What is color fastness in digital printing?
For the purchase of digital printing machine friends, many people are most concerned about is the color fastness problem. So what exactly is color fastness? In fact, color fastness belongs to a branch of printed fabric color characteristics. Then, the Elephant digital printing will give you a detailed description of what is the color fastness?
Color fastness
Fabric printing is a kind of surface treatment of materials, in addition to the thin fabric, the general printed dyes rarely penetrate into the fabric structure of the deep. Washing or dry cleaning and subsequent drying, as well as daily wear caused by the wear, alsways make the fabric surface of the fiber off. so that the surface color of the fabric lighter or exposed non-colored fiber, the fabric fade.
For exanple shirts, most daily clothing and children materials such as fabric, dyeing cloth or if it is not the yarn dyeing, printing, fabric color will last longer. Certain materials, such as decorative fabrics or evening dresses, etc.,Because it is not often used or cleaning, printing or dyeing, the difference is not big .
Because the cost of printing is relatively low.sometimes print patterns that imitate yarn dyed stripes or plaid .the color of the printed fabric is not durable due to the above reasons. Careful buyers and other textile related personnel usually check whether the fabric is woven or printed on the fabric.
Strip patterns generally not printed by manual screens or automatic flat screens, since it is difficult to match the pattern before each screen after printing.
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