Introduction Of Digital Printing
Textile digital Printing emerged in the 1990s as a prototyping tool and a vehicle for Printing small batches of fabric for the nicer mar-ket Products and to produce advertising materials such as flags and banners.
Commercially the first application of digital printing was with carpets. This was launched in the 1970s and since then devel-opments over recent years have been dramatic.
The increasing use of CAD systems,with the consequent ability to store patterns in digital form,makes it particularly attractive.Additionally,the use of electronic method of carrying out the Printing operation and thereby eliminate the costly and time-consuming process of screen-making is of great importance in terms of drastically reducing the production cost.With the increased pressure from developing textile markets in Far East,the textile printer in Europe ,Japan and the USA must respond with both increased quality and shorter response time.The means supplying new design concepts,sample and Production of printed fabrics in a wide range of colour ways in a time frame unheard of a few years ago and with substantially reduced production cost.