The new wave of Digital Fabric Printing Technology

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The new wave of Digital Fabric Printing Technology

• Historical review in textile printing
• Textile printing is a method by which fabrics are
  printed in various colors, arts and designs. It
  is a very old art developed and created on
  fabrics in Egypt during 5000 B.C. Fabrics also
  found printed in Greek during 4th century. B.C,
  also it is noted that printing blocks were
  sourced from India in 5th century. B.C. During
  that time, France acknowledged as popular center
  of this type of cloth production and printing.
  Japan was popular for adding stencil work in wood
  by making blocks and further by pasting dies and
  prints it in fabrics.

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• In the Mid-15th Century, with the invention of
  printing press by John Gutenberg there was a
  drastic change seen in printing technology and
  textile printing like polyesters for transfer
  printing. After practicing by William Caxton in
  England, there was a remarkable widespread seen
  in relief printing technology in 1476. In sixteen
  and seventeen century with the export of spices,
  India became major provider of printing fabrics
  and products, like calico, pajama, gingham,
  dungaree, chintz and khaki according to the
  requirement of European countries. Then by the
  efforts by Grant, Thomas Bell and many printers,
  with the invention of wood block (1760), copper
  block (1770) and copper roller (1797) printing
  technology in the eighteenth century, especially
  the trend of cotton printing spread, still it can
  be seen at the Toile de Jouy Museum.

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• Development in last two decades
• With the improvement in the printing technology,
  color inkjet printers played an important role in
  digital fabrics for the consumer market in the
  late 1980s. That time Canon and Hewlett-Packard
  became leaders in the printing technology.
  Canon's Bubble Jet printers were received so
  acceptance in the market. Again latest technology
  geared up in their improvement with the existence
  of a large format color inkjet printer - the Iris
  printer in the 1990s, but that technology was not
  considered as ideal tool for the fabrics due to
  light sensitive color problem, rather it was
  accepted for paper printing.

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• Earlier, direct printing method used for fabric
  like the polyesters for transfer printing with
  the computer and the printing is made with the
  computer inks it was the time where fabric was
  printed using only black images or text because
  of the availability of only laser printers and
  ribbon printers and there were no color printers.
  In 1999 Bubble Jet Set printing technology
  developed, which permits fabric to be treated,
  amalgamated to freezer paper with an iron and
  then operate through an ink jet printer.
• For more information Mail id- info_at_inkjetfabrics.
  com, Contact Number- 707 473 9080,
  http//www.inkjetfabrics.com/, Address- 2
  Neshaminy Interplex Dr.- Suite 209 - Feasterville
  -Trevose, PA 19053, USA.
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