Printing Fabric: What Is The Difference Between Cold Transfer Printing?

For printing fabric, there are many printing techniques. Among them, what is the difference between cold transfer printing? Cold transfer printing technology, also known as wet transfer printing, became a new printing method in China after it was introduced from Europe in the 1990s. It is a type of paper printing that differs from traditional round/flat screen printing and heat transfer printing.
The cold transfer printing machine has a small tension and is suitable for printing fabrics which are easily deformed by tension, such as cotton knitwear, and has high production efficiency, and can also obtain better transfer effects on ultra-thin silk, nylon and other fabrics, and is particularly good at printing. Complex characters and landscape patterns have a strong sense of layering and three-dimensionality. The effect can be compared with digital direct squirting, and the printing process achieves energy saving and emission reduction, so it is favored by people.

What is the difference between cold transfer printing?
The principle of cold transfer printing is to use a dye with good solubility and good stability (reactive dye, acid dye, etc.) to make a color paste, and adjust the surface tension between the color paste and the paper to clearly print the image on the coated On the paper of the release agent, dry and roll. Then, the fabric to be printed (the water-repellent additive such as softener or smoothing agent cannot be added after the pretreatment) is padded with the pre-treatment liquid, and then aligned with the transfer printing paper, and then passed through the transfer unit after being attached, and the front of the fabric is carried. The treatment liquid dissolves the color paste on the transfer printing paper. Under certain pressure conditions, the dye transfers and enters the pores of the fabric due to the greater affinity of the dye for the fabric than for the transfer paper. Finally, the paper and cloth are separated, and the fabric is dried in an oven and sent to a steaming machine for steaming and coloring within a predetermined time.
Other printing methods that are rarely used in textile production are: wood formwork printing, wax enamel (ie wax proof) printing, and yarn tying cloth.