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Brazil's digital printing market hit $4.9 billion in 2025. It's projected to reach $10.6 billion by 2031.[1] Label printer imports surged 601% in a single year.[2] Sublimation ink imports rose 93%.[3]
For printing industry professionals across Latin America, these numbers represent one thing: demand is outpacing supply. The question isn't whether to expand into digital — it's who supplies the chemistry that makes expansion profitable.
INKBANK will exhibit at Future Print 2026, Latin America's largest trade show for visual communication, screen printing, and digital textile printing. Booth I255. July 14–17. Seven product lines. Physical samples across every category.
Future Print is organized by Informa Markets and now in its 36th edition — three decades as the definitive buying event for printing professionals in the Southern Hemisphere. The 2025 edition brought together 45,000+ visitors from 19 countries, 600+ exhibiting brands, and 30,000 m² of exhibition space at Distrito Anhembi in São Paulo.
The show spans digital print, textile and sublimation, screen printing, signage, packaging and labeling, and 3D printing. For Latin American print service providers and manufacturers, this is where technology evaluation turns into procurement.
UV inkjet is the fastest-growing segment in Brazil's digital print market, driven by label printer adoption, short-run packaging demand, and the ongoing shift from solvent-based to UV-curable chemistry. INKBANK's UV portfolio at Booth I255 addresses four distinct production scenarios.
For print service providers running UV flatbed and roll-to-roll equipment, we're demonstrating output across the full substrate range: rigid (metal, acrylic, KT board) and flexible (soft film, car wrap vinyl, flannelette). One ink system calibrated across all five. The value proposition is straightforward — fewer SKUs, simplified inventory, consistent color management from rigid signage to vehicle wraps.
Layered white ink deposition creates raised, tactile graphics with precise color registration. This technology is replacing traditional screen-printed badges and labels in premium applications — team branding, product authentication, high-end promotional goods — where flat print reads as cost-engineered. UV inkjet achieves the embossed effect in a single digital pass, eliminating screen preparation and reducing minimum order quantities to one.
Brazil's label printer import growth signals a supply chain in transition: hardware is arriving, but ink formulated specifically for narrow-web production speeds and local substrate profiles has not kept pace. Our Label UV-LED Ink is engineered for the adhesion and curing requirements of narrow-web production — not adapted from wide-format formulations. Wide-format 4-color UV on PET and narrow-web finishes (gloss varnish, hot stamping, process color) will both be on display.
Stand-up pouch printing via UV inkjet addresses the fastest-growing segment of the packaging market. For converters serving food and beverage, personal care, and household product brands, UV digital eliminates plate costs for short and medium runs while maintaining the durability required for retail shelf environments.
UV-DTF represents a structural shift in short-run label and decoration capability. The process produces full-color, three-dimensional transfers that can be applied to curved, textured, or irregular surfaces — metal, glass, ceramic, rigid plastic — without substrate pretreatment.
At I255, visitors can examine UV-DTF output across multiple application scenarios, including cylindrical packaging where traditional labeling methods require specialized equipment. For print businesses currently serving the promotional products, premium packaging, and brand merchandise sectors, this technology opens revenue streams that screen printing and conventional digital label presses cannot address at viable margins.
Textile is not a single-technology market. The production method depends on fabric composition, run length, finish requirements, and the destination market's regulatory environment. INKBANK is exhibiting across all four major textile printing chemistries.
DTF has become the dominant entry point for digital textile production in emerging markets, and Brazil is no exception. Our DTF Pigment Ink supports standard CMYK+W, fluorescent color, gold foil transfer, and a powder-free process that eliminates the adhesive powder application and curing step — reducing equipment footprint, labor cost, and production time per unit.
For on-demand apparel production — including stadium retail, event merchandising, and e-commerce fulfillment — DTG delivers finished garments in under ten minutes from file to product. Our DTG Pigment Ink is formulated for zero plastisol hand feel on both dark and light fabrics. In a category where print texture determines purchase decisions, this is the specification that closes sales.
Brazil's sublimation market grew 93% year-over-year in import volume, driven by sportswear, fast fashion, and soft signage demand. Our Ultra-High Concentration Sublimation Ink delivers higher pigment loading per liter — meaning lower ink consumption per linear meter at equivalent color density. For high-volume production environments, this is the cost-per-meter equation that determines profitability. Hot-stamping sublimation finishes for metallic sportswear accents complete the offering.
Polyester dominates performance and athletic wear. High-temperature disperse dye injection prints directly onto polyester fabric and, with INKBANK's no-wash process variant, eliminates the post-print washing and steaming stages entirely. For manufacturers exporting to markets governed by tightening wastewater regulations, removing post-processing steps is not a cost saving — it's a compliance requirement.
For print service providers serving the cotton, linen, and viscose segments, Reactive Dye Ink delivers the fiber bonding and wash fastness that natural fabrics demand. This chemistry completes the textile portfolio — from polyester sportswear to cotton casualwear, one supplier across the full fiber range.
Digital pigment ink is expanding beyond office and commercial print into industrial packaging and interior décor. At I255, we're demonstrating:
● Corrugated packaging pigment ink — for short-run box printing, sampling, and regionalized packaging campaigns
● Decorative paper pigment ink — wood-grain and surface texture printing for wallpaper and interior surfacing applications
These are segments where digital adoption is still in early stages, creating first-mover opportunities for print businesses that invest before the market saturates.
A dedicated display at Booth I255 presents INKBANK's current environmental compliance documentation:
GREENGUARD OEKO-TEX® ECO PASSPORT ZDHC MRSL REACH
For Latin American manufacturers exporting to EU and North American markets, upstream chemistry compliance is not optional — it is a condition of entry.
| Indicator | Figure | Strategic Implication | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital print market CAGR (2025–2031) | 13.7% | Market value doubles within five years | Mobility Foresights |
| Label printer import growth (2023–2024) | +601% | Ink supply has not kept pace with hardware adoption | 6Wresearch |
| Sublimation ink import growth (2023–2024) | +93% | Existing suppliers operating at or near capacity | 6Wresearch |
| São Paulo industry concentration | 60%+ | Critical mass of buyers within reach of the exhibition venue | Future Print |
Brazil is Latin America's largest digital textile printing ink market, and São Paulo is its industrial center of gravity. The structural shift from analog to digital production is being driven by three concurrent forces: e-commerce packaging growth (approximately +15% annually), shrinking average run lengths across textile and label segments, and regulatory pressure on solvent-based ink systems.
The UV label ink market in Brazil is currently served predominantly by European and North American manufacturers, with pricing structures that reflect multiple layers of import tariffs and distribution margins. A manufacturer offering direct technical support, flexible minimum order quantities, and chemistry formulated for local production conditions changes the competitive arithmetic for Brazilian print businesses.
Future Print 2026
Distrito Anhembi, Av. Olavo Fontoura 1209, Santana, São Paulo
July 14–17, 2026 · 13:00–20:00 daily
Booth I255 · 36 m² · 3-sided open
Our technical team will be on site throughout the exhibition. Bring your printhead specifications, substrate samples, and production requirements. We will run compatibility assessments and provide test data matched to your operating conditions.
Seven product lines. Physical samples. Technical staff on site. One conversation could change your cost-per-meter equation for the next five years.
Schedule a Meeting →Booth I255 · July 14–17 · Distrito Anhembi, São Paulo
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