Surat based KITL (Kothari Info-Tech Ltd.) showcased an indigenously manufactured advanced colour management and Raster Image Processing software for digital textile printing developed for the most demanding workflows in the digital textile printing environment. For workflows starting from the colour-separated files, it takes care of engraving, colour-ways/matching to simulation of production proofs on digital textile printer and for the ones involving small lots, starting with RGB/CMYK/LAB image composites; it also takes care of true to life reproduction of designs on the fabric.
Print Pro significantly simplifies the task of digital proofing a design on the inkjet printer. One can proof colour separated designs targeted for conventional printing without actually engraving a single screen. Print Pro colour proofs the job by doing step ‘n’ repeat, screening and then combining the output into a colour composite before outputting on the printer. All one needs to do is assign screening parameters to each screen.
Print Pro offers about 34 traditional dots, error diffusion and gray scale file based half-toning function. Print Pro also offers stochastic screens for moiré free reproduction. For rotary screen there is special honeycomb dot. “Any amount of RAM is never enough for handling them. Print Pro answers this problem with the help of advanced memory manager that transparently works to use hard disk as scratch space to keep images and available RAM only as cache to perform operations,” says Ankit Maheshwari, Director, Kothari Info-Tech Limited.
Not only into developing software solutions, KITL has also developed water based reactive inks, Charu™ inks and pre-treatment solutions, Disha™ coatings, that will work on variety of textile substrates targeted towards roll-to-roll digital textile printing. Charu™ reactive series is available for Epson, Kyocera, Ricoh, Seiko and Spectra type print heads. The coatings with the inks are compatible with cotton, viscose, silk, linen and blends.
