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Kaijie Chen is a Shanghai, China born surface and visual designer. The 26-year-old graduated from Donghua University with a BS in textile engineering and design, but her work belies any notion of rigid.

There’s little doubt that her education and training provide the framework for pushing the limits of those two disciplines. She knows the rules so she can break the rules. Take, for example, her use of inflexible inks that relies on the cracks to achieve a ripple effect in the design. She wanted ink that would intentionally crack as she manipulated her creation.

Conversely, she has used flexible UV-curable inks

Print is not dead, in fact, it’s thriving, especially in the textile industry, where personalisation and creating unique products are key. It’s now all about printing directly on fabric and other textile materials - the trend is exploding.

Growing Demand for Textile Inkjet Ink

The fashion industry is one of the markets benefiting from advances in inkjet printing on textiles. Traditionally, clothing brands roll our new styles every 12 weeks. While this is generally marketed as “new season’s styles,” it actually stems from limits in the manufacturing supply chain.

Clothes with prints have to be designed, prototyped and first run, most often using screen printing, which requires substantial setup costs combined with ample production levels to maximise cost. The inkjet industry is changing that,

Our Phoenix Programme offers you a comprehensive portfolio of re-manufactured HP Designjets at highly competitive prices. All Phoenix HP Designjet Printers undergo a rigorous renewal process and have a full HP on site warranty as standard. They also qualify for the normal HP Care Pack Warranty extensions and Upgrades. So you can be sure that you are buying the quality, reliability and support that you would expect from new HP Designjets.

There are three grades of HP Designjets available Gold, Silver and Bronze. Each one has full onsite warranty and vary only in aesthetic condition and ink levels.

HP Designjet T830 eMFP

The HP Designjet T830 eMFP Printer brings a new benchmark in multi-functional wide-format printing and scanning. This A0 / A1 full colour plotter is ideal for

As some of you may already know, the General IQ990 Heatless Ink / Wolke WLK660082 has been in short supply and high demand. Like other suppliers, Array Ink too has had restrictions in the supply chain, but we have been scheduling supply to customers to keep everyone going.

However, as supply issues continue, we thought we should let you know that the General IQ800 is an upgraded ink from the IQ990 which was released a year or so ago. IQ800 was designed to be an upgrade to IQ990 and the good news is we have better stock position in it.

If you are struggling to get your hands on the IQ990 or the Wolke WLK660082, we highly recommend the IQ800. We have stock in our UK and Netherlands office, and if you would like to know more just

Array Ink Europe has been selling HP Original, Riso and Digital Print technology Inks across Europe since 2006. As well as being one of Europe's leading independent ink suppliers, our customers are also spread across the rest of the world.

In order to better serve our core EU markets, we have now put in place a new Distribution Centre in the Netherlands, allowing us to handle increasing transaction volumes and offering you, the customer, improved shipping rates and transit times across the EU.

Based in the south of Netherlands near the Belgian border, Array Ink Europe's new warehouse is perfectly located for efficient fulfilment of our whole product range, allowing us to keep our key promises to you, the customer:

- High Quality Ink Supplies

- Order before 3pm and we will ship same day

- Order and pay with a choice of payment options, no need to call us

HP have notified us that the HP C6168A Spot Colour Red ink is discontinued and this ink will be obsolete by the 31st of May, 2018. We are offering an opportunity for a last time buy and these orders will need to be placed by the 11th of May, 2018. These inks will still come with the standard 12 months shelf life.

We are offering a substitute ink for the C6168A, the nearest match to the HP Spot Red in the Collins range is the Collins CM-500, this ink is a Process Red. This ink comes with a shelf life of 2 years and is priced at £32.56/€37.00. 

Please let us know if you require further information on the Collins red ink.