Kangli Digital acquires PrintFactory, connecting the entire digital ecosystem of textile digital printing process
On April 12, 2026, Kangli Digital, a globally renowned leader in sustainable on-demand digital fashion and textile production technology, was established（Kornit Digital）Formally announced that the Dutch cloud printing workflow technology giant has been completedPrintFactory 的收购。此次战略并购，被视为康丽数码加速全球时尚纺织行业数字化转型、构建端到端智能生产生态的关键一步，将深度打通从需求、生产到交付的全流程数字化链路，为传统纺织印花向敏捷智造转型破除核心壁垒。
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Israel, Kornit Digital is a benchmark enterprise in the global textile digital printing field. It focuses on the research and production of industrial grade digital printing equipment, inks, and software such as direct spray clothing (DTG) and direct spray fabrics (DTR). With over 100 core patents, Kornit Digital is renowned for its sustainable, efficient, and flexible production solutions, serving thousands of brands and manufacturers worldwide. Its business covers diverse textile scenarios such as clothing, home furnishings, and decoration. Its core products such as Atlas MAX and Presto MAX series have become industry standards for textile digital printing, leading the transformation from traditional analog production to digital on-demand manufacturing for a long time.The acquired party, PrintFactory, is a top global cloud native workflow, color management, and production automation software service provider headquartered in the Netherlands. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, PrintFactory focuses on solving the pain points of professional printing production processes. Its cloud platform has been deployed in thousands of production bases worldwide, compatible with over 3500 different models of printing and cutting equipment, and has over 10000 active users, including multiple core customers of Kangli Digital. It has global leading technical strength and market reputation in areas such as workflow automation, color precision control, and cross device production consistency. With its ultimate production efficiency optimization capability, its solution can significantly reduce consumables and ink waste, helping enterprises achieve faster, more streamlined, and more stable scale production.
Currently, the global screen printing market, as one of the largest production segments in the clothing decoration field, still heavily relies on traditional simulation techniques. Enterprises face multiple insurmountable obstacles when transitioning to digital manufacturing, including complex workflow management chaos, difficulty in coordinating multiple production technologies, poor IT system interconnectivity, and inability to guarantee consistency in production output across different production lines, which seriously restrict the pace of digital upgrading in the industry.The core of Kangli Digital's acquisition is to leverage PrintFactory's technological advantages to overcome the aforementioned pain points, deeply integrate its automation capabilities into its own platform, and integrate demand generation, production workflow, and order fulfillment into a continuous digital ecosystem. Ronen Samuel, CEO of Kangli Digital, made it clear that:This acquisition is not simply a supplement to workflow or color management technology, but rather to build the digital infrastructure needed for the fashion industry to transition from analog production to agile on-demand manufacturing - connecting the entire process of demand, production, and manufacturing through an integrated platform, accelerating the industry's transition to a new production model.The addition of PrintFactory will bring three core values to Kangli Digital: firstly, technological completion. Its cloud native architecture, cross device compatibility, and precise color management system can improve Kangli Digital's software ecosystem and fill the key gaps in full chain digitization; The second is market expansion. With the extensive coverage of PrintFactory in the global screen printing market, Kangli Digital can quickly penetrate this huge traditional market and accelerate the replacement of analog processes with digital technology; The third is the empowerment of users and teams. With over ten thousand active users, a mature global service system, and a professional team with decades of experience in workflow and color management, Kangli Digital will directly strengthen its customer service capabilities and technical research and development capabilities.
For PrintFactory, joining Kangli Digital has opened a new chapter of development. CEO Erik Strik stated:For thirty years, the company has been dedicated to solving practical process problems in printing production. With Kangli Digital's global layout, innovative culture, and platform vision, it will be able to create broader value for global customers.After the integration of both parties, PrintFactory's automation and cloud based advantages will be deeply integrated with Kangli Digital's hardware, ink, and terminal application capabilities, forming a complete solution of "hardware+software+service".From an industry perspective, this acquisition will reconstruct the pattern of the textile printing industry: on the one hand, it will accelerate the digital transformation of traditional screen printing enterprises, reduce the threshold and cost of transformation, solve the collaborative problems across equipment and processes, and achieve comprehensive improvement in production efficiency, quality stability, and cost control; On the other hand, we will strengthen Kangli Digital's leading position in the global textile digital printing field, consolidate its full industry chain layout from equipment, consumables to software and services, and help its KornitX platform achieve full chain coverage of demand generation, order arrangement and global fulfillment, further implementing its strategy of transforming into a consulting and solution oriented customer service model.In the long run, this acquisition is not only a strategic synergy between the two companies, but also will accelerate the digitalization, intelligence, and sustainability of the global fashion textile industry, promote the industry to break free from the inefficient and high consumption bottlenecks of traditional production, and move towards a new era of on-demand, flexible, and green industrial digital manufacturing, injecting strong impetus into the transformation and upgrading of the global textile industry.Article reposted from: Middle nozzle stripIf there is any infringement, please contact us to delete it
