Digital printing is the printing with digital technology. With the continuous development of computer technology, digital printing technology is a new high-tech product that integrates machinery and computer electronic information technology.
The appearance and continuous improvement of this technology has brought a new concept to the textile printing and dyeing industry. Its advanced production principles and means have brought an unprecedented development opportunity to the textile printing and dyeing industry. As for the production of plush toys, which materials can be digitally printed.
1. Cotton
Cotton is a kind of natural fiber, especially in the fashion industry, because of its high moisture resistance, comfort and durability, it is widely used in clothing. With the textile digital printing machine, you can print on cotton cloth. In order to achieve higher quality as much as possible, most digital printing machines use active ink, because this type of ink provides the highest color fastness to washing for printing on cotton cloth.
2. Wool
It is feasible to use digital printing machine to print on wool fabric, but this depends on the type of wool fabric used. If you want to print on the “fluffy” wool fabric, it means that there is a lot of fluff on the surface of the fabric, so the nozzle must be as far away from the fabric as possible. The diameter of wool yarn is five times that of the nozzle in the nozzle, so the nozzle will be seriously damaged.
Therefore, it is very important to choose a digital printing machine that allows the printing head to print at a higher position from the fabric. The distance from the nozzle to the fabric is generally 1.5mm, which may allow you to carry out digital printing on any type of wool fabric.
3. Silk
Another natural fiber suitable for textile digital printing is silk. Silk can be printed with active ink (better color fastness) or acid ink (wider color gamut).
4. Polyester
In the past few years, polyester has become an increasingly popular fabric in the fashion industry. However, the disperse ink most commonly used for polyester printing is not good when used on high-speed digital printing machines. The typical problem is that the printing machine is polluted by ink flying ink.
Therefore, the printing factory has turned to the thermal sublimation transfer printing of paper printing, and recently successfully switched to direct printing on polyester fabrics with thermal sublimation ink. The latter needs a more expensive printing machine, because the machine needs to add a guide belt to fix the fabric, but it saves the paper cost and does not need to be steamed or washed.
5. Blended fabric
Blended fabric refers to the fabric composed of two different types of materials, which is a challenge for the digital printing machine. In textile digital printing, one device can only use one type of ink. As each material requires different types of ink, as a printing company, it must use ink suitable for the main material of the fabric. This also means that the ink will not be colored on another material, resulting in a lighter color .
Post time: Oct-28-2022