Acrylic Printing

Printing with Basic dyes, steaming, washing

-Basic dyes are cationic dyes, which give brilliant, strong and fast prints on polyacrylonitrile fibres.
Owing to their simple handling, liquid types are generally preferred for textile printing.

Printing recipe: Basic powder types

Basic dye … g)
Glyezin A ( glycerine) 30 g ) paste with
GBcid AS 30% 30 g ) and dissolve with
Boiling water 250 g )
GBnatural Thickner FA 500-600 g
Eluysin S 5 g
Or GBcid AS
Ammonium sulfate 1:2 15 g
Luprintan PFD 30 g
GBantifoam 2 g

1000 g

For Basic liquid types

GBnatural Thickner FA 500-650 g

GBcid AS 10-20 g
Ammonium sulfate 1:2 15 g
Luprintan PFD 30 g
GBantifoam 2 g
Basic dye …g
Water or thickening …g

1000 g

( ‫ ) ﺑﻨﺰاﯾﻞ اﻟﻜﺤﻮل‬Benzyl alcohol ‫ أواﺿﺎﻓﺔ‬GBcid AS ‫ ﺑﺎﺿﺎﻓﺔ اﻟﺤﺎﻣﺾ‬Basic ‫ ﺗﻌﺠﻦ اﻟﺼﺒﻐﺔ اﻟـ‬-1

‫ وﺑﻌﺪ ذﻟﻚ اﺿﺎﻓﺔ اﻟﻤﺎء اﻟﻤﻐﻠﻲ‬GBCID AS ‫ ﺟﻢ‬30-20 ‫وﯾﺴﺘﺨﺪم ﻣﻦ‬
Luprintan PFD ‫ ك‬/ ‫ ﺟﻢ‬30 ‫ ﻻﺑﺪ ﻣﻦ اﺿﺎﻓﺔ‬-2
‫ ﻓﻲ ﺣﺎﻟﺔ اﻣﻜﺎﻧﯿﺔ اﻟﺘﺤﻀﯿﺮﻻﺑﺪ وان ﯾﻜﻮن ﺧﺎم اﻻﻛﯿﺮﻟﻚ ﺑﯿﺘﺸﺮب ﺗﻤﺎﻣﺎ ﺑﺎﺳﺘﺨﺪام‬-3
GBdetergent GB Conc (defaming + dearating + wetting……)

‫ﻓﻘﻂ ﻓﻲ ﺣﺎﻟﺔ اﻣﻜﺎﻧﯿﺔ ﻏﻠﯿﺔ اﻟﺨﺎم ﻟﺘﺤﺴﯿﻦ ﺧﻮاص اﻟﺘﺸﺮب‬

Only for poor wettability and a high residual fat content can be responsible for

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 - problems in sticking the fabric down on the printing blanket,
- a reduction in the printing speed due to poor wetting,
- uneven prints,
- poor print definition ,
- Inadequate fastness of the prints.

The purpose of the washing treatment is therefore to remove these spin finishes and thus
eliminate them as a source of faults. After washing, the fabric should contain no more than
0.1% residual spin finish.

Detergents needed for acrylic fabrices

GBdetergent GB Conc GBdetergent GB Conc is a mixture of anionic and nonionic emulsifiers that has a
synergistic action, i.e. the combined efficiency of its balanced nonionic and anionic
constituents is match greater than the efficiency of the seprate components.

GBdetergent GB Conc

- is also able to remove spin finishes that contain too little or no emulsifier, and
which cannot be re-emulsified with normal detergent,
- exhibits its full detergency in all temperature ranges,
- has no cloud point,

GBdetergent GB Conc is stable to

- water-hardening substances,
- metal salts,
- alkalis and acids.

GBdetergent GB Conc therefore has an optimum washing action. The wash bath for
the pretreatment of print goods composed of polyacrylonitrile fibres is acidified with
GBcid AS and, apart from GBdetergent GB Conc, it should also contain Trilon TA if
a complexing agent is necessary. Alkaline wash baths are not recommended, because
residual alkali on the material can be responsible for faulty prints. It is important that
the bath temperature is higher than the melting point of the oils and fats present. The
concentration of GBdetergent GB Conc used depends on the amounts of fat and oil
that have to be emulsified. AS a "rule of thumb", a relationship of 1:5 applies, i.e.
0.2 g GBdetergent GB Conc is necessary to emulsify 1 g fat or oil.

Dry 3 min at 110 C.

Note that certain cationic dyes are sensitive to high temperatures!
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Steam Steaming process Saturated pressure HT steam
Steam steam

Steaming conditions 102° C 1.2-1.5 bar 120-130° C

20-30 min 20 min 6 min

* With 50-100 g/kg urea in the print paste

Luprintan PFD Luprintan PFD is a fixing agent with the following range of action:

- improvement in the colour yield and brilliance in all batchwise and continuous steaming
processes,
- instead of batchwise dye-fixation in the star steamer, it also allows continuous fixation
in the festoon steamer without any reduction in the depth of shade or brilliance,
- increased processing reliability during steaming,
- shorter steaming times.

Glyezin A Glyezin A is necessary to dissolve Basic powder dyes. With the Basic
Liquid types, an addition of 20-30 g/kg Glyezin A to the print paste promotes the dye
fixation and levelness of the prints.

Benzy1 alcohol The addition of 10-20 g/kg benzy1 alcohol, as special dye solvent, reduces the risk of dye
agglomeration and speck formation, Dye-dissolving problems and specks may occur when
the thickening dye system is not well balanced.

In flat screen-printing, it is necessary to check that the screen lacquer is resistant to benzy1
alcohol.

Drying Some cationic dyes are temperature-sensitive and it is therefore important to ensure constant
drying conditions. To ensure the reproducibility of the shades, either the drying time must
be reduced if the recommended temperature is exceeded, or the temperature reduced if the
recommended drying time is exceeded.

Steaming steaming is carried out continuously with saturated steam at atmospheric pressure or
batchwise with pressure steam.

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 In all continuous steaming processes, the fixing agent Luprintan PFD ensures optimum dye
fixation, even under unfavourable steaming conditions. The use of this product thus
increases the processing reliability and ensures good reproducibility of the prints.

In principle, it is also possible to steam with superheated steam. For this fixation process,
the print pastes must contain 50-100 g/kg urea. It should be noted, however, that the depth
of shade and brilliance of prints fixed in high temperature stem are not always up to the
standard obtained by fixation with saturated steam.

In pressure-steam or HT-steam fixation (steam temperature higher than 102° C attention

must be paid to the temperature-sensitivity of certain cationic dyes.

Washing The degree of fixation of cationic dyes depends on the particular type of polyacrylonitrile
fibre. During the washing process, even the first rinsing bath can there fore become very
heavily contaminated with loose dye. This is not important in cold rinsing baths, but there is
the risk of loose dye staining the fabric at the higher temperature in the wash baths.
For this reason, most of the washing time available should be used for rinsing the prints cold
in order to remove as much unfixed dye as possible.

The washing recipes and the sequence of the wash baths depend on the nature of the print
design and the fabric quality.

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