A Meridian Inds. Company, Aurora Specialty Textiles Group, is a leading company in coating, dyeing and finishing woven and non-woven fabrics.

Digital Textiles Printing U.S. 2018, organized by Smithers Pira, took a close look at advances in the industry as well as the future of textile digital printing.

In addition to Aurora’s Accent Knit fabrics, Aurora’s Expressions Semi-Gloss and Matte products were recently on display at the IT Supplies networking reception held in cooperation with the Digital Textiles Printing U.S. 2018 conference earlier this month here.

Mark Shaneyfelt, Aurora’s marketing and sales director for printable textiles, said that the reception was a great showcase for several Aurora products specifically developed to optimize color and print output at manufacturing speeds on the industry’s latest digital printers.

He elaborated that the conference reinforced how quickly textiles are becoming a mainstream media for digital printing. He said that, “If printers are not already printing with textiles,” also, “they are seriously considering printing on textiles in the near future.”

At the networking reception, several of Aurora’s printable textiles were used by printers to demonstrate their printing technologies, including the Expressions Canvas products, which were printed on Canon’s new Oce’ Colorado UV printer and HP’s 360 latex printer.

Aurora’s Accent Soft Knit 5 also was printed in a dye sub transfer demonstration.