Advanced Textile Printing Technology

This course would cover the fundamentals conventional printing, the complexities and limitations. Introduce the concept of transfer printing and mainly cover the sublimation transfer printing which is commercially being used. The next logical development in textile printing has been the direct digital printing of textiles. The concept, the advantage,principles of ink-jet technology, complexities involved, general machinery, the inks and requirements of pre- and post treatments.INTENDED AUDIENCE :Students, teachers and persons working in textile industry, textile chemical processingPREREQUISITES : Should have basic knowledge of dyeing and printing, would help if has studied courses in textile chemical processing.lINDUSTRY SUPPORT : Not any in particular, All textile processing industries would value

Week 1: Recall conventional printing, colourants: dyes and pigments
Week 2: Thickeners, viscosity, rheology, discharge –resist style
Week 3:Transfer printing, transfer paper printing, dyes and inks
Week 4: Mechanism of sublimation transfer, Free path length , general machinery
Week 5: Introduction to digital printing, ink-jet printing principles: continuous jetting
Week 6: Drop-on-demand principle, general machinery
Week 7: Pre-treatment, ink-types and substrate, pigment inks
Week 8: Disperse inks, acid inks , reactive inks