Textile: Amethyst

Stork introduces Amethyst...a true digital production printer for all your added value textile needs. With Amethyst, innovative and high quality designs printed digitally on textile now become a reality, so customers can benefit from a real answer to today's market challenges. Thanks to a productive output of many square meters per day, printing on demand requirements can now be met - specific where run lengths are getting shorter.

With Amethyst, all key textile requirements such as light and wash fastness are guaranteed. And it is unrivalled print quality plus its ability to print unique designs in sizes up to 3 meters in length, mean Amethyst is truly the future in digital print solution for customers seeking innovative textile printing capabilities.
High quality and bright colours
Because of the unique Stork inkjet technology, an ultimate design quality is guaranteed. Amethyst also ensures even the finest details are faithfully reproduced, and that continuous tone designs can be generated with a level of quality that clearly outperforms conventional printing methods. Needless to say, Amethyst can be linked to almost any CAD system. The new Stork Amethyst...making the creation of new design standards in print, a reality.
Stork Amethyst...the ideal solution
High speed operation, plus the ability to continuously print for many hours, without the need for operator surveillance, mean Amethyst can produce a run of many metres per day. While Amethyst prints on natural fibre, using specifically pre-treated substrates will deliver the end product quality you demand for actual end use. The printed cloth can be treated in any finishing or fixation process currently in use with conventional printing. In addition Stork can also supply the Amethyst Fixation unit, to assure highly reproducible steam fixation results
Main specifications
Printing method Continuous inkjet, with multi-level-deflection Printheads 8 heads Max. printing width 1.60 m. Printing speed 16 m²/h (high-speed), 8 m²/h (high-precision) Colour reproduction 16.7million colours, 256 gradations Dimensions Approx. 4.04 (W) x 1.30 (H) x 0.80 (D) m. Weight Approx. 1300 kg. Power 230 VAC, 50/60Hz, 3500VA Options Fixation unit Ink Reactive dyestuff ink for natural fibres Computer Pentium II, 450MHz, 10GB harddisk Software Stork software on Microsoft Windows NT platform

Stork Screens America Inc., 3201 N I-85, Charlotte, NC 28269. Tel: 704-598-7171; Fax: 704-596-0850.