Kornit Paradigm shown in my plant.

[Maxie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XEpcU5eDmM

This is a link to a short Kornit made in my plant showing the Paradigm printer.

[Inkworks]

Very cool, what's retail on that bad boy?

[blue moon]

Very cool!

Pierre

[ericheartsu]

that video was insane.

[Maxie]

I don't know what it cost retail, I got mine as a Beta from the factory.
I got a really good deal because they needed to test it on a carousel, it works with my MHM instead on one of the heads.
It's a amazing machine but designed for big production.       In Europe it's used by printers working for brand names doing big runs.

[Binkspot]

That's pretty dam slick.

Is there any problems with head strikes or a sensor to prevent them. I would assume after a bunch of garments the lint would build up on the pallet and at the very least change the head clearance. Not knocking the thing just curious.   

[bimmridder]

Saw this running at SGIA. Didn't have enough time to take a good look at it, but it does look nice. Opens up some doors.

[Maxie]

The print head moves back (out of the way) before the carousel turns.    It's not that close that lint will effect it, the pallets have to be level.
The head can be raised for fleece.

[GraphicDisorder]

The print head moves back (out of the way) before the carousel turns.    It's not that close that lint will effect it, the pallets have to be level.
The head can be raised for fleece.

Whats the max speed you can run dz per hour on something like this?

[Sbrem]

Very cool to see it work; seems a little slow compared to normal production, but the high margin that can be had seems to make it worth it...

Steve

[Gilligan]

Very cool to see it work; seems a little slow compared to normal production, but the high margin that can be had seems to make it worth it...

Steve

And your 6-10 color machine just became a million color press.

[BorisB]

Very cool to see it work; seems a little slow compared to normal production, but the high margin that can be had seems to make it worth it...

Steve

And your 6-10 color machine just became a million color press.

isn't any 6-10 color machine million color press already? You can print CMYK also without DTG add on

[Gilligan]

But this thing can lay down a rich full color graphic on darks with screen printing an under base first.  Can even lay heavy/rich spot colors on top/around the DTG image.

Obviously I'm sure Maxie isn't running 4 color jobs with this thing and is reserving it for when needed.  Like being revolver mode but he's adding colors vs flash stations.

[alan802]

I think you can expect to get 1-3 garments per minute depending on the complexity of the design.  I can see some smaller prints being faster and perhaps you could squeeze 4-5 per minute which would be unbelievable.  I know that many years ago, for me at least, when I first started in this industry I was being sold on the old T-jet machines at the ISS Ft Worth show and I left that show thinking DTG would be WAY, WAY, WAY further along than it is today.  My father-in-law was very interested in the DTG and one of my first tasks when I started here was to research the validity of the claims by the T-jet salesman and to figure out if this was something that we could use.  That was when I found the first industry forum I participated in and as they say...the rest is history.  It obviously didn't take long to figure out what the deal was and I don't want to muddy this awesome thread up with all of my hot industry takes on the past, present and future of DTG.

This latest combination is finally something that I could see being versatile in that it could work in many more shops than it could in it's former state as a stand-alone unit.  For many years I thought the only DTG I would invest in was the Brother for light colored garments because that thing is/was a workhorse for so many shops.  I really like this Kornit machine and how it's being integrated into an auto and I'd love to see some additional video on how/what/when/where it all comes together and works.

[tancehughes]

This is truly the first DTG machine that I've been really interested in. If I'm correct, it runs $110,000.

Maxie (or anyone else that may know) how smooth does the white under base have to be to get a solid print on top of it? Obviously we all want smooth clean prints, but I'm concerned about some peaks and valleys that could cause issues with the top color laying down correctly (such as white dots where they shouldn't be).

Now if we can just get it to run faster and be priced cheaper...