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A study of the properties of ink‐jet printed cotton fabric following low‐temperature plasma treatment
Author(s) -
Yuen C W M,
Kan C W
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
coloration technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1478-4408
pISSN - 1472-3581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-4408.2007.00068.x
Subject(s) - sodium alginate , inkwell , materials science , coating , jet (fluid) , composite material , plasma , chemical engineering , sodium , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering , metallurgy , thermodynamics
This paper studies the effect of low‐temperature plasma treatment on an ink‐jet printed cotton fabric. Due to the specific printing and conductivity requirements for ink‐jet printing, not all conventional printing chemicals, such as sodium alginate and urea, used for cotton fabric can be directly incorporated into the ink formulation. As a result, the cotton fabric requires pretreatment with the printing chemicals prior to the stage of ink‐jet printing. Cotton is pretreated with the printing chemicals by means of a coating method. The aim of this paper was to study the possibility and effectiveness of applying low‐temperature plasma treatment to enhance the performance of pretreatment paste containing sodium alginate so as to improve the properties of the ink‐jet printed cotton fabric. Experimental results revealed that a low‐temperature plasma pretreatment coupled with the ink‐jet printing technique could improve the final printed properties of cotton fabric.