Equipment

The School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University is recognized as an Ohio Center of Excellence. Our environments for learning about fashion design, production and manufacturing actively contribute to this, inlcuding our TechStyleLAB facility.

We are proud to house a wide range of advanced digital output devices including:

• Mutoh VJ-1628TD - Textile Printer. This 8-color, 2-head, high-resolution textile printer can print fabric up to 64 inches width.

• ​​​​​​Radian Laser Cutting Machine FB 1600 - 39x 60" bed. Designed for the textile and embroidery industry.

• Tajima TEHX-C1501 - Embroidery Machine. Single-head, 15-needle embroidery machine.

• Stoll ADF-3 - Knitting machine. 7.2 multi gauge machine with 32 yarn feeders. 

• Roll-Up III CalComp - Optitex Digitizing Board. GTCO CalComp portable digitizing board. 

• HP DesignJet T520 - Poster Printer. Prints resolutions up to 2400 dpi.

• Contex SD4420 - Wide Format Scanner. Optical Resolution of 1200 dpi. 

• Afina H400 3D Printer - 3D Printer. Prototypes a part or model that is up to 4.7 inches cubed with a minimum layer thickness of 0.15mm.

• GoPro Hero3 – Portable action video camera. Up to 1080p video.

• Sense 3D Scanner - Portable 3D Scanner. Full-color 3D portable scanner.

• GoPro HERO4 - Portable Camera. Mountable camera with 4K video.