The Effect of Digital Textile Printing Technology （数码纺织印刷技术的影响）.pdf

The Effect of Digital Textile Printing Technology on Textile Design Styles By Professor Hitoshi Ujiie, Philadelphia University Director of the Center for Excellence of Digital Ink Jet for Textiles Mechanical production methods influence both design aesthetics and styles. In the field of printed textile design, the latest digital fabric printing technology has influenced the style and definition of printed textile design. Digital fabric printing has had an impact on 2 directions in textile design: (1) re-adjusting conventional printing design and (2) emerging new looks in design. Historically, textile printing has been executed by utilizing transferring media, such as screens and rollers. Each transferring media is engraved and assigned for a specific color. A block printing and engraved copper printing are the early examples of these methods. In block printing, a number of colors in design represent a number of woodblocks that are carved. Each block representing color separations mainly consists of flat silhouette shapes. A three dimensional effect of the motifs is obtained by printing several layers of flat separated shapes. So-called traditional floral design printed by rotary screen printers today, still retains the same look as the historical block printed designs. Historically, engraved roller printing consists of lines and dots engraved on copper surfaces, just like in intaglio printing. These methods created the finest quality of detailed lines and tonal effects, which are still the goals for todays printing technology. So-called toile design printed by flatbed and rotary printers originated from this historical printing method, and have set the standard for traditional textile design looks, which are currently in the market today. Many consumers of printed fabrics t