If an EU brand has put a textile order on hold because the inks running through your sublimation printer lack OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT, the document you are missing is not on the machine. The XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer is supplied with textile printing inks and pastes covered by OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certificate SH150194016, issued by TESTEX AG and valid globally. The printer itself is covered by CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC.

Those two documents answer two different buyer questions: whether the equipment conforms, and whether the chemistry that will be permanently bonded into the buyer's fabric has been verified for textile use. Most blocked orders in this scenario are released once the two are separated, checked against their scope, and filed against the right question. The sections below walk through the block, the fix, and the verification steps to complete before you reply.

XinFlying builds roll-to-roll digital textile sublimation printers for polyester fabric production, including compliance-led programmes where ink documentation is part of the order file.

Why a CE-Certified Sublimation Printer Can Still Miss an EU Textile Order

A blocked EU order in this scenario almost never starts with a broken machine. It starts with a document mismatch. The producer installs a sublimation printer that carries CE marking, prints acceptable samples, and then loses momentum at the brand's compliance desk because the ink documentation cannot be produced on request.

The CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC covers the XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer. Its scope is the equipment — the unit a mill installs, powers, and operates. It is not a statement about the ink that the machine jets onto transfer paper and that the heat press then bonds permanently into the buyer's polyester fabric.

That is where the order stalls. The buyer's technical team may clear the machine file without discussion, while the chemical or sustainability team raises a separate request for the printing inks and pastes. Two departments, two questions, one purchase order. If only one document exists, the order stays on hold even though the equipment was never the problem.

The practical fix is therefore not a new compliance strategy. It is a supply route in which both documents already exist for the same system: the XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer on the machine side, and OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certificate SH150194016 on the ink and paste side.

The Two Questions EU Buyers Keep Separate

Compliance teams treat machine conformity and chemical conformity as separate tracks, because in regulatory and commercial practice they are separate.

Question one — equipment: can this machine be placed on the EU market, installed, and operated? This is answered by documentation at machine level, and for the system discussed here by CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC covering the XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer.

Question two — chemistry: has the ink or paste that will end up in the delivered textile been verified under a recognised textile chemical framework? This is answered by OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certificate SH150194016, issued by TESTEX AG, covering textile printing inks and pastes and valid globally.

Sublimation printing makes question two unavoidable rather than optional. In dye sublimation printing, the dye is converted to gas under heat and diffuses into polyester fibres, so the ink becomes part of the finished article rather than a layer sitting on top of it. A buyer reviewing a finished garment therefore has a direct reason to ask what chemistry was used to produce it — and a certificate number is the fastest possible answer.

Industry Background: More Sublimation Volume, Tighter Documentation Habits

The commercial backdrop explains why this documentation request keeps appearing in sublimation production. Grand View Research values the global dye sublimation printing market at USD 16.4 billion in 2025, projected to reach USD 39.0 billion by 2033, with a CAGR of 11.5% from 2026 to 2033. The same source reports that Asia Pacific held a 36.5% revenue share in 2025, led by China. Mordor Intelligence sizes the dye sublimation printer segment specifically at USD 1.88 billion in 2025, expected to reach USD 2.53 billion by 2030. Fortune Business Insights values the wider large format printer market at USD 10.57 billion in 2025, projected to reach USD 16.52 billion by 2034. China's textile and garment exports reached USD 293.6 billion in 2023, according to The Cannata Report citing Grand View Research.

None of those figures decides a single order. They describe the environment in which digital textile printing capacity is being bought: growing volumes, more production moving through textile printing ink systems, and procurement teams that now ask for chemical documentation as a routine line item rather than an exception.

On the buyer side, restricted-substance programmes and manufacturing restricted substances lists have become standard practice for EU apparel and home textile brands. In that framework, an ink certificate is not a marketing extra — it is the evidence that a print supplier can be included in a brand's production base at all.

The Fix: XF-450PRO Documentation Pack

The XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer is supplied with textile printing inks and pastes that are covered by OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certificate SH150194016, issued by TESTEX AG and valid globally. The machine itself is covered by CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC.

Read together, those two documents close both questions above with the same equipment: a certificate number for the machine, and a certificate number for the chemistry that will be bonded into the buyer's polyester fabric.

What the ink certificate does for the order

OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT is a certification route for chemical products used in textile manufacturing, which is why it is the document frequently requested when a brand's restricted-substance programme extends to inks and pastes. Certificate SH150194016 covers the textile printing inks and pastes associated with the XF-450PRO programme and is issued by TESTEX AG with global validity. For a producer, that converts a verbal assurance into a verifiable reference: certificate number, issuing body, and defined scope.

What the machine certificate does for the order

CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC covers the XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer. It is the equipment-level document that supports placing and operating the machine, and it is the answer to the technical team's question rather than the chemical team's question. Keeping that boundary explicit prevents the most common mistake in this scenario: presenting one certificate as if it answered both requests.

