The development of clothing printing technology

Printing refers to the use of dyes or coatings to form images and texts on the surface of fabrics. Since the development of printing technology, a variety of printing processes such as screen printing, rotary screen printing, roller printing, and digital printing have coexisted. The various printing processes have different scopes of application, different process characteristics, and different printing equipment and consumables. As a traditional classic printing process, screen printing has a very wide range of applications and accounts for a relatively high proportion in the printing industry. In recent years, digital printing has developed rapidly, and many people think that it will replace screen printing. What are the differences between these two printing processes? Here we analyze the differences between digital printing and screen printing.

The types of printing materials are not much different

Digital printing is divided into five categories: acid digital printing, reactive digital printing, paint digital printing, dispersed thermal transfer printing, and dispersed direct injection digital printing. Digital printing acid ink is suitable for fabrics such as wool, silk and protein fibers and nylon fibers. Digital printing reactive dye ink is mainly suitable for digital printing of fabrics such as cotton, linen, viscose fibers and silk, and can be used for digital printing of natural fiber fabrics such as cotton fabrics, silk fabrics, and wool fabrics. Digital printing paint ink is suitable for digital inkjet paint printing of cotton fabrics, silk fabrics, chemical fiber and blended fabrics, knitted fabrics, sweaters, towels, and blankets. Digital printing thermal transfer ink is suitable for transfer printing of materials such as polyester, non-woven fabrics, and ceramics. Digital printing direct-jet dispersed ink is suitable for digital printing of polyester fabrics, such as decorative fabrics, flag fabrics, banners, etc.

Traditional screen printing does not have much advantage over digital printing in terms of the types of printing materials. First, there are limitations on the printing format size of traditional printing. The maximum inkjet width of large-scale industrial digital inkjet printing machines can reach 3~4 meters, and they can print continuously with no limit on length. They can even form an entire production line; second, on some materials, traditional water-based ink printing cannot achieve good performance, so only solvent-based inks can be used for printing, while digital printing can use water-based inks for inkjet printing on any material, thus avoiding the use of a large amount of flammable and explosive non-environmentally friendly solvents.

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