My name is Freya Moses and I am the Senior Technician for printed
textiles so I cover screen printing but obviously also cover digital print as
well. We're in the digital print room and so basically this houses our two large
format digital printers and it's sort of central within fashion and textiles,
obviously we share this building with four of their courses. So this is our
shiny new Mamaki printer so we're very lucky to have this it's a year old so it
is, you know, top of the range and it's partly industrial, but also used for
educational printing, but it can print, you know, sort of 10, 12 metre lengths
at a time. It prints with reactive dyes so it's the more high-end way of
printing textiles, which is obviously what we want on textiles you know we
want to print kind of the best we can. So the dyes that we use, they only work on
natural fabrics, so we can print on cottons,
silks, wool, jerseys, you know, all those sorts of things and so we've got a huge
range of fabrics I think we've got about 25 at the moment and but we're also open
for requests as well, if there's a particular fabric somebody wants, you
know, pop-up we can negotiate, talk about it and see if it's something that we can
offer, but yeah so we've got obviously got two printers and but this is our
main one that we use just because it's the newest one and you can kind of print
quicker, the quality's amazing and so yes we're very pleased, very pleased with our
new printer. So we're really, really keen for local businesses, makers to come up
and just look at the process look at the printers, local makers are outsourcing
because most of the companies that offer this a kind of thing are up north, like
Macclesfield, London all of that and it's quite anonymous you send off your file
and then you kind of get what you're given, but you don't see the process and
I'm a designer, so when I design textiles for digital printing I'll design them in
a much different way to if I were screen printing it, because I know the process
so I think it's so important for all of the makers to know how this works
because I think it will inform their designing a lot,
we also kind of educate as well so of course they can come up watch the stuff
print, anything like that, we can obviously accommodate. I think what makes
us a bit different to bigger kind of setups is that we can print very small
samples so rather than having to have you know a minimum of 1 metre, 2 metre
printing I could do a minimum of half a metre 30 centimeters you know so we can
offer. I think printing that's more appropriate
for kind of smaller makers people that are starting out wanting to prototype
new products, our lead time as well is a lot shorter, so we're sort of working on
like a week kind of lead time so I think basically we can kind of offer an
opportunity for small businesses or local makers designers it's almost trial
stuff with us and yeah if they wanted like I mentioned before 10 meters of a
fabric that's absolutely fine but we couldn't print huge you know amounts of
fabric so if someone's wanting 50 metres, we wouldn't be able to do that with the
setup that we have, so I think we can offer and it would be for sort of you
know maybe mid level you know from small to mid level kind of designers makers.
I'm really sorry I can't be there at the amazing Cornish makers event today but
I'm really excited to be able to share with you what we can offer you with our
digital print Bureau here at Falmouth University if you've got any questions
if you would like to come up and have a look at what we do we've got a Facebook
page which is digital print bureau for Cornwall and we've also got an Instagram
page which is fowl digital print. Thank you!
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