Integration of fabric production and coloration offers the benefits of almost immediate style changes with an unlimited color palette. However, this would require a sizing agent to also function as a printing agent, able to provide the correct conditions for printing upon the previously created fabric without any intermediate processing. In this study, a link between the weaving and printing of cotton fabric was discovered and evaluated with good results. This discovery will allow the integration of weaving and printing to progress one more step closer to reality.
Brian R. George, Hitoshi Ujiie, Muthu Govindaraj, Deanna Wood, Swapnil Nandedkar, Alexa Tremere, Monica Fruscello, "Integration of the Weaving and Printing Processes" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP21), 2005, pp 239 - 244, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2005.21.1.art00068_1