Printing on textiles

The term textile printing is used to describe the production of colored designs or patterns on textile substrates through a combination of various mechanical and chemical means. In printing on textiles, a localized dyeing process takes place, whereby in general the chemical and physical parameters of dyeing apply. 

Printing on textiles is one of the major areas of pigment application and is usually considered separately from the graphics industry. Requirements to be met by pigments for this purpose depend especially on the expected performance of the final article, the printed textile (Sec. 1.6.2.4). 

Aquaprint [BASF]. TM for a resin-bonded pigment color for printing on textiles. The vehicle, an oil-in-water emulsion, contains a water-insoluble binder that adheres to the fibers and anchors the color permanently to the cloth. 

Alcoprint . [Allied Colloids] Binder, pigment dispersant softening agent thickener for pigment printing on textiles. 

Luprimol . [BASF AG] Improves hand ci pigment prints on textiles. 

USE Manuf matches and special explosives as mordant in dyeing and printing on textiles mordant for staining horn, mother-of-pearl oxidizer in dye industry sensitizer in photography process engraving. 

Momin, N.H., 2008. Chitosan and Improved Pigment Ink Jet Printing on Textiles. Doctor of Philosophy. RMIT, University, Melbourne Australia. 

Tlie develc mient of inkjet printing on textiles... 

The personalized nature of the experience of color questions both our ability and our need to control color. Much of the need for calibration is about control, and this is understandably necessary when mistakes can be extremely costly. However, calibration across all of the components in the supply chain for ink jet printing on textiles is enormously difficult and remains tricky at best, so it might be argued that this need for control can also be costly. Sometimes a valid question is whether there is a sound financial reason for the control, or whether it is in fact driven by emotion. In color management, context is more crucial than control. Must a particular product match repeatedly across the ranks, or briefly across the racks Calibration needs to be undertaken with an understanding of the final context and a realistic assessment of possibilities and probabilities, of what might happen, and what will happen. There are producers who aim to standardize a product for a market, yet according to seasonal... 

Momin, N., 2008. Chitosan and improved pigment inkjet printing on textiles (Doctoral thesis). Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology [RMIT], Melbourne, Australia. 

Print heads both form and deliver the drop and are often described using terms that describe these two actions. Regarding the formation of the drop, there are several methods, with the following two types being the most commonly used for ink jet printing on textile substrates ... 

The term ink rather than dye has perhaps been retained within ink jet printing on textiles, as the properties and quantities appropriate for ink jets are more like ink than the glutinous pastes customarily used in textile printing. For the ink to pass through the tiny jet nozzles, some of the ingredients from the textile print paste have instead been incorporated into preprint treatments applied to the cloth prior to printing, as discussed in Chapter 5 of this book. Colorants in textile printing are more commonly referred to as dyes or dyestuffs, and this plural term indicates that there are many different types... 

Ink ingredients and formulations are affected by social and legislative pressure for safety and sustainability to encourage ink reformulations for ink jet printing on textiles... 

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