Textile Printing

(Methods of printing)

Lecture# 4-6

Mujahid Mehdi Abro

Indus University Karachi.

PRINTING:
Localized coloration is known as printing.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DYEING AND PRINTING

Dyeing:
Uniform colouration along length and width of fabric
Only single colour is possible.
No difference in colour between front and back side of fabric
Aqueous dyeing medium to low viscosity
Dyeing in batchwise, continuous or semi-continuous method.
Dyeing is achieved in fibre, yarn, fabric, garment form

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DYEING AND PRINTING

Printing:
Localized coloration
Colour is applied locally in the form of design/pattern
More than one color is possible
Difference in colour between front and back side of fabric
Printing paste medium of high viscosity
Fabric printing in continuous method (open width form) only
Fabric printing is achieved in fabric and garment form.

PRINT LIKE EFFECTS

Weaving using coloured yarn

Appliqu or patch work

PRINT LIKE EFFECTS

Knitting using coloured yarn

Embroidery

Singeing
The aim : a smooth and fiber-free surface
Singeing is a thermo-mechanical process to burn out
protruding fibres, surface fibres

Desizing
o It is a process of removing size

material from the yarn/fabric.

Scouring
It is a process in which impurities like oil, fat,

wax and hand dust are remove to produce

hydrophilic and clean textile material.

Bleaching
o

It is a process of removing natural color

textile material and make white.

Mercerization

Heat setting / Stenter

o

Before printing it is a process to set the

skew and bow problems.

Skew and Bow

Fabric PH

Fabric GSM

Fabric Pilling
ICI Pilling Machine

Pilling Cutt
er

Martindale Pilling Machine

Degree Of Desize

Absorbency
Capillary Test

Drop Test

Degree Of Whiteness
Spectrophotometer

Degree Of Mercerization
Barium number

Styles of printing

Direct printing
Indirect printing
Resist
Discharge

Printing Methods
Block Printing
Transfer printing
Roller printing
Screen Printing
Flat Screen Printing
Rotary Screen Printing
Digital Printing

Block printing
The designs are carved on a wooden or
metal block and the paste dyestuff is
applied to the design on the face of the
block. The block is pressed down firmly by
hand on the surface of the fabric.

Block printing

Transfer printing

The design on a paper is transferred to a

fabric by vaporization. There are two
main processes for this- Dry Heat
Transfer Printing and Wet Heat Transfer
Printing.

Digital printing
In this form of printing micro-sized
droplets of dye are placed onto the fabric
through an inkjet printhead. The print
system
software interprets the
data supplied by academic Textiledigital
image file. The
digital image file has
the data to control the droplet output so that
the image quality and color control may
be achieved. This is the latest
development in textile printing
and is
expanding very fast. Digital Textile

Why digital printing?

High production speeds.

Quick response.

To meet changing trends of textile fashion Less wastage of stock.