Manufacturer and production background

The XF-450PRO is produced by Guangzhou Xin Flying Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (XINFLYING), a manufacturer of digital printing equipment established in 2010 and located at No.7, Xiecun 2nd Industrial Zone, Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong. The manufacturing facility covers 37,440 square meters, employs more than 200 staff, includes an R&D team of 20 engineers, and has an annual production capacity exceeding 20,000 units. The product range covers DTF printers, UV DTF printers, UV printers, DTG printers and dye sublimation printers, together with printing consumables and complete digital printing solutions.

That breadth matters less for the certificate itself than for what happens after it: documentation, spare parts, and technical support coming from the same organisation that built the machine.

XinFlying XF-19E8-PRO: a 190 cm industrial sublimation printer used in high-volume polyester textile production, where ink documentation is checked before an EU order is released.

Six Verification Steps Before You Answer the Buyer

Step 1 — Establish exactly which document the buyer requested. Compliance questionnaires often merge machine safety, electromagnetic compatibility and chemical restrictions into one request line. Ask the buyer to confirm whether the request concerns the equipment or the inks and pastes. In most blocked sublimation orders, it is the inks.

Step 2 — Split your own file into two parts. One folder for the machine, one for consumables. Mixing them is what produces the situation where a supplier sends a CE document in response to a chemical question and the buyer's chemistry team rejects it as non-responsive.

Step 3 — Verify the ink certificate on its own terms. Check the certificate number SH150194016, the issuing body TESTEX AG, the scope (textile printing inks and pastes), and the geographic validity (global). Confirm that what you actually load into production matches what the certificate describes.

Step 4 — Verify the machine certificate and its model coverage. CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC covers the XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer. The model named on the document must be the model you are shipping; a certificate that names a different model is not evidence for this order.

Step 5 — Match the documents to the shipment, not to the catalogue. Confirm the machine model on the order and the ink or paste used for that specific production run. Where a producer operates several models, certificate scope should be confirmed line by line rather than assumed across the range.

Step 6 — Reply with two documents and file them. Send the machine certificate and the ink certificate as separate attachments, each labelled with the question it answers. Then keep both in the order file so the next order from the same brand does not restart the same exchange.

Where the XF-450PRO Fits in Production: Use Cases

The XF-450PRO is a digital textile printer classified as a sublimation printer, and the compliance scenario above appears across several production profiles:

• EU brand apparel and sportswear programmes. Polyester-based garments, jerseys and teamwear, where the brand's chemical requirements extend to the printing ink used in production.
• Home textiles and decorative fabric. Cushions, throws and decorative panels printed on polyester where a retail brand requires chemical documentation before listing.
• Soft signage, flags and banners. Roll-to-roll sublimation work in which the buyer's procurement team mirrors the same documentation request used for apparel.
• Sampling and approval runs. Low-volume production for brand approval, where the certificate set is reviewed alongside the sample rather than after the bulk order.

XinFlying XF-O2000-4I32A1 supports textile sublimation work in clothing, home decor, canvas bags, cushions and flags — applications where finished-goods buyers increasingly ask for ink documentation.

If order volume grows: related XinFlying sublimation printers

When an EU programme scales from sampling to continuous output, capacity is usually added with a second or larger machine. The table below lists related XinFlying sublimation printers by published configuration. Note that certificate scope must be confirmed per model and per ink system before it is cited to a buyer — the ECO PASSPORT reference above concerns the XF-450PRO ink and paste route.

Roll-to-roll sublimation printers with widths around 1.9 m (1900 mm) are described by FESPA market insights as standard for high-volume textile and soft signage applications, which is why the 190 cm class of machine tends to sit at the centre of compliance-led production planning.

XinFlying XF-H1802X-2I32A1: a 180 cm wide-format sublimation printer used for polyester fabric production, sampling and small-batch brand orders.

Comparison Table: CE Certificate of Compliance vs OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT

The two documents solve different problems for the same order. Comparing them side by side is the fastest way to explain the block to a buyer — and to stop answering the wrong question.

A supplier who can name both certificates, in the right order, removes the ambiguity that keeps orders on hold.

FAQ: OEKO-TEX Ink Certification and the XF-450PRO

Conclusion: The Order Is Not Blocked by the Machine

When an EU textile order stops because of missing OEKO-TEX ink certification, the machine is usually the one element of the production line that was never in question. CE Certificate of Compliance BSTXD211021006201EC covers the XF-450PRO Digital Textile Printer; OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certificate SH150194016, issued by TESTEX AG and valid globally, covers the textile printing inks and pastes. Naming both documents, verifying their scope, and filing them against the right buyer question is what releases the order.

For producers planning their next EU programme, the useful habit is to treat the two certificates as two separate attachments from the first sample exchange onward — equipment evidence and chemistry evidence, both available on request, both traceable by number.

XinFlying sublimation printer series — documentation, samples and quotations are available on request.