Digital textile printing
The term digital textile printing refers to the printing of fabric without printing form with patterns in industrial textile printing . In addition to new problems (see below), it offers some advantages over analogue printing (see digital printing ).
history
Since 1995 research has been carried out on the use of digital printing for textile printing. The TruColor TCP Jetprinters printer from Stork was one of the first to enable the use of inkjet technology for textile printing .
Creation of a hue
In classic textile printing, the colors are defined before printing and mixed together according to a mixing algorithm (see subtractive color mixing ), which means that as a rule 3 dyes are sought whose sum of color spectra corresponds to the spectrum of the desired target color. With digital textile printing, as with any other digital printing system, the colors are mixed directly on the substrate from the available process colors. In digital textile printing, CMYK alone would not be sufficient because the color space is too small. Using modern color management software, 4-color machines can now also print a good range of colors.