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Pigment Textile Ink
Pigment textile inks for digital printing use insoluble pigment particles dispersed in a water-based binder carrier designed for direct printing onto any fabric type — cotton, polyester, blends, and synthetics — without the need for fabric pretreatment or post-steaming processes, representing the most substrate-versatile digital textile printing chemistry available. The binder polymer encapsulates the pigment and bonds it mechanically to the fabric fiber surface during heat fixation at relatively low temperatures (150–160°C), enabling single-machine, single-process print and fix workflows. While washfastness is slightly lower than reactive or disperse systems, advances in binder technology have made modern pigment inks commercially viable for fashion and home textile applications.
Key Applications
- Direct digital printing on mixed-fiber and unidentified fabric substrates
- Simplified print-and-fix workflows without steaming or washing
- On-demand, short-run digital textile printing for sampling and retail
- Cotton, polyester, and blended fabric printing on a single machine
Frequently Bought Together
Dye Sublimation Ink
Dye sublimation inks are formulated with disperse dyes in a water-based humectant carrier for printing onto release-coated transfer paper using inkjet printers, after which the printed transfer is heat-pressed onto polyester fabric at 190–210°C to sublimate the dye directly into the fiber.
Digital PrintingReactive Digital Ink
Reactive digital inks for textile printing contain fiber-reactive chromophores dissolved in a humectant aqueous carrier, designed for piezoelectric inkjet printhead systems printing directly onto pretreated cellulosic fabrics including cotton, linen, viscose, and modal.
Digital PrintingDisperse DTF Ink
Disperse DTF (Direct-to-Film) inks combine disperse dye chemistry with a specially formulated aqueous carrier optimized for printing onto PET transfer film, which is then heat-transferred directly onto polyester and polyester-blend fabrics.