Highlights of processing machinery - XXII

摘要

Parts Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ, Ⅵ, Ⅶ, Ⅷ, Ⅸ, Ⅹ, Ⅺ, Ⅻ, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XIX, XX and XXI in this series on INDIA ITME 2000, published in January, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December 2001 and January, February, March, May, August, October and December 2002 and February, April and June 2003 issues of COLOURAGE, have dealt with machinery for shearing and singeing, desizing & scouring, batchwise and continuous bleaching, mercerizing (Parts Ⅳ and Ⅴ), jiggers & beam dyeing machines for batchwise dyeing in Open width, jet dyeing machines, HT airflow machines, HT overflow/softflow machines, atmospheric overflow/softflow machines, the last four for batchwise dyeing in rope form, semi-continuous and continuous open width dyeing machines, laboratory dyeing machines, sample dyeing machines, systems and equipment for color matching and computerized automatic equipment and systems for dyeing production and dyehouse management (Parts XVI, XVII, XVIII and XIX), flatbed screen printing machines and rotary printing machines for woven fabrics. Part XXII describes inkJet printing machines, having the potential to develop and dominate the textile printing scene in years to come. These modern digital inkjet textile printers ha ve many advantages such as shorter cycle times, greater design freedom, lower cost short runs, virtual inventory and environmental benefits. World's leading manufacturers of modern printing machines like Stork of Netherlands and Zimmer of Austria, by joining hands with digital systems specialists like Lectra of France and Jemtex of USA, are making rapid progress in this area. Stork's Amber, Zircon and Amethyst models and Zimmer's Chromotex models are examples wherein machine productivity and versatility have been improved. In the area of carpet jet printing, Zimmer has made radical improvements in their Chromojet models with their latest Chromojet F model which is claimed to have the 'ultimate flexibility and speed'.