Patent ID: 6723137
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: D06P

Abstract:
A textile printing process for coloring a cloth, the cloth comprising fibers dyeable with reactive dyes, the process comprising the steps of:(a) choosing an application ratio of a black reactive dye contained in a black ink to an orange reactive dye contained in an orange ink for an overlapped portion of the black and orange inks according to one of a type of cloth and water content of the cloth, wherein the application ratio is within the range of from 1:2 to 8:1 in terms of weight ratio; (b) applying the black ink containing the black reactive dye and the orange ink containing the orange reactive dye to the cloth using an ink-jet system so that the black ink and the orange ink at least partially overlap each other, wherein the black and orange reactive dyes have reactive groups different from each other; (c) heating or steaming the cloth, to which the inks have been applied in step (b); and (d) washing the cloth resulting from step (c).