Digital Textile Printing- Changing Textile World

By Author: Sanath Shah
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Digitalization has changed the face of textiles. With technological up gradation production has become easier and quicker. Commercialized in the 2000s, digital printing emerged as a revolution in the world of textiles. Changed the prospects of working on textile printing. Digital textile Printing takes the form of Ink Jet based method of printing. DTP – Digital Textile Printing has various form for different type and size of printing. For garments and smaller prints, it’s a different method and for flags, banners etc. are different. DTP has helped save time and money and made processes easier and quicker. DTP replaced analog screen printing. Since its introduction, this technology has witnessed tremendous popularity amongst textiles printers across the world. It currently represents more than 1.5% of the overall printed textiles market which is expected to be more than 5.0% by 2020. The majority of digital printing on textiles is done today mainly on polyester fabrics using dye sublimation.


Applications of DTP technology segmented into four major categories, namely textiles & clothing, home textiles, ...
... soft signage, and others. DTP is printing digital files on textile fabric with inkjet printers. As mentioned above there are different types of Digital Fabric Printing Ink Technologies. A different technique for the different type of fabric and each technique serves a different purpose with different print quality. With DTP photographic & tonal graphics with multiple shades as well as colors can be printed on textiles. It has got easier for apparel manufacturers in India with the up gradation of DTP. There is no limitation on the number of colors you use. It offers faster-processing speed where everything that is required in the print can be prepared on computer digitally. High Precision printing is potential, which is usually a drawback with other forms of printing. With all such benefits, DTP has witnessed significant growth in the recent past and the trend is expected to continue in the future also.


Things You need to consider before going for digital fabric printing.


- Color


- Fabric


- Cost


- File Standards


- File Layout


- Repeat Patterns


- Samples


The Indian digital textile printing output was 30-40 million m2 and is estimated to grow at 29 per cent annually to touch 75-98 m2 by 2017. Tremendous progress has been made, but there are still many challenges to be met by textile suppliers in India. However, the opportunities for digitally printed textile applications are so large that many technology providers and ink manufacturers are investing heavily in textile and textile-related products and systems.


The textile processing and printing industries cater to a wide variety of end users and specialty printing applications. Digital textile printing opens up a new dimension and makes possible a number of specialty printing applications which are limited only by the imagination and the creativity of printing service providers.


There are few limitations of DTP, which are the biggest drawbacks. Metallic colors cannot be printed by these machines. In case of flat color printing, there can be a range of colors which the machine cannot produce. On theother hand, digital printing will cater to premium textile products, custom textile products, brands that desire local textile production, and to products where time-to-market is critical. Digital textile printing will definitely change the landscape of textile printing worldwide!

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For the past 3 years I have been writing informative and high quality articles on textilestock. In the above article have covered topics such astextile suppliers in india and apparels manufacturers in india.

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