The money spent on printed and potentially printed electronics doubled in 2007, as did the number of organisations participating. There are now about 1500 organisations doing significant work, most of them being academic. In 2008, there will be much more emphasis on commercialisation and many more countries will join the fray.

US-based Trident Industrial Inkjet says it has developed a new range of water-based pigment inkjet inks with textile binders for digital textile printing. It can digitally print onto 100% untreated cotton, polyester, viscous, silk or blends.

Trident announces the launch of its new set of FabricFast Ultra™ Pigment Ink Jet Inks with Binders. This next generation, water-based, pigment textile ink jet ink is significantly improved from the previous FabricFast Pigment inks providing more brilliant colors and enhanced wash fastness on untreated fabrics, even cotton and natural fibers (wash fast rating of 4 out of possible 5). FabricFast Ultra is available in CYMK, Cyan Light, Magenta Light, Grey, as well as spot colors Orange, Blue, Red and Green to further increase color gamut.

Trident Industrial InkJet – An ITW Company announces a partnership with imaging Technology international ( iTi ) of Boulder, Colorado USA to integrate Trident’s industrial ink jet printhead technology into digital manufacturing and printing solutions in response to growing market demand.

Trident is pleased to introduce our new General Manager, Juan Lopez, effective immediately. Juan has an extensive background with over 20 years in the inkjet industry. He has previously worked for Exxon Office Systems (where Trident inkjet technology was first developed), DataProducts and, most recently, as General Manager for Diagraph.

Coding cases of its muffins, donuts and other baked goods is easy for family-owned J.S.B. Industries' Muffin Town, which relies on dual-head, large-character ink-jet coding and network software to meet case-coding needs on-the-rise.

Trident® Industrial Inkjet, An ITW Company, a leading designer and manufacturer of piezoelectric impulse ink jet products, launched a redesigned web site today to improve customer support and provide a much wider range of information about industrial inkjet technology.

Trident announces a twenty percent extension in the FabricFastTM color gamut, with the introduction of four new spot colors: orange, violet, red and green. FabricFast pigmented, water-based ink jet inks with binder revolutionize textile designing, sampling and printing by offering an extensive color gamut in colors that remain true from design to production.

Trident announces the availability of a free product trial and evaluation kit for FabricFastTM ink. FabricFast is a pigmented, water-based ink with binder which enables customers to achieve a color gamut that matches the colors that will ultimately be used in print production. This makes FabricFast ideal for short run printing, sampling and proofing of textiles, home textiles, interior textiles, signs, banners, flags, tags and labels.

Trident announces FabricFastTM ink, a new pigmented water-based ink for sign, banner and flag printing. FabricFast revolutionizes textile designing, sampling, and printing by offering consistent color that remains true from design to production. FabricFast pigmented ink offers superior light fastness and significantly enhances production efficiency with simplified fixation equipment.

Trident introduces a desktop textile printing application for FabricFastTM ink, a new pigmented water-based ink for Epson inkjet printers. From the comfort of a cost-effective desktop printer, FabricFast provides lightfast, color intense textile printing that matches the color and fastness properties of production screen inks. The FabricFast desktop application revolutionizes textile designing, sampling and proofing and can also be used for printing fabric labels and tags.

Trident will introduce FabricFastTM, a new pigmented water-based ink for Epson textile ink jet printers, at the American Textile Machinery Exhibition International (ATME-I), booth A-127, September 13-17, Greenville, South Carolina.

Trident announces FabricFastTM ink, a new pigmented water-based ink for Epson textile inkjet printers. FabricFast revolutionizes designing, sampling, and short run textile printing by offering digital ink jet print capability on a wide range of fabrics – including cotton. The specially formulated ink provides the soft hand of dye-based inks with the wash fastness and light fastness of pigmented inks, all in an ecologically friendly water-base.