Fabric Distributors. Blog Archive » Introduction to Digital Fabric Printing. Posted by Guest Author on Jun 24, 2010 at 8:12 am / Textiles and Inputs / Trackback Introduction to Digital Fabric Printing: Technology, Design & Possibilities is a guest post written for us by Jasonda Desmond. Jasonda has long been a member of our forum and designed the masthead of Fashion-Incubator. She recently launched Dotty Logic, a line of fabrics she’s designed. Today she shares what she learned in the process of putting out her first collection Beachcomber. Digital fabric printing is a relatively new technology with tons of applications. Technology Most commercially available fabric is rotary screen printed; each print run is typically several thousand yards. The inkjet printing technology used in digital printing was first patented in 1968. The inks used in digital printing are formulated specifically for each type of fiber (cotton, silk, polyester, nylon, etc).
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