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US 2008/0092309 A1Published application
Fabric pretreatment for inkjet printing
OwnerScott W. Ellis, Xiaoqing Liinventors
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Abstract
This invention pertains to inkjet printing on fabric and to a pretreatment solution for the fabric that allows high quality printing thereon. The aqueous pretreatment solution/emulsion comprises a nonionic latex polymer and a multivalent cationic salt.
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A method of digitally printing a textile comprising the steps of:
- (a) pretreating the textile with an aqueous pretreatment solution comprising a nonionic latex polymer and a multivalent cationic salt solution,
- (b) drying the pretreated textile,
- (c) digitally printing the dried, pretreated textile with a colored ink jet ink,
- whether the nonionic latex polymer has sufficient nonionic components such that the nonionic latex polymer is stable in the presence of the multivalent cationic salt solution.
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