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ENGLISH 77<br />
KONFEKSİYON TEKNİK | MART | MARCH | 2017<br />
tinued. That’s why we will go on giving more support<br />
to young talents.’ An achievement certificate was<br />
given to each student ranked as the first 10 in the<br />
competition. The winner of Design Contest Başak<br />
Koç will be hosted at FESPA Hamburg fair organized<br />
in 2017 with Kornit Digital’s covering all the expenses.<br />
The designs of the first three winners of the contest<br />
will meet with professionals coming from the global<br />
market in Kornit Digital booth at FESPA Hamburg.<br />
Tetaş-Kornit Digital Printing Seminar Attracted<br />
Great Interest<br />
Stating that there is a strong collaboration between<br />
Tetaş and Marmara University, Engin Arabacı expressed<br />
that the university organized a half day<br />
seminar with Kornit on 1st of November in Acıbadem<br />
campus of the school. Arabacı told that digital printing<br />
technologies, production processes, chemicals,<br />
dyes and generally all major topics were discussed<br />
at the seminar that attracted great interest of Textile<br />
Design Department’s students. Arabacı said; ‘We<br />
are very glad with the students’ great interest. We<br />
are in a close collaboration with them. Also head<br />
of the department Mr. Biret Tavman being in the first<br />
place, all the other professors value this collaboration<br />
very much. The management of the department<br />
make effort for students’ working with the<br />
industry, designs’ coming true and providing more<br />
assistance to the sector. In order to make students’<br />
creativity and designs realize, we are carrying on<br />
printing projects with our Kornit Digital machines in<br />
the showroom placed at Tetaş central office. We<br />
give great value for these projects in terms of the<br />
future of the sector.’ Kornit Digital Turkey Manager<br />
Doğa İpek said that their aims with the seminar<br />
and contest are to strengthen the collaboration<br />
between sector and academy and to stress the essential<br />
importance of the design for a value-added<br />
manufacturing. İpek continued thusly; ‘Kornit Digital<br />
supports these organizations or performs various<br />
events and contests putting forward the design. A<br />
very similar organizaton is carried out in the USA with<br />
FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology / New York) and<br />
it attracts great interest. We organized the Turkish<br />
version of this event with Marmara University for the<br />
first time. We are planning to perform this event in<br />
Turkey every year.’ The designs of students were<br />
printed with direct to textile printing machine Storm<br />
Hexa in Design Contest. Providing a production with<br />
a wider range of colour pallet as CMYKRG+White,<br />
Storm Hexa has 50x70cm print volume. A perfect direct<br />
printing up to 1200dpi resolution to cotton, polyester,<br />
cotton-polyester mixture, lycra, viscose , silk,<br />
leather, denim fabric, linen and wool fabrics can be<br />
done with Storm Hexa which is based on Kornit Digital’s<br />
NeoPigmentTM technology.