Analogue printing – digital printing fabric

Screen printing is an analogue method of digital printing fabric. Screen printing involves pressing the paint through a printing screen (made of a steel frame and a nylon mesh) and thus making a print. This operation can be performed manually (the paint is then squeezed manually through the screen) or with a machine (the paint is automatically pressed by the machine through the screen).

Preparing the screen in screen printing resembles preparation of a template, where individual parts of the grid are covered, and a specific shape is obtained on the digital printing fabric. By means of screen printing, one colour is printed at a time as each colour is a separate layer. For this reason, screen printing is not particularly recommended for multicolour prints – in such cases, digital printing will work much better. Screen printing method can be used both with material beams (in such instance a rotational screen is used) or on ready-made clothing items (T-shirts, bags, accessories).

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Turning textile with recycled yarn waste into valuable yarn

To utilize spinning wastages and convert into a value-added product, different blends of fiber reclaimed from textile with recycled yarn waste and rags/fabric clippers were made with different soft wastages. Theses fibers were converted into open end textile with recycled yarn. Fiber reclaimed from textile with recycled yarn waste had superior properties than fiber from rugs in term of fiber length, uniformity %age and floating fiber %age which are 8% and 8.95% and 12% respectively.

Textile with recycled yarn produced from blended waste textile with recycled yarn sample have less textile with recycled yarn irregularities and better tensile strength properties than of rag waste blended textile with recycled yarn. Among, soft wastages, liker-in waste fiber in textile with recycled yarn showed better results as compared to card fly and ring ac fan. A cost comparison was made which showed that the cost of textile with recycled yarn produced from fibers extracted from rag is cheaper than yarn-waste. Statistical evaluation of fiber and textile with recycled yarn properties was conducted using ANOVA statistical approach.

We provid the level of significance of the relationship between the waste types and the fiber and textile with recycled yarn properties at α value of 0.05. These textile with recycled yarns can be used for manufacturing higher quality textile products like denim, chino cloth for trousers and towel. Cost with recycled content is potentially beneficial in terms of resource depletion and waste minimization strategy.

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