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Understanding digital textile inks

June 2004

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Digital textile printing has created the potential for digital printing to displace screenprinting in short, medium and even some high-quantity production runs on the basis of quality, cost, and speed. New high-speed digital inkjet printers, specialized inks, and precise color-management software that streamline the textile printing process support this transition. Faster printers enable longer production runs and improve cost efficiency, and durable inks, with improved reliability, improve productivity and produce goods suitable for the consumer. In the digital printing process ink viscosity is an important difference. Low-viscosity, aqueous-based fluids, which can be jetted through the inkjet printhead, replace traditional screenprinting paste inks. DuPont, US, has applied its knowledge and experience to develop inks specifically for its DuPont™ 2020 printer, with ink properties matched to the design specifications of the printhead, so as to achieve excellent print reliability.

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India is set to emerge as one of the powerhouses of digital textile printing

January 2010

John Provost

India is likely to emerge as one of the powerhouses of digital textile printing. The major international digital-textile print machinery manufacturers are actively forming partnerships with established digital-printing equipment distributors, ready to develop sales as the Indian digital-textile printing market continues its upward growth. Ichinose of Japan are represented in India by Kothari ... [Show full abstract] Infotech Limited, which also supplies color management software for both 'roll-to-roll' textile and direct-to-garment (DTG) digital-printing markets - software that is sold globally through the company's OEM partners. Stork, through its Indian subsidiary Stovec Industries, markets its own range of digital-textile print machines and digital-textile inks into the Indian market. The other major development in the Indian digital-textile printing market is the first installation of the Isis high-speed digital-textile printer, developed and manufactured by Osiris Inkjet Systems BV of Holland. There are a few Indian chemical manufacturers like Jaysynth Ltd, with its DiGiTEX series of textile inks, supplying both the domestic market and the export market.

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Novel Micro Piezo Technology for Ink Jet Printhead

January 2007 · NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference

Micro Piezo technology is offering superior features in ink ejection performance, compatibility with a wide variety of inks, and durability. As a result, this technology has already being utilized effectively in various commercial and industrial fields such as photo lab printing, digital printing, textile printing, and color filter manufacturing. However, new printheads that have a larger number ... [Show full abstract] of nozzles and higher performance are constantly required to improve printing speed or productivity, both for commercial products and industrial applications. We have succeeded to develop a next-generation Micro Piezo printhead, which has 360 nozzles-per-inch and piezo elements of 1 micrometer of thickness. In spite of the nozzle density doubled, this printhead retains all the advantages of the current Micro Piezo printheads, including the ability to produce variable sized droplets and the capability to eject ink droplets at high frequency. The installation of next-generation Micro Piezo printheads in printers and other devices will make it possible to design speedier and more compact inkjet equipments than ever before. In this paper, the key to improve the printhead performance and increasing nozzle density is studied. Then, the structure and characteristics of the next-generation Micro Piezo printhead are described.

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October 2008 · Review of Progress in Coloration and Related Topics

T L Dawson

Ink jet printers, some capable of producing a full colour gamut, are now widely used as output devices for computer-generated design work. Some advances have been made in the application of these ink jet paper printing technologies to textile printing, mainly for carpets. This review describes the principal jet systems that have been developed commercially for both textile and reprographic uses, ... [Show full abstract] and indicates areas in which the ink jet principle appears to have future potential. The physical and chemical requirements of the inks used in the different systems, as well as the possible pretreatment of the substrate to improve ink receptivity and the durability of the print, are also discussed.

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Advance of the digital dream

June 2004

J. Scrimshaw

NUMTEX, France's digital printing conference and exhibition, organized by the regional textile association, the Pôle Textile Alsace, was held at the Parc Expo on the edge of Mullhouse from March 17-18, 2004. Mutoh and Mimaki printers, with a variety of ancillary equipment and software, were shown by Fian Design System, Dua Graphic Systems (DGS), Mautom SAS, and major French distributor Studio FX. ... [Show full abstract] Italy's Macchine e Servizi (MS), emerging as a leading player in the digital market, displayed several new systems such as MS Coat & Print fabric printer, with integral pretreatment, the MS-Jetshirt garment printer, and the MS Washer. The UK's Printos demonstrated the versatility of its new printhead technology, which is suitable for pile fabrics and for deep-penetration applications such as flags and banners. Color management software was represented by Germany's active online GmbH, whilst, among the major ink producers, only DyStar had its own stand.

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High Color Performance in Industrial Application of Textile Ink Jet Printing

January 2000 · NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference

Shiau Yin Peggy Chang

Since ink jet printing on textile is currently limited in sampling and small lot production with far slower speed (2m2/min) than conventional textile printing (50 m2/min) in average, screen printing will be applied for "large lot" production in the industry before the complete domination by the digital process. The colors presented with dots by digital ink-jet machines should be made equivalent ... [Show full abstract] to those with blocks by conventional textile printers. The color matching between the sampling and the industrial production can be achieved by mixing colors for ink elements to make the color difference (ΔE) < 1. The technology of mixing colors in this article involved the ink formulation which imparted the stability and compatibility of colorants, and the color management on customer demand. With the arising appeal for the cleaner production process, advanced pretreatment with no wash-off step on fabrics were investigated with the application of hydrophilic copolymers to present better ink-textile interactive performance (sharpness, color yield, etc.) and good durability. With the benefit of modified color system and effective fabric treatment will promise the quick response manufacturing linked to near-future innovation, e.g., body-scanning, CAD tailoring, and internet ordering workshop.

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June 1995

John Provost

With the increased pressure from the developing printing markets in the Far East, textile printers in the U.S. and Europe must respond with both increased quality and shorter time of response. This means supplying customers with new design concepts, printed samples in a wide range of colors and bulk prints in a time frame unheard of only a few years ago. One area that has consequently seen ... [Show full abstract] considerable development in the U.S. and Europe is in the important pre-printing and design selection area, particularly CAD systems and the recent introduction of ink jet printing of textile samples with reactive dyes. There is equal pressure on the textile printer to produce bulk prints in an environmentally acceptable manner, to a high quality standard and in as short a time as possible. The printer must adopt an integrated approach to both dye selection and processing methods in an attempt to achieve quality prints with higher productivity by minimizing machine downtime.