Today, anyone looking to produce high-performance, affordable, attractive furniture and furnishing accessories simply has to have an industrial digital printing machine.
End consumers, in fact, have increasingly high expectations, so finished products need to guarantee the highest quality, which also means resistance to abrasion and scratches. On the other hand, coating and finishing trends are generating new ‘cross-contaminations’ and material mixes, so those manufacturers who can leverage flexibility (i.e. respond quickly to changing trends) will be the ones to gain the greatest competitive advantage in this scenario.
But how best to combine aesthetics, practicality and strength while delivering a multiplicity of opportunities, even with small batches? What’s needed is an integrated, comprehensive, flexible solution. That’s why, today, an industrial digital printing machine should be central to coating processes, not just on furniture, furnishing components and frames, but also edges, skirting boards and profiles.
But how best to combine aesthetics, practicality and strength while delivering a multiplicity of opportunities, even with small batches? What’s needed is an integrated, comprehensive, flexible solution. That’s why, today, an industrial digital printing machine should be central to coating processes, not just on furniture, furnishing components and frames, but also edges, skirting boards and profiles.
More specifically, introducing an industrial digital printing machine delivers 5 key advantages:
- Flexibility in the face of changing aesthetic trends and fashion
- Less time, less stock and fewer semi-finished goods are needed
- Less equipment is required on your production line
- Fast line set-ups and a rapid response to market demand
- A highly customised, high-quality, durable product range
Which industries benefit the most from installing a digital printing machine?
It should come as no surprise that industrial digital printing technology is currently in the spotlight across multiple manufacturing sectors. Entrepreneurs all over the world are discovering its potential in their specific fields: and those who have yet to adopt it risk being left behind.
Wood, plastic, packaging, metal, ceramic, fibre cement: digital printing can be used on a vast range of materials to create new outlets and open up new frontiers, all thanks to the flexibility and customisation provided by industrial digital printing machines.
For example, this solution is particularly appreciated by furniture makers, door and window manufacturers and companies that provide wall linings and floorings, yet also producers of plastic, aluminium and fibre cement skirting boards, profiles and sidings/claddings.
Industrial digital printing machine: a major advantage in the furniture sector
For furniture manufacturers in particular, an industrial digital printing machine lets them:
- Program production of panels, furniture components, doors and floors in an extremely competitive, flexible manner.
- Reduce stock of both finished and pre-finished products, and equipment.
- Quickly produce edges that perfectly reproduce the patterns of the panels to which they will be applied.
- Produce skirting boards/profiles with outstanding flexibility, reproducing the patterns present on the floors to which they will be coupled.
- Produce sidings or claddings and decorate them, allowing you to make, ever-more economically, modular solutions on building sites, products that are highly appealing and suitable alternatives to other types of coverings.
Such opportunities translate into three clear advantages of digital printing in the manufacturing sector. To be specific, installing an industrial digital printing machine in the company lets you:
- Obtain flexible, increasingly competitive production cycles.
- Respond quickly to aesthetic/fashion trends thanks to the fast set-up of the various lines.
- Produce aesthetically appealing, economically sustainable products.
Selecting the most suitable industrial digital printing machine
Individual companies have their own specific needs and requirements. This depends not just on the markets where they operate, but also their own entrepreneurial and strategic decisions. This is why it’s essential to choose an industrial digital printing machine with characteristics that are consistent with your aims.
The best choice? Go for a highly configurable product and set it up to match your business goals.
And that’s exactly what you can do in the Cefla Finishing Lab, an ‘innovation incubator’ that creates a customised vision... and the solution to match. In the Imola facility - as in Charlotte, USA, and Tianjin, China - customers and industrial partners can personally run dozens of tests on new products. They can test the latest technologies and verify the performance of the proposed machines via in-the-field trials, allowing them to identify the configurations that best suit their needs.
This Cefla Finishing service means that, even before purchasing an industrial digital printing machine, potential buyers can:
- Assess their own needs
- Define the available budget
- Compare the different technologies
- Evaluate the technical characteristics of the machines
J-Print SP and the other Cefla digital printing solutions
Cefla Finishing customers looking to focus on advanced digital printing can count on several solutions, the most representative of them perhaps being J-Print SP.
This series of single-pass printers integrates seamlessly with all Cefla Finishing machines and systems for the coating/decoration of various materials, from wood and its derivatives to ceramic, fibre cement, plastic and glass.
Equipped with industrial print heads, J-PRINT SP can deliver UV-curable inks and is designed for integration into either fully digital or hybrid single-pass printing environments. The modular print bars can be configured up to virtually unlimited print widths. The adopted technology lets J-PRINT SP operate at speeds of up to 50 linear metres per minute.
Why choose Cefla Finishing?
There are, therefore, several reasons for turning to Cefla Finishing when looking for an industrial digital printing machine. Cutting-edge, constantly-evolving solutions, decades of experience serving a global clientele and plenty of scope for product customisation are, in fact, crucial success factors when it comes to assessing and deciding on a strategic partner.
But that’s not all: Cefla Finishing provides an additional service component that makes the range unique.
Cefla is, in fact, ready to:
- supply a complete line, from preparation of the bare substrate to the decorated, finished product.
- fine-tune the complete technological process, from reception of the original samples to be reproduced to worker training.
- provide customers with close support so they can acquire the expertise and experience needed to prepare the definitive print files.
Choosing Cefla Finishing, therefore, doesn’t just mean purchasing a cutting-edge solution. It also means gaining an understanding of the most advanced skills on the market and having the opportunity to put then into practice for your business.
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