Alternative aesthetic diversification of clothes using printing

Abstract

: The fast pace evolves surrounding world reflects on achievement technologies and decorating clothes. The most common, by far, the technique of personalization and printing of textiles and clothes is screen printing technology. Nevertheless, screen printing method limits the printing area and the number of printed colors. Screen printing technology is a traditional method to obtain surface images of textiles and since it involves a lengthy process of transition from one model to another great time to adjust equipment it is necessary modernization. Modernization implies the gradual replacement of screen printing technology with digital printing. Digital printing technology is directly applicable on computer to textile raw or cut the selected image using only a special printer using special inks. This new technique provides designers almost unlimited creative freedom and an advantage for all industrial and commercial process in the production system. The purpose of this study aims to analyze the possibilities of using technological alternatives clothes printing, namely digital printing technologies directly or indirectly. There were samples subjected to laboratory tests for textile printing by the traditional method – screen printing, and three samples of textile printed by a digital printing method in order to identify different characteristics of resistance to dry friction and drapery prints, vapor permeability zone print, hydrophilicity. Printing patterns on textiles, which were not feasible in the past – no color limits are now available to everyone through digital printing technologies. It is a superior alternative to screen printing, denoting several strong elements: quickness, effectiveness, economic constraints related to complex manufacturing process and the minimum number of copies, myriad of colors, resistance to washing and ironing.