Global digital textile printing market will reach $7.9 billion by 2030, clocking a CAGR of 14.8 percent. The growth is attributed to the increasing demand for digital fabric prints in domestic and exports markets. Digital printing technological in textile printing has enabled consumers to look for new fashion trends, creative designs and fast availability of quality products.
Ethco Prints was born into the rich lineage of the Khatri family’s pedigree in silk printing. The family has been in this domain for more than a century– with generations of accumulated expertise in fabric, colours, designing, styling and printing techniques. Abu Khatri, the patriarch of the Ethco Prints house is an industry veteran, renowned for handblock discharge printing & screen printing on pure silk fabric.
Asad Khatri is the 4th generation steward currently running Ethco Prints. He has extensive hands-on experience of conventionalhand-block & screen printing. Leveraging this experience, he has adopted the latest technologies and started digital printing in 2012.
To get the best results on different fabrics, Ethco Prints runs customized printing operations using three different digital printers:
1. MS JP5 EVO- uses Acid Inks - for the bestresults on Silks, Wool, Polyamide & Nylon.
2. Konica Pro 120- uses Reactive Inks for the best result on Cotton, Viscose, Modal, Rayons and Natural-Blends.
3. Epson 9430- uses Epson Inks for the best quality and consistent colour results on Polyester.
Asad continues to build Ethco Prints as a one-stop Centre-of-Excellence for all types of fabric printing - silks, wools, cottons, modal, viscose, polyester, polyamide & nylon. In addition to high quality Custom Printing Solutions, Ethco Prints also offers ready fabrics as well as a range of ready-to-wear premium products such as apparels (kaftan, shirts, tunics) and accessories (scarves, stoles, pocket squares).
Ethco is one of the few printing units in India which offers capacity & expertise in Digital Acid Printing for Pure Silks, Pure Wools, Scarf & Stoles. As Asad notes, “Printing on 100 percent pure silk & wools is more suitable with Acid Inks as compared to Reactive Inks since it gives the sharpest prints, bright colour with high luminous value and deep penetration so necessary for Scarves, Stoles, Sarees, Sarong, Pocket Squares, and any other garments where the front and back of the fabric need to be same.
It is well known that Polyamide and Nylons are only printable with Acid Inks. Ethco has been using Acid Inks on high-speed Kyocera Print-head printer for almost a decade”. The company has industry recognition for providing Acid Digital Printing and for providing digitally printed pure silk fabric & pure silk accessories.
ETHCO is one of the few printing units in India which offers capacity & expertise in Digital Acid Printing for Pure Silks, Pure Wools, Scarf & Stoles
The Current Installed Capacity At Ethco Is 75,000 Meters/Month
Ethco Prints is a single-minded and unflinching commitment to Quality. Decades of expertise in handling and printing of pure silk has enable them to bring Quality to their core philosophy. This commitment to quality allows Ethco to offer unique services like Acid Printing on Pure Silk, Reactive and Sublimation Printing. This adherence to strict standards results in Ethco fabric and apparels being sold in high-end retail outlets.
To provide full spectrum support to Customers, Ethco has created a design studio that helps keep print styles, designs, and colours in-sync with the latest trends. The studio enables Ethco to seamlessly offer design solutions like placement prints for the garments to their clients.
Ethco Prints is a unique blend and Small in size so Customers receive personalized service, Big on quality & pedigree.
