Digital textile printing: Status report 2021

Abstract

Digital textile printing technology has been considered the preferred textile printing technology since 2003, when production digital textile printers were first introduced at ITMA (International Exhibition of Textile Machinery) in Birmingham, UK. However, in 2021, 18 years later, this technology is utilized in fewer than 10% of the entire textile printing industry. In this document, we aim to summarize the state-of-the-art of the digital textile printing industry and to predict its future trajectory.