New Trends of Inkjet Printing Technology for Digital Textile

Abstract

Inkjet printers, especially, single-pass types are progressing significantly. It is strongly expected to replace conventional types of rotary and flat bed screens to the new types. In order to ensure bringing inkjet printers into the full production, it is indispensable to meet the market requirements. First of all, as the role of inks is very important, there are a lot of new approaches from the ink side;increasing color strength including darker blacks to reduce unnecessary water, brighter colors to cover up wider color space, new dye type of Vat to improve colorfastness, improved pigments as universal colorants to handle all materials with a single ink set. On the other hand, proposals can be seen from the printer side as well.