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Fabric-on-demand pioneer prepares for global  expansion, relies on one-step digital printing technology

October 12, 2015 – Kornit Digital, (NASDAQ: KRNT), a worldwide  market leader in digital textile printing technology, has announced that Spoonflower,  Inc., a pioneer and fast-growing producer of on-demand fabrics, has purchased  its fourth Kornit Allegro system. This fourth system will be the first unit to  go into Spoonflower’s recently announced Berlin, Germany facility.
  

Spoonflower’s business model is driven by current market trends, with buyers  of printed fabric looking online for ways to express their individual style and  creativity. Based out of Durham, North Carolina (USA), Spoonflower is a leader  in the on-demand production of printed textiles. Their website allows people  from around the world to upload their own designs and print them on a range of  fabrics which then can be used for making curtains, quilts, clothes, bags,  furniture, dolls, pillows, framed artwork, costumes, banners and much more. The  Spoonflower marketplace offers the largest collection of independent fabric  designers in the world. Spoonflower’s average print run is just a few yards so the  company depends on a printing technology that allows for the profitable  production of a high number of very short ‘micro’ production runs on varying  fabric types. Since Spoonflower’s founding in 2008, it has expanded rapidly; it  now receives 2,000 orders every day, and the business has grown 50% in each of  the past three years. Since taking delivery of the first production Allegro in  the fall of 2013, Spoonflower’s success story has gone hand in hand with  Kornit.

The Kornit Allegro, with its print width of 1.8m, is a single-step digital  textile printing system that is designed for high-speed end-to-end production,  using Kornit’s patented NeoPigmentTM printing process. The system  features an inline pretreatment technology and works on a variety of fabrics, both  natural and man-made fibers and blends. It is the only industrial textile  printer available today that integrates all production steps in a single,  integrated production line, removing the need for complicated pre- and  post-treatments such as steaming and washing. In fact, it is the fastest way  from digital designs to the finished fabric. Relying on Kornit’s proprietary  process, textile companies and brands can shorten their turnaround times, cut  intermediators and eliminate inventory cost. Because of its resource-efficient  technology, saving energy and water, the Allegro is also a top choice for  environmental protection.

“With the Kornit Allegro, the manufacturing  process happens in one step. Essentially, it takes the entire textile printing  industry and consolidates it into one machine,” says Spoonflower Founding  Partner Gart Davis. “This allows us to deliver an e-commerce experience where  we custom print a fabric to order in a timeframe similar to a vendor that is  pulling a traditionally printed fabric from a warehouse.” Davis also praises  the reliability of the system: “Our Allegros are running three shifts, seven  days a week. And we have not needed to replace a single print head since the  beginning of the year.”

Sarel Ashkenazy, Kornit’s Executive VP of  Sales, is happy about the way the relationship has developed: “Digital  roll-to-roll textile printing is a market with an enormous growth potential.  The global demand for printed textiles is huge, and we are just at the  beginning of the transformation from conventional to digital production  methods. Still, it requires entrepreneurs like the Spoonflower founding team to  recognize the opportunity, pick the right tools and develop a business model  that works. We feel very privileged to be able to work with customers like  Spoonflower.”

With Spoonflower’s success spreading to global markets, the company  recently decided to open a second production facility in Europe, choosing  Berlin, Germany, as the right place to go. Spoonflower announced in August that it closed a $25 million series A investment  to fuel its global expansion.  “The  Kornit-Spoonflower partnership is very important to us”, said Davis. “Like us,  they are very committed to enabling the transformation of textiles into a  digital medium. Thanks to innovators like Kornit, we can all look forward to an  explosion of creativity and choice in textiles and everything that is made with  printed fabric. They are wonderful partners. We enjoy working together and are  confident in their ability to support our evolving needs as we go global.”

About Spoonflower
   As the world's first Internet-based service for creating custom fabric,  Spoonflower has been featured on thousands of DIY blogs and in publications as  diverse as Martha Stewart Living, BUST Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.  Making things with Spoonflower is also the subject of a new title from  Abrams/STC Craft called "The Spoonflower Handbook: A DIY Guide to  Designing Fabric, Wallpaper & Gift Wrap with 30+ Projects." Triangle  Business Journal recently named Spoonflower one of the Best Places to Work, and  the company ranked at #1009 on Inc. Magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest  growing companies in the US.

About Kornit Digital
Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT) develops, manufactures and markets  industrial and commercial printing solutions for the garment, apparel and  textile industries. Leading the digital textile printing market with its  exclusive eco-friendly NeoPigment process, it caters directly to the needs of  the entire textile printing value chain, from designers to manufacturers,  apparel decorators and fashion brands. With its immense experience in the  direct-to-garment market, Kornit Digital is also revolutionizing the roll  fabric industry with its single step solution that enables printing with a  single ink set onto multiple types of fabric and with no additional finishing  process. Founded in 2003, Kornit Digital is a global company with offices in  the USA, Asia Pacific and Europe and serves customers in more than 100  countries worldwide. For more information, visit Kornit Digital at  www.kornit.com.

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