Patent ID: 7892608

Claim:
A method of digitally forming a coating on a fibrous textile having mesh openings between adjacent fibres, the method comprising: continuously feeding the textile along a treatment path having a row of coating nozzles arranged across the path, the coating nozzles having outlet diameters of greater than about 70 microns; supplying the nozzles with a supply of a coating substance; individually controlling the nozzles to provide a substantially continuous stream of droplets of the coating substance; selectively directing the individual droplets to impinge on the textile to form a coating of pixels lying generally on an unprinted surface of the textile, each pixel covering at least four mesh openings and having a diameter of more than 100 microns; feeding the textile along a second row of nozzles also arranged across the path; supplying the second row, of nozzles with a supply of a second substance; and individually controlling the nozzles to provide a substantially continuous stream of droplets of the second substance to the textile.