Inkjet Print Technology from the Aspect of Textile Printing Mills

Abstract

Inkjet printing has progressed a lot as a state-of-the-art technology along with the innovation of electronics. Accordingly, it is expected that the conventional printers should be replaced quickly with inkjet ones in the textile fields. Printer manufactures have announced many times about the technical news focused on printing machines, whereas the conventional printing mills, which will be main users for inkjet machines potentially, have only a few notices. In this paper, it is focused on the processing of cellulose, especially, cotton fabrics from the aspect of a textile printing technician. The role is explained of each process: preparation, pretreatment, printing, steaming, washing and finishing in textile processing. It is very important to maintain the quality well because of the great influence on color depth and reproducibility rather than conventional printing. Turquoise dye, which represents a cyan color among the combination of CMYK, is one of the toughest dye to handle because of the slow fixation at steaming. In order to keep away from the difficulty, two processes are keys to success of pretreatment and steaming in textile inkjet printing.