Printing Technology

Paper Code:

MTX-324

Credits:

3

Contact Hours:

45.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

To understand the processes of printing.
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:

Miles L.W.C, Textile Printing, Dyers Company Publication Trust, Bradford, England,1981.
Shenai V.A, Technology of Printing, Sevak Publications, Mumbai, 1990.
Hall A.J, Textile Finishing, Haywood Books, London, 1996.
Shenai V.A. and Saraf, N.M, Technology of Textile Finishing, Sevak Publications,Mumbai, 1990.
Peters R H, Textile Chemistry, Vol- III, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., New York,1975.