The global printing market is mainly divided into a few areas such as North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. In recent years, North American and European printing industries affected and restricted by many factors like economic and ecological environment, gradually shifted to Asia and the Middle East countries. Due to the atrophy of the textile industry in North America, the printing industry in Latin America showed a gradual upward trend. At present, textile printing in the Asia-Pacific region accounts for more than half of total global printing, among them China and India are at the forefront of production.

      Digital inkjet textile printing technology is a product of modern science and technology applications that sets computer data processing, precision machinery, photoelectric information technology as a whole and gradually formed with the continuous development of computer technology. Digital inkjet printing of textiles began in the 1970s, completed the transition from Technical model to production application in the 90s, and got rapid development after 2000 years, experienced a transformation process from the proofing that was mainly used in the early stage of textile printing and dyeing to small lot production then to scale production.

      The amount of global textile digital inkjet printing almost doubled every two years since 2001 and presented an accelerated development trend. European digital inkjet printing always walks at the forefront of the global digital inkjet printing industry, and it is the biggest demand and place of production for Digital inkjet printing products, Digital inkjet printing has infiltrated into various areas of textiles like design, clothing, home textile, car decoration, advertising, personalization Customization, etc. Especially in recent years, it has already turned to a small lot production pattern from the Proofing design pattern in the past, and gradually to quantity production development. Currently, there are more than 90% of the enterprises in the European printing industry have adopted digital inkjet printing proofing, the production volume for digital inkjet printing products has accounted for about 30% of the whole printing products production volume. Many traditional Japanese printing plants adopt a production mode that flat screen printing, rotary screen printing and digital inkjet printing coexist, in order to use their own advantages, supplement disadvantages and expand the scope of the product. I think it’s going to be normal for the textile printing industry in the next few years.

      In China, as traditional printing is facing more and more severe competition and environmental pressure, more and more enterprises invest in digital textile printing, to the developing trend of recent years, digital textile printing will become a very important profit growth point in the textile industry in next few years by virtue of the advantages of flexible material, rich colors, can achieve high-end printing effect, Multi-species, small quantities, etc.

      As digital textile printing was restricted by its speed a few years ago, it has been used only for proofing production and likely not scale. In recent years, digital textile printing technology increasingly mature, and digital textile printing production volume has also substantial increase, the application of digital textile printing technology even turned to a trend of thousands of miles a day, and speed is no longer the bottleneck of digital textile printing. Three or four years ago, one hour print speed of 5-10 m has been considered a high speed, but now it has achieved a print speed of more than 100 square meters per hour. With the production volume improving, and these years digital textile printing costs also dropped, only the cost of ink has dropped from the original 100 yuan per square meter to 10 yuan per square meter now. With the cost reduction and the demand for product personalization, more and more companies have invested in digital textile printing in the past 3 years, and digital textile printing is becoming a hot spot for traditional printing and dyeing companies.