Printing Technology

Paper Code: 
MTX-324
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  1. To understand the processes of printing.
  2. To understand the various methods and styles of printing.
     
9.00
Unit I: 
  • Introduction to printing
  • Difference between dyeing and printing
  • Printing methods: Hand block, roller and screen printing processes. (detailed study)
     
10.00
Unit II: 
  • Introduction and working of roller printing machine
  • Screen Printing: photographic and other methods of screen preparation.
  • Drawback and advantage of each method.
     
9.00
Unit III: 
  • Printing Styles:
  • Direct
  • Discharge :white and coloured
  • Resist styles: white and coloured
  • Other styles of printing
     
7.00
Unit IV: 
  • Print Paste: Constituent and characteristics of print paste
  • Classification and mechanism of working of thickeners
     
10.00
Unit V: 
  • After treatments of Printing: Importance of steaming, curing, ageing of prints.
  • Mechanism of each process.
     
Essential Readings: 
  1. Miles L.W.C, Textile Printing, Dyers Company Publication Trust, Bradford, England,1981.
  2. Shenai V.A, Technology of Printing, Sevak Publications, Mumbai, 1990.
  3. Hall A.J, Textile Finishing, Haywood Books, London, 1996.
  4. Shenai V.A. and Saraf, N.M, Technology of Textile Finishing, Sevak Publications,Mumbai, 1990.
  5. Peters R H, Textile Chemistry, Vol- III, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., New York,1975.
     
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