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    Transfer printing is an indirect printing method where dyes are transferred from paper to fabric using heat and pressure. The image is first engraved on a copper plate and pigment applied. It is transferred to paper with glue, then placed on fabric. Heat and pressure fixes the print onto the fabric. There are different types of transfer printing like sublimation, melt, film release and wet transfer which use various techniques to transfer designs. Sublimation transfer is the most common method and uses volatile dyes that are absorbed by the fabric from the vapor phase when heated.

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    Transfer printing is an indirect printing method where dyes are transferred from paper to fabric using heat and pressure. The image is first engraved on a copper plate and pigment applied. It is transferred to paper with glue, then placed on fabric. Heat and pressure fixes the print onto the fabric. There are different types of transfer printing like sublimation, melt, film release and wet transfer which use various techniques to transfer designs. Sublimation transfer is the most common method and uses volatile dyes that are absorbed by the fabric from the vapor phase when heated.

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    Transfer printing is an indirect printing method where dyes are transferred from paper to fabric using heat and pressure. The image is first engraved on a copper plate and pigment applied. It is transferred to paper with glue, then placed on fabric. Heat and pressure fixes the print onto the fabric. There are different types of transfer printing like sublimation, melt, film release and wet transfer which use various techniques to transfer designs. Sublimation transfer is the most common method and uses volatile dyes that are absorbed by the fabric from the vapor phase when heated.

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    TEXTILE PRINTING

    (TRANSFER PRINTING)

    Lecture# 16-21

    Mujahid Mehdi Abro

    Indus University Karachi.

    Printing Methods
    Block Printing
    Transfer printing
    Roller printing
    Screen Printing
    Flat Screen Printing
    Rotary Screen Printing
    Digital Printing

    Printing:
    Localized coloration is known as printing.

    Transfer Printing:
    It is a indirect method of printing in which dyes are transferred
    from paper to a thermoplastic fabric under controlled conditions of
    temperature, time and pressure. The image is first engraved on a
    copper plate. Then pigment is applied on these plates. The image is
    then transferred to a piece of paper, with a layer of glue applied .
    This is then placed on the fabric and heat and pressure applied
    which fixes the print onto fabric.

    Process of Transfer Printing:

    Steps of Transfer Printing:

    Steps of Transfer Printing:

    TRANSFER PRINTING

    Types of transfer printing


    These are some types of transfer printing that are being
    used
    Sublimation transfer
    Melt transfer
    Film release
    Wet transfer

    Sublimation transfer
    This method depends upon on the use of volatile dye in

    the printed design


    When paper is heated the dye is preferentially absorbed

    from the vapor phase by the textile material with which the
    textile material is held in contact
    This is commercially the most important of the transfer

    printing method

    Melt transfer
    This method is used to transfer embroidery design to fabric.
    The design is printed on paper using a waxy ink.
    Hot iron is applied to its reverse face presses the paper

    against the fabric.


    The ink melts on to the fabric in contact with it
    It is used in the so called hot split transfer paper extensively

    used in garment decoration.

    Film release
    This method is similar to melt transfer with the difference

    that design is held in the ink layer


    That is transfer to fabric by using heat and pressure
    Adhesion forces are developed which are stronger than

    the film and the paper


    This method is used for both continuous web and

    garment panel units

    Wet Transfer
    Water soluble dye are incorporated into a printing ink
    which is used to produce the design on the paper
    The design is transferred to a moistened textile using

    carefully regulated contact pressure


    The dye transfers by diffusion through the aqueous

    medium
    This method has no significant use today

    Sublimation Transfer printing process


    In the production of sublimation transfer paper and prints
    four factors must be considered
    Selection of paper
    Printing method
    Dyes and inks
    The mechanism of sublimation transfer

    Selection of paper
    Papers weight 35 to 115 g/m 2 have been used depending on

    printing method
    At the transfer stage the paper requires these characteristics
    Good release of dye vapor from ink layer
    Stability to heat
    Low permeability to dye vapor
    Good dimensional stability

    Printing Method
    These are some printing method which are used
    Gravure printing
    Rotary screen printing
    Flat screen printing

    Dyes and inks


    The essential ingredient for a sublimation transfer ink is

    of path the coloring matter


    Which must be volatile at the transfer temperature that is

    appropriate for the textile being printed


    Molecules of dye must be small
    Mostly dyes chosen from disperse dye class possessing

    appropriate volatility

    TRANSFER SOURCES
    The two most common types of image transfers
    produced are
    1.

    Computer transfers.

    2.

    Color Copier transfers.

    Computer Transfers
    Computer Transfers are transfers that can be created inhouse using a computer graphics package, which is
    integrated with an ink-jet or electrostatic printer.

    Color Copier transfers


    Color copier transfers are produced using a special
    color copier transfer paper. The image is copied onto the
    special paper and then heat pressed on the material.

    Melt and film release transfer


    Both melt and film release transfer papers are produced
    using inks to produce an image that softens or melts on
    heating, and which transfer to the fabric carrying the
    coloring matters. The colorants do not require to show any
    substantively at the transfer stage, which is essentially
    mechanical. Both methods involve bringing the transfer
    paper and the fabric together with applied heat and
    pressure to form a composite.

    Melt transfer printing


    A melt transfer printing is a process which prints on paper
    (or some other material) by melting a coating of ribbon so
    that it stays glued to the material on which the print is
    applied. It contrasts with direct thermal printing where no
    ribbon is present in the process. It was invented by SATO
    corporation around the late 1940s.

    Application
    Barcodes labels (as labels printed with melt printing tend

    not to last long), or for marking clothing labels (shirt size


    etc)
    Printing plastic labels for chemical containers (because

    the cheaper types of plastic would melt in a laser printer)

    Melt transfer printing

    Transfer printing machines

    Advantages and disadvantages


    of Transfer Printing:
    ADVANTAGES
    1. Operation is simple
    and no expensive
    m/c is required.
    2. No after treatment of
    fabric required
    3. Print on fabric is of
    excellent quality

    DISADVANTAGES
    1. Process applicable
    to synthetic fabric
    like polyester .
    2. Color range is
    limited.
    3. Cost of printed
    paper high.
    4. Not economical for
    small orders.

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