers will benefit businesses with high print quality and productivity.
The Monna Lisa ML-64000 is controlled by a new range of printheads with Epson's PrecisionCore technology. Supported with 64 new PrecisionCore printheads, the ML-64000 can achieve a maximum production print speed of 740 square meters/hour.
PrecisionCore is the latest evolution of Epson's proprietary Micro Piezo printing technology to achieve greater efficiency, quality, and reliability in Direct-to-Fabric printing.
Using conveyor thermoplastic adhesives that hold fabrics firmly and securely to avoid wrinkles and unevenness, reducing operational problems and contributing to cost savings.
There is a symmetrical color alignment which ensures a consistent order of overlapping colors. As a result, color and pattern reproduction is very uniform, and even areas with solid colors and subtle geometric patterns can be rendered beautifully while maintaining a high-quality, high-quality result.
Epson Genesta inks for ML-64000 are available in acid, reactive, dispersing and pigment formulations in degas vacuum packaging. Genesta inks have been developed by Epson in collaboration with For.Tex specifically for the Monna Lisa series, enabling precision, reliability and durability of prints on fabrics.
The exclusive vacuum degassed ink management system is designed to achieve maximum efficiency while reducing ink waste. For maximum usability, the 'Hot Swap' function of the ML-64000 allows the user to replace an exhausted 10 liter ink bag with a new one even while a printing operation is in progress.
Epson Genesta inks are ECO PASSPORT certified to meet globally recognized standards for eco-friendly textile printing. In addition, acid inks are bluesign approved, and reactive inks and pigments are GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) approved by Ecocert.
The Epson Edge Print Textile RIP software was developed in-house as part of Total Textile Solution, as a holistic customer support for Epson's own pre-treatment, printer, ink, incidental equipment, installation and services. Designed to maximize the performance of PrecisionCore printheads and Genesta inks, the Epson Edge Print Textile has an intuitive interface for easy, 3-step print job management, from left to right.
Users just need to select the files they want to print, preview the images, and choose their print settings. It can run on any Monna Lisa printer and certain versions are available based on different models.
