In the current era of the textile printing industry's transformation towards greenization, flexibility, and high quality, pain points such as increasingly stringent environmental policies, difficulty in printing on special fabrics, high costs of small-batch and rapid-response production, and poor hand feel of finished products have become core bottlenecks restricting enterprise development. YiliJet Coltex is deeply engaged in printing technology innovation and has launched the Dragon XT4022 high-speed digital direct-injection printing machine equipped with the revolutionary new latex printing technology. Instead of pursuing mere speed gimmicks, it focuses on technological innovation to accurately address industry pain points, providing textile enterprises with an efficient, environmentally friendly, and flexible one-stop printing solution to help them seize opportunities in fierce competition.
The core competitiveness of the Dragon XT4022 lies in its new latex printing technology—a recently emerging environmentally friendly digital printing technology that completely breaks the technical limitations of traditional printing. With its four core advantages of "environmental protection, high efficiency, wide adaptability, and excellent quality", it redefines the standards of textile printing and accurately solves the long-standing pain points in the industry.
Currently, global environmental policies are becoming increasingly stringent, with stricter restrictions on harmful substances such as VOC emissions, formaldehyde, and APEO. Many enterprises miss high-end European and American brand orders or face environmental penalties due to failure to meet environmental standards. The Dragon XT4022 adopts advanced water-based latex ink, achieving zero VOC emissions, no formaldehyde or APEO addition from the source, and no irritating odor. It fully complies with international stringent environmental standards such as OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 and REACH, eliminating the need for additional investment in wastewater treatment equipment with almost zero wastewater discharge, truly realizing "green production". It can be easily adapted to products with high environmental requirements such as infant intimate clothing, high-end home textiles, automotive interiors, and medical protective fabrics, opening up access to high-end markets for enterprises and avoiding environmental compliance risks.
One of the advantages of the new latex printing technology is its ultra-simple process. It eliminates the need for steaming and washing processes required in traditional printing, while ensuring bright and full color with high reproducibility. Combined with targeted pre-treatment and the self-crosslinking film-forming characteristics of latex, it achieves dry rubbing fastness ≥4.5 grade, wet rubbing fastness ≥3.5 grade, and soaping fastness ≥4 grade, with excellent color fastness. It completely solves the dual pain points of "complex processes" and "uneven quality" in traditional printing
The unique latex film-forming technology, combined with standardized pre-treatment processes, endows the printed layer with excellent elasticity and folding resistance. Even on elastic fabrics such as spandex and swimsuit fabrics, the printed patterns can stretch with the fabric without cracking or peeling, perfectly retaining the original soft hand feel and breathability of the fabric. The pre-treatment further optimizes ink adhesion, ensuring that the color fastness meets standards and is suitable for long-term use.
At the same time, this technology has a wide range of adaptability. Combined with targeted pre-treatment, it can achieve stable printing on various common fabrics such as PU/PVC/TPU waterproof fabrics, raincoat fabrics, outdoor冲锋衣 fabrics, as well as leather, artificial leather, microfiber, reflective fabrics, and cotton, polyester, spandex blended and knitted fabrics. With full color and excellent fastness, it helps enterprises develop new businesses in special fabric printing and increase product added value.
With the rise of e-commerce customization and niche brand orders, small-batch (1-500 meters), multi-style, and fast delivery have become the market mainstream. The drawbacks of traditional printing, such as high plate-making costs, large minimum order quantities, and long delivery times (7-15 days), make it difficult for enterprises to undertake such orders. Relying on the plate-free advantage of the new latex printing technology, the Dragon XT4022 achieves printing from 1 meter and fast delivery within 24 hours, without bearing high plate-making costs. It can not only efficiently handle small-batch customized orders but also flexibly switch styles to meet market rapid-response needs, helping enterprises seize the growth dividend of niche orders.
The Dragon XT4022 is an industrial-grade printing platform designed to meet high-end and large-scale production needs. With stable and reliable performance, it provides protection for efficient production and adapts to diverse order requirements.
Equipped with 32 industrial-grade nozzles and advanced drive control technology, it achieves efficient printing output, which can easily meet small-batch and rapid-response market orders, win valuable time advantages for customers, and help enterprises improve order turnover rate.
Supporting an ultra-large printing width of 2200mm, it can meet the printing needs of various wide-width fabrics such as home textiles and advertising banners, reduce splicing processes, improve the continuity and integrity of single production, and lower subsequent processing costs.
Adopting 32H industrial nozzles, it ensures extremely high printing precision and stability. Whether it is fine lines, complex gradients, or high-saturation colors, they can be accurately and delicately reproduced. Combined with the standardized preprocessing procedure, it further improves color brightness and ensures the top quality of each product.
The Dragon XT4022 is not only proficient in the new latex printing technology but also has strong multifunctional compatibility. Its core advantage is to greatly expand the range of fabric adaptation, break the fabric limitations of traditional printing processes, realize "all-in-one machine" flexible production, maximize equipment utilization, and meet the diverse market needs and order scenarios of enterprises.
Breaking the fabric barriers of traditional printing, nylon fabrics previously relied on acid printing schemes. However, the new latex printing technology equipped on the Dragon XT4022 can be directly adapted to various special fabrics that are difficult to print efficiently with traditional processes, such as nylon, canvas, blended fabrics, and leather. There is no need to replace equipment or process schemes additionally, which greatly reduces production investment and operation costs.
Compared with traditional pigment printing, the new latex printing technology has more outstanding printing effects—brighter and fuller colors, higher degree of restoration, and no graying or darkening. At the same time, the latex film is thin and soft, deeply integrated with fabric fibers, and the hand feel is far better than the stiff and compact texture of pigment printing. It not only ensures printing quality but also retains the original texture and comfort of the fabric, providing strong technical support for enterprises to develop high-end and special fabric printing businesses and expand application scenarios and profit space.
More Than Equipment, a Strategic Partner for Sustainable Development.Choosing YiliJet Coltex Dragon XT4022 essentially means choosing a solution to solve industry pain points and improve core competitiveness. Its core empowerment includes:
（1）Avoid environmental risks, easily undertake high-end brand orders, and enhance brand competitiveness;
（2）Ultra-simple process saves costs, simplifies production processes, and improves production efficiency;
（3）Break through fabric and quality limitations, develop new tracks for special fabrics, and increase product added value;
（4）All-in-one machine adapts to diverse orders, efficiently responds to market rapid-response needs, and seizes opportunities in customized and niche markets.
In the critical period of the transformation and upgrading of the textile printing industry, YiliJet Coltex has always focused on technological innovation, focused on industry pain points, and taken the new latex printing technology as a breakthrough. Through the Dragon XT4022 high-speed digital direct-injection printing machine, it injects new development momentum into enterprises. We do not pursue mere speed competition, but only focus on creating real value for customers, helping every partner achieve sustainable growth on the path of green, efficient, and flexible development, and jointly opening a new future for the textile printing industry.
