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Epson Canada partners
with George Brown
College to launch LIFT Lab
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Canadian design students will now be able to use the
latest technology to make their custom fabric dreams a
reality, thanks to a partnership between Epson Canada
and Toronto’s George Brown College. The college’s Fashion
Exchange officially launched its much-anticipated Leading
Innovation in Fashion Technology (LIFT) Lab October 29
at its Fashion Exchange hub in Toronto. The new techno-
logical hub will allow students to produce custom-designed
fabrics and fashions. Among the technologies featured is
an Epson 64” SureColor F9370 Dye-Sublimation Fabric
Printer for waterless, roll-to-roll custom textile printing.
The technology can produce high-quality printed fabrics
quickly and in flexible quantities, thereby saving travel and
shipping costs, while reducing environmental impact by
minimizing wasted fabric.
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In addition to an official ribbon-cutting ceremony and warm
welcome from George Brown College President Anne
Sado, a panel discussion (moderated by Stacey Fruitman,
founder of SWS Ventures) on the current digital textile
industry was held. It featured Epson’s Textile Printing
Group Manager Mark Radogna, George Brown’s FX Director
Marilyn McNeil-Morin, and Mark Andrew Sunderland, VP
of Innovation Technology at Thomas Jefferson University.
The Epson SureColor F9370 delivers industrial-level
production with speeds up to 1,169 sq. ft./hr. and features
an integrated new fabric-wiping system coupled with a
roll-to-roll media support system to handle economical,
lightweight transfer papers. It’s designed to support
medium to large-volume dye-sublimation transfer printing.
“The dye-sublimation printing industry is rapidly expanding
into new verticals, and Epson is dedicated to being at the
forefront of our clients’ production needs,” said Tim Check,
Product Manager of Professional Imaging at Epson America.
“When developing the
SureColor F9370, our
engineer s aimed to
increase performance,
efficiency and reliability –
which resulted in print
speed increases of up to
75%, making it one of the
fastest printers on the
market in this category.”
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Epson’s Textile Printing Group Manager Mark Radogna,
with George Brown College’s Fashion Exchange Director
Marilyn McNeil-Morin, in front of the Epson SureColor
F9370 Dye-Sublimation Fabric Printer.
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