Codus Holdings Limited
For technical reasons it has proved very difficult to print onto leather in a way that maintains the key characteristics of the product. Ink simply does not bond well to the non-uniform, organic, complex substrate. Codus Holdings Limited has patents pending for the world's first 'fit for purpose, state-of-the-art, digital industrial leather printing machine and process'. There are many traditional ways to finish leather; dyeing, embossing with a grain, foil embossing, brushing, buffing, hand painting, staining etc. But there is no traditional way to put a high definition, multi-coloured image onto leather robustly on a commercial scale. In recent decades there have been advances in print technologies and there have been and continue to be attempts to print leather. The problem is that most existing processes are 'adapted' surface print technologies, where the ink does not bond easily. Based on extensive research of other leather printing technologies, we believe our process is unique. We fuse the image to the leather. The ink drops are embedded into the surface of the leather using our proprietary technology. The full colour image is stable, robust and colourfast without the need for characteristic impeding coatings. And we can do this at very high definition (over 1,400 dpi). We lead the way in terms of quality, robustness, definition and fastness with the introduction of Codus ImageFuse® Technology.
