The Fastest Carpet Printing Machine in the Series

The Digital Brand of Digital Carpets

Karya Digital offers practical solutions to brands that want to produce printed carpets with the Fastest Carpet Printing Machine of the Series. Founded more than 30 years ago and providing different solutions to the digital printing sector for the last 15 years, Karya Digital has also started serving the carpet industry. Stating that they have recently developed a fully integrated system capable of direct printing on carpets, Karya Digital Business Development Manager Berkay Alper shared information about the new solutions they will introduce to the sector.

Berkay Alper

First of all, could you inform us about your company and brands?

Our journey began in 1990 with embroidery design under Brode Art. In 1994, we became the leader in Turkey in the transfer printing sector with our Hitit Transfer brand. In the same year, under the umbrella of Karya Textile, our company became a pioneer in its field and a symbol of quality and continuity.

For the last 15 years, Karya Digital has been supplying sublimation and direct printing inks, printing machines, and sublimation paper to the digital printing sector. Through our technical support unit, we provide the technical service support required by the industry, not only for routine machine maintenance and repairs but also for color management and cost optimization.

As the digital world continued to develop day by day, in 2018 we established our brand Sign In Turkey as a subsidiary of Karya Digital, supplying digital printing machines and spare parts.

What kind of solutions do you offer for the carpet industry? What types of products do you have in carpet printing machines?

We are by far the leader in the sublimation sector in both machine and ink sales. Naturally, customers who want to produce carpets using the sublimation system found us directly. Currently, 30 of our machines are operating in Gaziantep alone.

There are not many wide and fast machine options capable of printing on sublimation paper. We have a 16-head machine that can print on sublimation paper. This is truly a major breakthrough when compared to other machines and their performance in the sector. This machine, known as the Fastest Carpet Printing Machine of the Series for transferring onto carpets, performs 750 square meters of sublimation printing per hour. Afterwards, you pass the paper through a system to transfer it onto the carpet. There is no speed issue at that stage, because the main factor determining the capacity of a digital carpet manufacturing factory is the printing speed of the machine.

However, prints made in this way in the carpet sector produce carpets without high pile height and density. We can describe these mainly as products targeting America and its region. Besides this, there are carpets with high pile height and density, and a need arose to print on these as well. There is one company in the world that does this, and their prices are very high. We have three different solutions for the sector. The first is a fully digital, fully integrated system capable of direct printing on carpets. The second is an economical model that adapts paper-printing machines for use in printed carpet production. Lastly, we offer paper transfer machines, in which we are already a leader. In this way, we will serve the carpet industry.

What kind of work are you doing regarding exports?

We have a partnership structure for exports. We have a factory in China. Our partner there handles sales to China and India, while we manage sales to other countries. Since we believe we have reached saturation in the domestic market, we formed our export team last year. However, when the pandemic process began, we were not able to carry out highly effective export activities. Despite this, we have started exporting to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Tunisia, and Algeria.

What kind of feedback have you received from abroad regarding your machines?

We received a request for distributorship in Europe from a place where we sold our machine. This naturally made us very pleased, because it is difficult to break the prejudices of Europeans. However, when they see the results and obtain such high-quality performance from a machine at this price level, it makes them happy. This makes us proud.