Overview of textile printing technology development

Fabric screen printing machine is one of the most important equipment for deep processing of fabric, such as cutting sheets, which is mainly used for printing pictures and texts on the substrate.Screen printing belongs to orifice printing. The principle of orifice printing is to transfer dyes and other materials to the substrate through orifice holes under certain pressure to form graphics and characters

China’s textile printing technology originated in the Han Dynasty, which can be verified by the printed colorful yarn excavated from the Mawangdui tomb in Changsha.

In the Song Dynasty, some glue powder and other substances (starch) were added into the dye and mixed into pulp for printing. The patterns printed were more delicate and moving.The technology quickly spread to Europe, with Germany and Italy being the first countries to use the printing technology.Therefore, many common printing processes, such as direct printing, anti-dyeing printing, tie-dyeing and batik, originated in China.J.bell invented the spoken-print machine in the 17th century, which opened a new way for fabrics to be printed by modern machines and turned over a new page in printing on fabrics.In the 20th century, screen printing technology began to improve and develop.In 1944, The Swiss Buser company began to study the fully automatic flat-screen printing machine, which was officially put into production in 1948 and continuously improved in the process of use, making the fully automatic flat-screen printing machine perfect day by day.The birth of this printing machine laid a foundation for Stork’s horizontal rotary screen printing machine in 1963.In the late 1950s, our country began to introduce the full-automatic flat-screen printing machine made by the company, which showed a good prospect for getting rid of the backward and heavy frame-moving manual table plate scraping printing.Since the early 1970s, China has been able to design and manufacture fully automatic flat-screen printing machines, such as photo-controlled CX712, CNC M351 and more advanced liquid-controlled IMH series flat-screen printing machines, which can be called a breakthrough in the development history of flat-screen printing in China.In the 21st century, more and more countries begin to study printing equipment deeply.

In recent years, some accurate control methods are more and more used in screen printing equipment, with the help of electromechanical system application code control to improve the positioning accuracy of screen printing equipment.At the same time, with the application of advanced technologies such as wax-jet printing screen making technology, electronic color separation and laser engraving screen making technology, screen printing equipment can also be printed out previously only radio-simplified printing machine can be printed out fine patterns.Due to the many advantages of flat screen printing, in recent years, nearly 90% of the world’s printing products are printed by flat screen printing machine or rotary screen printing machine.