For the second year in succession, Kornit Digital and the NY Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) are collaborating in a project that involves design and digital print to fabrics.
This project is focused on encouraging students at the State University of New York to create their own original designs that relate to the concept of sustainable, local, short-run production. With each design printed on the Kornit Allegro roll-to-roll textile system using Kornit’s NeoPigment ink, the three overall winners of the challenge will have their fabrics replicated as fashion items that feature strong eco-awareness and demonstrate how it can be successfully incorporated in the reproduction of greener garments.
The uniqueness of this project is that it enables designers to materialise their designs on any fabric on an immediate basis with no minimum yardage requirements, and at the highest industrial print quality and standards.
By having their designs printed on the single step Kornit Allegro industrial print solution that removes the requirement for pre- and post-treatment, students gain a strong insight into environmentally friendly production methods that don’t compromise on design concepts and use of color. The Allegro is the only one-step printing process technology which is ideal for the trending on demand, close to market, short run local production and sampling. Additionally, the students are able to appreciate the differences between digital and analogue production processes and how their work in the future can influence greener productivity with lower levels of energy consumption and waste creation.
“Our collaboration with FIT demonstrates an important example of how Kornit Digital can nurture the growth and developing expertise of tomorrow’s designers with the help of state-of-the-art technologies that are changing the way creativity is brought to life across all fabric types. The Kornit Allegro is the perfect system for this scenario with its truly sustainable production methods enabling designers and manufacturers to generate their concepts from start to finish in the shortest cycle time,” said Merav Zimmerman, Kornit’s product marketing manager for the Allegro. “We are proud to continue this collaboration with FIT and we certainly plan to continue with it in future years as greater awareness increases both the need for versatility in high quality digital print and greener working practices. The creative potential of talented students will continue to be encouraged, with the Kornit Allegro’s ability to enable easy, local and fast production of designs that bring ideas to reality without compromise.”