GARMENT PRINTING

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PRINTING ON GARMENT

1. Pigment Printing
2. Discharge Printing
3. Flock Printing
4. Sublimation Printing
5. Foil Printing

      1) Pigment Printing :

          Pigments are mainly synthetic organic materials. Pigment has no attraction to fiber so extra chemicals are required to facilitate it is binding, Thickeners, emulsifiers, silicone products, fixing agents, binders, deformers and softeners are required to make effective print paste. Pigment printing is done to produce elegant design by applying paste on the fabric surface. Pigments are available in particle state and the particle size range.

                                                       PIGMENT PRINTING SAMPLE

       2) Discharge Printing :

           Discharge meaning to remove specific colored area by another color or reducing by bleaching agent. There are two types of discharge printing one is color discharge and another is white discharge. In color discharge removing the dyeing color the required color is applied with discharging agent where as in white discharge method only dyed color of fabric is removed.

                                                   DISCHARGE PRINTING SAMPLE

         3) Flock Printing :

           

             Flock printing is done by depositing various flocks on the surface of the fabric. Flock printing is done on a garments and good hand feel is realized. Flocks meaning small finely cut natural or synthetic fibers may be raw color or dyed and these flocks are used on an adhesive coated surface for impart a decorative required surface of the fabric.

                                                          FLOCK PRINTING SAMPLE

        4) Sublimation Printing :
         
            Sublimation printing is a transfer printing process. Any type of design having greater complexity can easily be developed on the fabric surface. It is pigment based printing. in sublimation printing the printed design is transferred from paper to fabric surface. Surface though heat pressing and than delivered after verify.

                                                        SUBLIMATION PRINTING

       5) Foil Printing :

           Foil printing is done by the help of paper. Foil printing is a sublimation transfer printing process. There are various types of foil paper available for us in foil stamping such as gloss pigment foil paper, metallic foil paper, matte pigment foil paper etc. Foil paper is solid color which is made by buyer requirement. By foil printing process man-made and natural both types of fabric can be printed.

                                                         FOIL PRINTING SAMPLE