In turn, the blazon of ink allure needs to fit requirements for the Knitting Stretchy Fabric (such as polyester, nylon, cotton, silk). Based on the media and ink combination, the best comes for infra-red fixation, heat-press sublimation or steaming. The anatomy of the bolt aswell needs attention, for archetype whether it is woven, non-woven or knitted.
Polyester bolt is printed mostly with dye-sub or banish complete ink, although UV and bread-and-butter inks (including HP’s acrylic formulation) can aswell be used. The abundant annual of sublimation ink is the actuality that the colorants will bandage with the fibre during sublimation or fixation. The colours are ‘inside’ the media and don’t breach aural the complete and on top of the media, as it is the case with UV-curable formulations. Even acrylic inks on absorptive bolt can ache from crocking issues or ‘rub-off’. Low activity sublimation ink is easier to book with, but has the disadvantage of colours crumbling faster; its UV resistance, or light-fastness, is beneath aggressive than equivalents appliance top activity banish complete ink. Dye-sub can aswell ache from a ‘halo’ aftereffect which after-effects in beneath aciculate images. The banish complete ink is a ‘stronger’ ink than the dye-sub kind, and this is complete important for alfresco use, such as for fence fabric, flags and banners: artwork will endure longer.
Another annual of aqueous-based sublimation ink is the absence of chancy apparatus as begin in UV-curable, bread-and-butter and, even, in Textile Fabric.