From Portland, Maine: The Possibilities of Digital Printing at Designtex
Nestled in Portland, Maine, a working port city gorgeously set on a peninsula extending into Casco Bay, is a digital surface imaging studio and facility producing some of the wildest, digitally superior materials we’ve seen. Textile company Designtex sees this facility as a creative genius laboratory of sorts – a place where its designers and craftsmen, and all creative team members, get to experiment with pushing through digital printing boundaries. Before being acquired by Designtex in 2011, the 26,000 square foot facility enjoyed a long, fruitful history as Portland Color. Designtex began working with Portland Color in 2008, and immediately saw its potential to help Designtex do what it does best. Officeinsight ventured up to Portland in person to visit Designtex and to check out its surface imaging facility, filled to the brim with digital and laser printing presses and countless other machines. Designtex, the surface imaging studio, and …
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