Bubble-jet printing:-
by : Rahul Sharma
Bubble-jet printing:-
Bubble-jet printing is now an exciting realitly. Recently Canon has launched a new machine for the textile industry that prints fabric at 1m/min to a maximum width of 1.65m. The cost of the machine is about £300 000 and inks are available for cotton, silk, viscose, nylon, wool and polyester. Fixation is carried out by normal steaming or Thermosol techniques. Bubble-jet printing is capable of taking images from a computer screen and directly transposing them to the fabric. Huge advantages in eliminating screen production, screen washing and time savings in changing design are immediately apparent. Print quality is excellent, the detail level claimed being 0.08mm (screen printing typically 0.2 mm) and overlap precision 0.04 mm (screen printing about 0.3 mm) In terms of ink-drop delivery, a resolution of 360 dots per inch is claimed.
