Pretreatment liquid for ink jet textile printing and textile printing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTakako Sugiyama, Masakazu Ohashi, Toru Saito
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Abstract
A pretreatment liquid for ink jet textile printing according to an aspect of the invention used by being applied to a fabric before applying an ink composition for ink jet textile printing to the fabric includes a multivalent metal salt; and an aqueous medium, in which the concentration of the multivalent metal salt is within in a range of 0.025 mol/kg or more and 0.08 mol/kg or less. A textile printing method according to another aspect the invention includes applying a pretreatment liquid to at least a partial region of a fabric; and applying an ink composition for ink jet textile printing to at least a portion of the region to which the pretreatment liquid is applied.
Claims16
A pretreatment liquid for ink jet textile printing used by being applied to a fabric before applying an ink composition for ink jet textile printing to the fabric, the pretreatment liquid comprising:
- a multivalent metal salt;
- and
- an aqueous medium,
- wherein a concentration of the multivalent metal salt has an absolute molecular mass in a range of 0.025 mol/kg or more to 0.06 mol/kg or less,
- wherein the multivalent metal salt is selected from one of calcium chloride and calcium acetate, and
- wherein the attachment amount of the pretreatment liquid is in a range of 0.02 g/cm2 or more to 0.5 g/cm2 or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.