Fashion Printing (时尚印花)

Basics

Fabric may be from woven or knitted construction.
Material may be from cellulose or artificial fiber.
The construction may be incoherent or firm and tight, open or tense, elastic in length and/or width etc.
The fabric surface may be flat or structured jacquard, rip, velour, plush or others.
Fabric weight may range from 20 g/m² up to 300 g/m².

Printing Methods

Fashion may be printed with any type of machine and process:

RotaSCREEN - ZIMMER AUSTRIA Klagenfurt - 001

ROTASCREEN.PRINTING

This is the method for mass production:

Fast print speed of up to 100 m/min
Limited repeat
Limited number of colors

MagnoPRINT - ZIMMER AUSTRIA Klagenfurt - 001

FLATSCREEN.PRINTING

This was the preferred method in the past and is still used widely:

Simple but labour-intensive process
Limited number of colors

COLARIS.TEXTILE PRINTER

| Inkjet printing

The most flexible method of the future - already available;

Highest flexibility in design and colors
Not all type of dye systems can be used

Printing on Cellulose and Protein Fiber based Fabrics

Cellulose based fabric can be printed with Reactive or VAT dye inks.
PA (Nylon) and Protein fiber based fabrics are mostly printed with Acid dye inks.
Pigment inks may be used on fabric made from any fiber or yarn blend.
Reactive prints are known for brilliant and bright print results with good washing fastness, but have a limited light fastness, especially with red shades.
Acid dye prints are very bright, but have limited light fastness properties. Chlorine fastness is poor.
VAT dye inks have excellent light and wash fastness properties, including chlorine bleach. For real high-end fabrics, VAT dye inks are the best solution.
Pigment inks are good for high light fastness, but have poor haptics and a low resistance against dry and wet rubbing.

Printing on PES Fabrics

On PES and PES Microfiber fabrics, direct disperse and direct sublimation inks are used.
PES inks give bright and brilliant prints and have excellent light, rub and wash fastness properties.

Printing Process

Reactive printing

Inkjet pre-treatment for the fabric
Design printing with COLARIS systems using Reactive dye inks
Drying

Offline processing

Ink fixation through steaming process
Post-print washing to clear the fabric from unfixed dyes and pre-treatment chemicals
Final fabric finishing according to the customer's individual needs

VAT dye printing

Inline inkjet pre-treatment applied by the CHROMOJET digital pre-coating unit
Design printing with COLARIS with VAT dye inks
Inline fixation for about 40 seconds by steam process
Inline post-print neutralization and washing-out of unfixed dyes and pre-treatment chemicals
Final fabric finishing according to the customer's individual needs

COLARIS.PIGMENT PRINTING

Inkjet pre-treatment of the fabric
Design printing with COLARIS with inline drying
Rub fastness improvement by applying a fixing agent, followed by a polymerization process
Final fabric finishing according to the customer's individual needs

Option: Mechanical finishing to improve the fabric's haptics.

Disperse and direct sublimation dye printing

Inkjet pre-treatment of the fabric
Design printing with COLARIS with direct disperse or direct sublimation inks
Post-print drying - inline right after printing
HT steam fixation in a loop steamer for 8 to 10 minutes
Reductive washing and vacuum extraction for high light and rubbing fastness

Option: Inline inkjet pre-treatment applied by the CHROMOJET digital pre-coating unit
Option: SUPRAPRESS penetration support
Option: Inline fixation for about 4 minutes

Printing Machines

As most of the fabrics come with a width of 1,400 to 1,600 mm, the COLARIS.PRINTER with 1,800 mm working width will cover the demand easily.

COLARIS.INFINITI PRINTER

Equipped with SPT 1024 printheads (in combination with Dystar COLARIS inks), this is the most economic printer in the market.

COLARIS.TEXTILE PRINTER

Equipped with FUJIFILM Dimatix StarFire™ printheads, this printer is perfect for high-volume printing and for special applications.

The ReadyJet™ ink circulation system guarantees sufficient ink availability at any working condition.
The ink circulation prevents the sedimentation of solid ink particles. This is important especially when printing with VAT dyes or Pigment inks.
The COLARIS.PRINTER concept allows a flexible layout, especially in regard to the requirement of different ink dye classes.
The open ink system offers ink selection from various manufacturers present in the market.