Kornit Digital is an international manufacturing company based in Israel. It produces high-speed industrial inkjet printers, and pigmented ink and chemical products for the garment and apparel, home goods, and textile accessoriesdecorating industry. Kornit Digital has offices in Israel, Hong Kong, US, and Germany. Ofer Ben Zur was Kornit CEO from its founding in 2002 until 2014, when he was succeeded by Gabi Seligsohn; Ben Zur remained as Chief Technology Officer. Ronen Samuel, formerly of HP Indigo, succeeded Seligsohn as CEO in June of 2018.
History
The company was founded in 2002 by a team that previously work in the digital printing field, in companies such as Scitex and Hewlett-Packard. The company uses the same technology used in digital printing and has applied it to digital textile printing, which has developed more slowly than the field of digital printing. In 2015 Kornit Digital went public. In October 2018 Kornit moved its North American operations to a showroom in Englewood, New Jersey. In 2019 Kornit released several new print systems, including Avalanche Poly Pro, the first digital direct-to-garment print system developed specifically for polyester and poly-blend fabrics, as well as the Presto, a successor to Allegro for the roll-to-roll direct-to-fabric print market. Avalanche Poly Pro was later named "Best Direct-to-Garment Print System" by the European Digital Press Association.
Products and technologies
Kornit Digital sells direct to garment printers of different varieties. Its printers come with RIP software customized to each machine. Kornit's machines use a pre-treatment wetting process that is integrated into the printer, which it calls The PreT System. This enables printing on the garment without the need for manual pre-treatment of any kind, by applying a fixation agent automatically on press, immediately prior to the print process. This process makes wet-on-wet printing possible. The company also provides a process which enables printing on dark garments. This process includes coating finished garments with a white coat of ink created from patented inks formed from CMYK. Kornit's ink plant in Kiryat Gat produces CMYK and white ink for its customers. Kornit systems with a "Hexa" or "HD6" designation supplement CMYK with primary red and green inks for increased color gamut. Its inks have received Oeko-Tex approval in the industry.
