Textile Wet Processing by Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury

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Textile Wet Processing by Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury

Printing

Textile Printing:

Textile printing is the process of localized application of dyes or


pigments and chemicals by any method which can produce particular
effect of colour on the fabric according to the design.

Textile Wet Processing by Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury


Printing (Continued)
Various stages of Textile Printing:

• Preparation of the fabric (singeing, desizing, scouring, bleaching, mercerizing)

• Preparation of the print paste (dye+ thickener+ other printing


ingredients/chemicals)

• Making an impression of the printing paste on the surface of fabric (actual printing
is done
according to design by different styles and methods)

• Drying of the printed fabric (at 100-1100C by dryer according to types of fabric)

• Steaming of the printed fabric (for the fixation of dyes with fibre)

• After treatment (soaping, washing to remove unfixed dyes, thickeners from the
fabric
surface)
Textile Wet Processing by Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury
Printing (Continued)

Essential ingredients of a print paste:

• Dyestuffs or pigments
• Wetting agents
• Solvents, dispersing agents
• Thickeners
• Defoaming agents
• Oxidizing and reducing agents
• Catalysts and oxygen carriers
• Acids and alkalis
• Carriers and swelling agents
• Miscellaneous agents

Textile Wet Processing by Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury


Textile Wet Processing by Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury

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