DuPont Ink Jet today announced that Makro Art AG has purchased the new grand format DuPont™ Artistri™ 3320 textile printing system for its Zurich, Switzerland, manufacturing location.
“We purchased the Artistri™ 3320 system to enhance our capabilities in producing grand format advertising banners, trade show displays, interior signage and other commercial textile printing applications where we can utilize the systems 3.3 meter wide format,” stated Franz Bussmann, managing director, Makro Art AG. He added, “This system allows Makro Art to produce beautiful, wide format displays and banners cost competitively and at superior quality levels versus conventional screening processes.”
Makro Art AG, has multiple locations in Switzerland and prints a diverse line of digitally produced display elements including vehicle wraps, trade show booth displays, jumbo building wraps, interior displays, signage and structures for promotional events and banners for a variety of commercial applications.
“Artistri™ is the culmination of DuPont expertise in synthetic textile fiber and digital ink development,” commented Kathleen Hall, global business director, DuPont™ Artistri™. “The 3320 is our response to requests from customers and the industry for a grand format production capable printing system for a broad range of textiles,” Hall added. “We are very pleased to have Makro Art as our first graphics customer for this new system.”
Introduced at FESPA Digital Printing Europe 2006, the Artistri™ 3320 textile printing system is a fully-integrated production capable offering based on the successful Artistri™ 2020 printing system platform and Artistri™ inks and software for the textile marketplace. This grand format digital printing system is designed for applications such as bedding, interior textiles, tradeshow banners, point-of-sale and grand format banners.
For more information on DuPont™ Artistri™ digital printing for textiles, contact DuPont on 877-234-1794 (US), 65-6586-3699 (Asia), 39-02-2530-2657 (Europe). Or, visit: www.artistri.dupont.com .
For more information on Makro Art AG regarding products and services, contact them at www.makroart.ch or call them at 41 41 984 11 88.
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