printing, dates back to the earliest of times. Over the ages and even more now it is

desirable to have designs on our fabrics. There are many ways of getting these designs

onto our clothing and fabric. One way of doing this is printing on fabric. Printing is the

localized coloration of textiles(Mock). It is characterized by use of delivery systems that

apply precise amounts of colorant to locations on the fabric. There are several printing

methods such as roller printing, screen printing, ink jet printing, and transfer printing.

This paper will focus on the method of transfer printing.

One of the latest and most interesting developments in the field of textile printing

is the process known as transfer, or "Sublistatic", printing. Transfer printing is a term

used to describe any process by which a colored design may be transferred without image

distortion from a print on paper to a textile or polymeric material. It is simply a heat

transfer method of patterning synthetic fabrics. The pattern is first printed on to a paper

web. This is done with special inks that contain dispersed dyestuffs which sublime at a

2. "Symposium on Transfer Printing", March 24-25, 1976, New Jersey,Textile Research

For whichever industry they are intended, the patterned cylinders are made in one

photogravure work. Conventional gravure rollers have all the cells or dots of the same

around the cylinder, subsequent color rollers have their patterns printed onto them. This

There are some limitations to the transfer method. One of these being that it is

vacuum transfer machines. Flat-bed presses range from very simple units to the more

are used the amount of color deposited on the cloth is less than from the Alijaba machine,

heated cylinder surface to avoid changes in color across the cloth width. Both flat-bed

transfer process. Fabrics woven or knitted with up to thirty percent natural fiber mixtures

cooling(Storey). At this temperature the dyestuffs have little affinity for the paper carrier,

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