Digital Printing on Textiles; A User's Story

摘要

The digital printing of textiles is a market-niche in the digital printing business which only recently has been developing. Although digital printing techniques exist for quite some time for paper printing, one can say that only since the last two years there has been serious development of the digital printing for textiles. The main reason for this delay lies in the fact that only recently the right dyestuffs have become available and in some cases still are under development to make digital printing on most kinds of textile fibres possible. If we may believe the suppliers of printing machines, software developers or even suppliers of special fabrics for digital printing, then one can conclude that the digital printing on textiles is very easy. In this paper, I will point you out some of the possible problems which may occur during this easy operation and will let you conclude for yourself if the claims of those companies are right or wrong.