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United States Of America : Digitally Printed Textiles To Rise 50 Percent By 2005 |
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2003-7-28 9:04:00
According to a report the digitally printed textile market is expected to grow 44 million square metres by 2005, if present trends continue.The study, "The Potential for Digital Printing of Textiles," from Web Consulting, says this growth represents an almost 50 per cent increase over the volume of digitally-printed textiles produced in the year 2000."The current rate of growth in digital textile printing is attributed to growth in the installed base of digital textile printing systems," said Michael Flippin, managing consultant of the Boston office of Web Consulting, the UK-head quartered digital printing and imaging consultancy.He adds that new, higher-speed textile solutions in the pipeline could mean these forecasts are on the conservative side.The report states that the number of dedicated digital textile printers will increase from 833 units sold worldwide in 2000 to almost 1,400 units sold worldwide in 2005.Despite an early role for thermal drop-on-demand printers, the digital textile printing market is fast becoming dominated by piezo drop-on-demand systems (over 80 per cent of units sold in 2005), with a newly developing role for very high productivity piezo and continuous inkjet systems.
Web Consulting also notes a shift in the global geographic distribution of the textile printing industry. The Far East now represents over 50 per cent of all printed textiles (not just apparel) produced, with no other region of the world claiming more than 10 per cent of production volume.
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