Recent trends in printing is not just designing, preparing screens and printing to get designs on the garment, but the combination of different designs with difference types of printing to make it more and more attractive.
Garments’ printing is a field which is given a less attention among various fields in manufacturing of garments. Earlier days printing was primarily done on kids garments in order to make it more attractive. But now as trend changes lot of adults garments is also being printed with various designs which add value to the garments.
Garment printing is one of most important fields where various techniques can be adopted for value addition of the garment. Puff printing, metallic printing, khadi printing and plastizol printing are some important garment printing effects.
Puff printing: In this method when the paste is printed and dries it look like normal printing garments but once it is cured the prints gets raised from the surface of fabric. Thereby the print will have the embroidered effect.
Metallic printing: Metallic printing consists of a mixture of binder with gold, copper bronze or aluminum powder and other auxiliaries. Here the fine powders of the above varieties will give different kinds of shades, silver tone. This is used mainly on ladies garments to give a rich look.
Khadi printing: This is done on light or dark colored grounds. It consists of titanium dioxide with other auxiliaries. The important factor in printing of this is right combination of titanium dioxide and proper choice of binder will give better fastness and soft handle.
Plastizol printing: Plastizol printing is the latest printing technique for last 5-6 years in India. The inks contain polyvinyl. Chlorides mixed with resins and pigments these inks have got a property by which the prints get dried only with the application of that. They have soft handle and resist cracking when stretched. Main thing is curing process in plastizol printing.
Garments’ printing is a field which is given a less attention among various fields in manufacturing of garments. Earlier days printing was primarily done on kids garments in order to make it more attractive. But now as trend changes lot of adults garments is also being printed with various designs which add value to the garments.
Garment printing is one of most important fields where various techniques can be adopted for value addition of the garment. Puff printing, metallic printing, khadi printing and plastizol printing are some important garment printing effects.
Puff printing: In this method when the paste is printed and dries it look like normal printing garments but once it is cured the prints gets raised from the surface of fabric. Thereby the print will have the embroidered effect.
Metallic printing: Metallic printing consists of a mixture of binder with gold, copper bronze or aluminum powder and other auxiliaries. Here the fine powders of the above varieties will give different kinds of shades, silver tone. This is used mainly on ladies garments to give a rich look.
Khadi printing: This is done on light or dark colored grounds. It consists of titanium dioxide with other auxiliaries. The important factor in printing of this is right combination of titanium dioxide and proper choice of binder will give better fastness and soft handle.
Plastizol printing: Plastizol printing is the latest printing technique for last 5-6 years in India. The inks contain polyvinyl. Chlorides mixed with resins and pigments these inks have got a property by which the prints get dried only with the application of that. They have soft handle and resist cracking when stretched. Main thing is curing process in plastizol printing.
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