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Influence of Components on the Properties of Pigment Inks for Textiles
Xia Zhang
Kuanjun Fang
Lianbing Zhang
Shaohai Fu
Xue Jiang
Anli Tian
Chaoxia Wang
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2007.23.1.art00008_2  Published Online :  January 2007
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For inkjet printing, pigment inks are suitable for all kinds of fibre, the printing procedure is simple without both pretreatment and after-treatment. In the future, the research and development of pigment ink will be the main trend of the inkjet printing technology. In this paper, the influence of polyhydric alcohol, surfactant, de-foaming agent on ink performance, such as viscosity, surface tension and so on, was analyzed. The com- patibility of polyhydric alcohols such as 1, 3-propanediol, diethylene glycol, 1, 6-hexylene glycol, glycerine with pigment ink has been researched, and effect of the amount of polyhydric alcohols on the viscosity and surface tension of ink was discussed. The function of surfactants OP-7,OP-10 and OP-15 in ink has been analyzed, the results show that surfactant OP-7 and OP-10 could decrease the surface tension of inks below 30mN/m when the amount used about 1.0% or lower by weight. The efficiency of reducing surface tension falls down in the sequence of the surfactants OP-7, OP-10 and OP-15. The effect of the amount of surfactant on the viscosity was not very significant. The defoaming effect of n-butyl alcohol on pigment ink has also researched in this paper.

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Publisher Name : Society of Imaging Science and Technology
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Xia Zhang, Kuanjun Fang, Lianbing Zhang, Shaohai Fu, Xue Jiang, Anli Tian, Chaoxia Wang, "Influence of Components on the Properties of Pigment Inks for Textiles"  in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP23),  2007,  pp 540 - 542,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2007.23.1.art00008_2

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Articles
Influence of Components on the Properties of Pigment Inks for Textiles
ZhangXia
FangKuanjun
ZhangLianbing
FuShaohai
JiangXue
TianAnli
WangChaoxia
01012007
2007
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540
542
2007
For inkjet printing, pigment inks are suitable for all kinds of fibre, the printing procedure is simple without both pretreatment and after-treatment. In the future, the research and development of pigment ink will be the main trend of the inkjet printing technology. In this paper, the influence of polyhydric alcohol, surfactant, de-foaming agent on ink performance, such as viscosity, surface tension and so on, was analyzed. The com- patibility of polyhydric alcohols such as 1, 3-propanediol, diethylene glycol, 1, 6-hexylene glycol, glycerine with pigment ink has been researched, and effect of the amount of polyhydric alcohols on the viscosity and surface tension of ink was discussed. The function of surfactants OP-7,OP-10 and OP-15 in ink has been analyzed, the results show that surfactant OP-7 and OP-10 could decrease the surface tension of inks below 30mN/m when the amount used about 1.0% or lower by weight. The efficiency of reducing surface tension falls down in the sequence of the surfactants OP-7, OP-10 and OP-15. The effect of the amount of surfactant on the viscosity was not very significant. The defoaming effect of n-butyl alcohol on pigment ink has also researched in this paper.