Abstract:

Existing approaches and achievements of sublimation transfer printing for cotton fabrics were reviewed briefly. For the problems presented in the approaches, such as pollutions occurred in the chemical modifications for cotton and dark color of cotton fabric resulted from the swelling process, a new method via fabric coating by use of polyester emulsion to realize the goal of sublimation transfer printing of cotton fabrics was proposed. Based on the structure specification of the polyester emulsion coating agent and its adaptability for cotton fabrics in sublimation transfer printing, the authors described technological superiorities of the method with features of vivid colors, characteristics of printed cotton fabrics, and environmental and simple processes that would be applied easily.

Key words: polyester emulsion, coating agent, transfer printing, cotton fabric