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Reactive Printing

This document outlines the process of printing cotton fabric with reactive dye. It describes preparing a stock paste with sodium alginate, urea, and water, then measuring viscosity. A print paste is made by adding reactive dye, oxidizing agent, and alkali to the stock paste. The cotton fabric is printed using a flatbed printing machine and stenter. Viscosity decreases with added urea but rubbing and washing fastness increases. The overall goal is to print cotton fabric using reactive dye.

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Reactive Printing

This document outlines the process of printing cotton fabric with reactive dye. It describes preparing a stock paste with sodium alginate, urea, and water, then measuring viscosity. A print paste is made by adding reactive dye, oxidizing agent, and alkali to the stock paste. The cotton fabric is printed using a flatbed printing machine and stenter. Viscosity decreases with added urea but rubbing and washing fastness increases. The overall goal is to print cotton fabric using reactive dye.

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OBJECTIVES:-

 Preparation of stock paste.


 Preparation of print paste.
 To print given cotton fabric with the help of Reactive dye

APPARATUS:-

 Beaker
 Stirrer
 Electric Balance

CHEMICALS REQUIRED:- (FOR STOCK PASTE)

 Sodium alginate [3-12 %] 30-120g/l


 Urea 100-200g/l
 Ludigol 10g/l
 Water 1000 ml

PROCEDURE:-

 First of all, one liter water was taken in a beaker.


 This was followed by the addition of sodium alginate 3% of the weight of
paste to be prepared.
 It was then stirred vigorously using a high speed stirrer.
 The viscosity of the paste was then measured with the help of viscometer.
 The amount of Sodium alginate was optimized to obtain a viscosity reading of
13,000 centipoises.
 Then urea was added to the paste followed by the measurement of viscosity.
 The change in viscosity was noted.

OBSERVATIONS:-

Viscosity of paste before addition of urea = 13500 centipoises


Viscosity of paste after addition of urea = 12500 centipoises
PREPARATION OF PRINT PASTE:-

APPARATUS:-

 Beaker
 Stirrer
 Electric Balance

CHEMICALS REQUIRED:- (FOR PRINT PASTE)

 Stock paste (prepared as above)


 Alkali
 Reactive dye [4%] 40 g/l

PROCEDURE:-

 Reactive dye was added to the prepared stock paste and stirred for some
time.
 Mild oxidizing agent (Ludigol) was then added to the paste.
 Alkali was added at the end.

PRINTING OF FABRIC:-

MACHINE USED:-

 Flat bed printing machine


 Stenter

PRINT PASTE APPLICATION:-

 The fabric sample was laid on flat bed of the printing machine, with the
printing screen over it.
 Print paste was put on one side of screen and applied with the help of a
steel rod.
 Steel rod moves with the help of electromagnetic assembly and applies the
print paste on the fabric.
 The fabric was then dried at 110oC for 1 min through Stenter.
 It was then cured at 170oC for 2 min.
 The fabric sample was then washed.
 Testing was carried out on the fabric.
RESULT:-

It has been observed that the viscosity of the print paste decrease with the addition of
the urea, but also the rubbing and washing fastness increases.
SUBMITTED TO:

SIR QAMAR ZIA SB.

SUBMITTED BY:

USAMA HAFEEZ 03 NTU 126


MAHSUM NASIM 03 NTU 106
RIZWAN AKBAR 03 NTU 114
UMER BHALLI 03 NTU 206
IJAZ AHMED NIAZI 03 NTU 218
SECTION:

C [PROCESSING]

SEMESTER;

7TH
NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSIRY
FAISALABAD

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