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- What are the main advantages of digital textile printing?
The main advantages of digital textile printing are:- it can be printed to continuous rolls of fabric
- no screens need to be prepared
- there is no limit to the number of colours that can be applied
- print accuracy, detailed representations of photographs, hand drawings or hand painted artworks and illustrations.
- it is environmentally friendly because it uses very little water and there is very little ink wastage
- the use of water based inks which are biodegradable.
- Fabrics made from what fibres can be used for digital textile printing?
Digital textile printing can be carried out on any natural woven fabric such as cotton, wool, silk, linen, viscose as well as polyester and nylon. Weights of fabrics range from voile and georgette to canvas.
- What type of printing technology is used in digital printing?
Ink jet technology is used in digital printing.
- What types of dyes are used for digital printing on a) natural fibres, b)
polyester?
Reactive dyes are used for natural fibres, disperse dyes for polyester.
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