Textile Printing Systems
DIRECT INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM
MÜPRINT MDP SERIES
For the contactless bleed-off printing of narrow fabrics.
As early as 2011, Jakob Müller introduced the MÜPRINT MDP2, the world's first system for the direct printing of tapes using sublimation inks. The MÜPRINT MDP2 was able to carry out the contactless, direct printing of up to 16 polyester tapes with a total width of 400 mm and, using an integrated thermofixing process, manufacture a product suitable for immediate sale, fulfilling demands in abrasion resistance and colour fastness, as well as textile standards (OEKO-TEX®).
As opposed to transfer and screen printing, thedirect printing of textile tapes using digital ink jettechnology offers a wealth of advantages:
- Quick and inexpensive ad-hoc production of printed tape patterns
- Print-on-demand from digital designs to just-tape in-time production, short reaction period
- Brief changeover times and fast article switches
- Single-process, continuous production with a limited operator requirement
- Contactless, direct printing that is suitable for use with open fabrics or tapes with uneven or alternating thicknesses (chiffon, velvet, knits, hook and loop, zips, nets)
- Excellent wash fastness and abrasion resistance
- Bleed off printing over the tape edge
- Any repeat lengths and endless printing
- Employment of variable data from Excel or text files for personalised / individualised printing or serial numbers
- Photorealistic printing
- No costs for printing forms, storage, cleaning or transfer paper
- High levels of reproducibility without resetting as in screen or flexographic printing
- High ink yield
- “Texprint” RIP software for the transfer of design/photo files, printing layouts and colour adjustments to the textile materials
- Supplementary software: variable data and the creation of printing profiles for specific materials in order to create maximum printout reproducibility
- Software modules for the independent creation of colour profiles; available with or without a photo-spectrometer
- Portable, ultrasonic tape welder device for tape linkage
| MÜPRINT MDP2 | MÜPRINT MDP2E | MÜPRINT MDP3E | |
| Printing process | Inkjet piezoelectric / contactless / roll-to-roll | Inkjet piezoelectric / contactless / box-to-box | Inkjet piezoelectric / contactless / box-to-box |
| Min. / max. ribbon width | 15 mm / 400 mm | 8 mm / 400 mm | 8 mm / 410 mm |
| Max. number of ribbons | 16 | 10 | 2 x 10 |
| Printable substrates | Polyester wovens, nonwovens, knitware | Elastic ribbons with rubber, Elasthan and woven / knitted surface of polyester | Elastic ribbons with rubber, Elasthan and woven / knitted surface of polyester |
| Print job preparation and transfer to printer | MDP RIP Software | MDP RIP Software | MDP RIP Software |
| Print process colours | MDP2 inks; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black | MDP2 inks; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black | MDP2 inks; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black |
| Heat setting of thermal fixation | Integrated system; temperatures up to 200°C | Integrated system hot air and infrared; temperatures up to 200°C | Integrated system hot air and infrared; temperatures up to 200°C |