Advanced Textile Printing Technology

This course would cover the fundamentals of 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.

Intro Video.
Conventional printing.
Colourants.
Dyes and pigments.
Discharge and resist printing.
Measurement of viscosity.
Thickeners.
Transfer Printing.
Free path length and mechanism of transfer.
Sublimation Transfer Printing : Paper Printing.
Transfer Printing Machines & Other Transfer Methods.
Introduction to Digital Textile Printing.
Revision and Doubt Clarification Session 1.
Digital Textile Printing: Inkjet Technologies.
Revision and Doubt Clarification Session 2.
Inkjet Technologies: drop-on-demand.
Inkjet Technologies: Machines.
Inkjet Printing.
Sublimation Transfer Printing : Dyes and inks.
Printing inks.
Water-based inks.
Water-based inks contd….