Kornit Digital’s latest direct-to-garment printers, the Avalanche R-series, are now being made available through Kiwo in Australia, following positive reception at C!Print in Lyon.

Kornit says the added recirculating ink system in the Avalanche R-Series saves 20 per cent of the ink and allows for faster system availability after the start-up process, while it prints up to 220 light and 160 dark garments per hour.

Kornit’s Avalanche platform is the company’s flagship direct-to-garment printing system. The new R-Series versions will replace the current systems. The capabilities of the R-Series are also available for existing Avalanche Hexa and Avalanche 1000 installations as an upgrade, says Kornit.

Designed for the mass production of garments, the Avalanche 1000 R-Series has dual pallet industrial production capability, according to Kornit. The company says double bridge architecture allows for the white and colour print phases to occur in parallel, optimising dark garment efficiency.

Kornit explains both systems feature a print area of up to 90 x 60cm and 12cm wide pass printing, while an automatic height adjustment mechanism allows printing over buttons, zippers and other protruding objects.

Guy Zimmerman, vice president of marketing and business development, Kornit Digital says “The new Avalanche R-Series is a great example how a proven flagship product can be optimized towards even higher print quality, reliability and cost efficiency and I have noticed great reception of this new concept during the beta stage.”

Garment printing is one of the fastest growing areas in print.

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