The effect of ink drop spreading and coalescing on the image quality of printed cotton fabric
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The effect of ink drop spreading and coalescing on the image quality of printed cotton fabric Kun Zhang . Kuanjun Fang . Mohd Nadeem Bukhari . Ruyi Xie . Yawei Song . Zhiyuan Tang . Xiaoyu Zhang
Received: 4 May 2020 / Accepted: 8 September 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Cotton fabric has been extensively used as the substrate of inkjet printing to manufacture traditional garments as well as emerging e-textiles due to its comfort, renewability, good dyeability, biodegradability and relatively low cost. In present work, the spreading and coalescence of ink drops on a cotton fabric as well as their effects on the image quality were investigated. A reactive orange 13 dye was selected as the colorant to make it convenient to observe the depositing morphologies of ink drops. The impacting and wetting processes of an ink drop on a cotton fiber were observed through a high-speed camera.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03446-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Depositing morphologies of an ink drop, coalescing structures of ink drops and patterns printed with different drop spacings were observed through a microscope. The results show that the ink drop stably deposited on the cotton fabric and formed a long strip pattern after wetting. That indicates the inkjet printing pattern on a cotton fabric should be composed of ‘‘line segments’’ instead of round points. The edges of the pattern printed with a small drop spacing appeared bleeding phenomenon due to the ink drops excessively accumulated on the gaps between cotton fibers. Ink drops could not coalesce at a large drop spacing resulting in the printed pattern being discontinuous. The ideal pattern was printed at an intermediate drop spacing, which was 20 lm in this experiment.
K. Zhang K. Fang M. N. Bukhari R. Xie Y. Song Z. Tang X. Zhang College of Textiles and Clothing, Qingdao University, 308 Ningxia Road, 266071 Qingdao, China K. Zhang K. Fang M. N. Bukhari R. Xie Y. Song Z. Tang X. Zhang State Key Laboratory for Biofibers and Eco-textiles, 308 Ningxia Road, 266071 Qingdao, China K. Zhang K. Fang (&) M. N. Bukhari R. Xie Y. Song Z. Tang X. Zhang Collaborative Innovation Center for Eco-textiles of Shandong Province, 308 Ningxia Road, 266071 Qingdao, China e-mail: [email protected]
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Keywords Cotton fabric Inkjet printing Spreading and coalescence Image quality
Introduction As a major textile fiber, cotton has been dominant for centuries due to its unique combination of properties, including wearing comfort, renewability, good dyeability, biodegradability and relatively low cost (Bao et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2017; Xu et al. 2015). With the development of scientific technology, cotton fabric has been extensively used as the substrate for inkjet printing to fabricate not only traditional garments, but als
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