Fabric feeding system: This system feeds and presents the fabric to the traversing inkjet heads, and ensures perfect registration and alignment throughout, even for delicate and unstable fabrics such as knits and silks. If required, this machine may also preheat, dry or set the printed fabric before finally solling up the output smoothly and with even tension.
Machine vendors are increasingsly focusing their attention on improved fabric feed and take up mechanisms, as well as devices such as adhesive printing belts (fitted with washers to prevent a building up of print-through-ink). Established screen printing manufacturers such as Zimmer are at the forecast of such developments, Ichinose uses a conveyor belt to transport and align the textile substrate.
At the entry end of the cloth is fixed the conveyor belt with the help of suitable adhesive. The conveyor belt carrying the fabric gently moves ahead for inkjet printing operation. The print head nozzles are set up right above the carrier belt, and the cloth is printed with the inks sprayed from the head nozzles. This can prevent the inks from bleeding onto the cloth. After printing opearion the cloth at the exit end id released from the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt can be cleaned whenever necessary. |
