Avalanche receives upgrade for higher reliability

IndPrint

Kornit Digital has announced the launch of its new Avalanche R-Series with ink recirculation system.

The Avalanche platform is the company’s flagship direct to garment printing system. The two most recent configurations were the Avalanche Hexa with six colour plus white support and the Avalanche 1000 which has been designed for uncompromised speed.

Both systems are commercially available now in a new ‘R-Series’ version, with a recirculating ink system as the primary innovation. This technology, which Kornit already uses in the Storm series, the Allegro and the Vulcan, optimises print quality, reliability and ink efficiency of the new Avalanches. As a result, users of the Avalanche R-Series benefit from up to 20% ink savings and faster system availability after the start up process.

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.

The Avalanche Hexa R-Series includes six colour channels plus white, for a wider gamut and improved spot colour handling. Users can easily reproduce the true colours of licensed sports teams and accurately match corporate logos with fiery reds, warm yellows, deep blues and greens, vivid purples and many more.

Designed for the mass production of garments, the Avalanche 1000 R-Series has dual pallet industrial production capability, and is a robust platform designed for heavy duty use. Thanks to a double bridge architecture, the white and the colour print phases can happen in parallel, for optimised and unique dark garment efficiency. The system generates very high speeds and excellent print quality. It prints up to 220 light and 160 dark garments per hour. The 1000 R-Series is perfectly suited to be used all day, every day and for all volumes.

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

With the NeoPigment process, Kornit users benefit from the advantages of pigment ink technology based on more than 1200 installations globally and 14 years of experience. NeoPigment meets the highest environmental regulations, including Oeko-Tex Standard 100 and GOTS pre-approval.

‘Kornit keeps innovating on all fronts,’ stated Guy Zimmerman, Kornit Digital’s vice president of Marketing and Business Development. ‘The new Avalanche R-Series is a great example how a proven flagship product can be optimised towards even higher print quality, reliability and cost efficiency and have noticed great reception of this new concept during the beta stage.’