DIGITAL INKJET PRINTING

SUBMITTED BY:BY:NEHA KANFADE NEHA KAUSHIK NIKHIL JAIN

Digital Fabric/Textile Printing



The digital fabrics printing technology is existed since last decade, it emerged after 1994. It is a skill that prints the designs on fabric, immediately from your computer, without extra efforts just like printing and designing a paper. Digital textile printing is a flexible tool and a key acceptable to the vision of mass customization. It permits the user to evade the screen making process, offering the chance for quick changes to color or design elements prior to printing.

Advantages of digital fabric printing over traditional printing technology



Advantage of using this type of method is that you can have three dimensional effects due to its color separation and layers In the field of printed textile design with the latest digital fabric printing technology it enhanced the style and meaning of printed textile design Digital printing profits over conventional printing it provide noteworthy benefits like quick turn-around, efficient set-up and turnsetspeed, economical and great flexibility, takes less time, alteration possible etc. In today's customer oriented market the printing technology is not limited to wearing wears; but it bounds to its limits and reaches to the requirements of trade show graphics, picture of huge fabric posters of television and movie stars, advertising purposes, flags and banners and many mores

From digital textile printing technology you can have latest innovative and creative deigns like concepts of shadow, shimmering, vibration, reflection, moire, optical, translucent, netting, blurring, layering, superimposing, etc., instead of making special efforts with traditional methods of printing. The main benefit of digital fabric printing is in its process color application with its latest printers, software applications. Photographic and tonal graphics shaped millions of colors with Photoshop and can be printed on fabric according to the color combination requirement. Wider color scope and finer printing quality are available with the latest development of inks, color management software

Digital Printing Advantages



Design achieved with greater flexibility, without the limitation of on repeat size, colors, engineered designs and gets outstanding depiction of continuous tone (photographic) images The digital printing equipment not requires much infrastructure and it is comparatively available in less cost Drastically trim down time to market the products It also decrease the use of water, dyes & solutions hence acts as an environmentally friendly tool It decreases industrial waste and print loss, provides centralize manufacturing facility Mass customization requirements easily available in short time Availability of fast greater speed of operation, high resolution / drop Size & configuration with spot colors combination or color control without lack of standards

Types of Digital Fabric Printing Technologies

There are various types of digital printing technology available in market like
       

Thermal DOD Ink jet Piezoelectric DOD ink jet, Airbrush/valve jet, Electrostatic (sublimation & resin), Thermal transfer, Electro photography (Laser, LED), Photographic development, Continuous ink jet (CIJ) etc.

DOD Ink jet Fabric Printing Method



DOD Ink jet printing method bring a drop of ink or dyes only when needed for printing that is why it is called drops on demand ( DOD ), i.e. it works on the principal "only when and where required in the design. This system works as environment friendly, because of its "no paste, no waste "method, and the complete color reaches to the fabric.

Piezoelectric DOD Ink jet Fabric Printing Method



It uses electrostatic forces for arrangement and spraying of micro drops of inks or dyes in fabric printing. Here high voltages are applied to piezoelectric crystals for producing directional current. The advantage of using this methods are it formulation directional ink, where inks not heated , hence less expensive, printing heads works at its cycles per second and provides high resolution by applying small drop size of inks or dyes.

Electrostatic Sublimation Transfer Printing



Sublimation is a method whereby a solid dyes turns exactly into a gas without passing through a liquid state, can be transferred to a fabric (e.g. polyester) and re-solidify as a solid color again. reDye sublimation is a two-step process that needs twoadditional equipment to the electrostatic printers for dyedye-sub. It also requires a special paper for heating at the heat press; electrostatic printer. It is also called sublimation transfer printing. These inks or dyes can be printed onto paper from either a silkscreen process or from printers attached with ribbons with the sublimation inks. These papers then can transmit images onto fabrics.

Direct ink jet transfer method



The direct ink jet transfer method is direct transfer, or printing directly onto fabric with an inkjet printer. This process expensive and the fabrics require to be coated in order to effectively allow the inks or dyes.

Continuous ink jet fabric printing method



The ink is constantly pushed out of the ink channel by a pump by a nozzle attached with a PZT material and it generates an "ink-jet". "inkUsing an electrical power on the PZT material, the nozzle shakes, breaches the ink jet into droplets of ink and used for printing fabrics. Continuous ink jet fabric printing method also available with its binary hertz operation and multimulti-deflection system.

Software application in digital fabric printing



For digital fabric printing Color management Systems (CMS, Calibration), Raster Image Processor (RIP), printer driver software, design lay out software (CAD), etc are widely used.

Textile Printing Trends



The world wide trends: Decline in US print production, there seems growth of Asian print production and decreasing production run lengths, demand for greater design variety, demand for shorter production cycles and demand for reduced inventory risk. Cotton is the most frequently printed material (48% of printing production), followed by cotton/polyester blends (19%), polyester (15%), and viscose (13%). From a worldwide viewpoint, other material (e.g. polyamide, polyacrylic, wool and silk) involve with a little part. Digital textile production has been increasing at about 13% worldwide. The worldwide volume of digitally-printed textiles has been reaching digitallyabout 44 million square meters by 2005. Due to the high quality performance, in short time the availability of products, multidiscipline design, eco-friendly , cost- effective , etc ecocostadvantages in digital textile printing technology, there exits a new market opportunities for this technology and it will be applicable to, backgrounds printing, scenes for theaters, film studios, photographers, music and sports events, road shows, parades, high profile catering, presidential campaigns, promotion organizers, advertising agencies, universities, churches, parties, for hanging signs, displays systems, packing, for sampling, for prototyping and new designs sampling, short run production, for interior designers to make curtains, upholstery, table cloth, bed ware etc.

Chromotex Digital Ink jet Printing Machine by Zimmer

Digital Printing on Apparel

Inkjet printing has following advantages and disadvantages.

        

 

No screens are required. Unlimited colours can be used in a design. Compact system. Less production. Low lost of design production for short runs. No or little pretreatment required. Low speed 2 - 20 yds/hour. Low cost of change over. All fabrics including woven, knitted, lace, carpets, seatseat-belts, webbing, paper, outdoor fleece, non woven, highly textured fabric, flags, ties, pre-cut fabrics, preflocked and piled goods. Photographic images can be printed. No repeat size limitation.

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