What is The Difference Between Printing and Dyeing? - YULONG SAFETY

What is The Difference Between Printing and Dyeing?

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Printing is through a certain process to dye or paint printed fabric formed on the method of decorative pattern design. Printing is also known as local dyeing. Dyeing is a textile material with dye bath, make dyes and fiber chemical or physical and chemical changes, or on the fiber forming processes of insoluble non-ferrous material.

During dyeing and printing, it uses the same dye chemical agents and used similar attribute, the coloring mechanism of dye is the same. But the dyeing and printing there are a lot of different places, what is the difference?

1. Different processing medium. Printing process need to add the paste and dyestuff made printing paste together, in order to prevent the pattern outline is not clear or flower shape distortion, and after drying to prevent printing dye migration. Dyeing process with water as medium, in general, do not add or just add a small amount of thickening paste as a migration agent.

2. Different color matching method. When printing often use different types of dyes for common printed or printed with the OARS, and dyeing seldom used two different types of dyes to color matching. Printing and dyeing half-and-half products quality requirements, get the same shade of color, the printing quantity of the dyes used are much larger than the dyeing, so sometimes need to join the co solvent.

3. The different post-treatment processing. After drying of printing paste can form a layer of membrane, prevent the dye diffusion within the fiber, sometimes must use steam to dye transfer from the paste onto the fiber (i.e., increase the dye diffusion rate) to complete the coloring process, and then conducts regular washing, soaping and drying process, etc. And dyeing processing post-processing is usually water washing, soaping and drying process, such as the process of dyeing, the dyeing on the fabric has a longer duration, dye penetration can be fully spread to fiber, so don't need other special post-treatment.