Kolorjet Chemicals Pvt Ltd. - Dyes in Heat Transfer Printing

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Kolorjet is one of the leaders among manufacturers and suppliers of a comprehensive range of quality dyestuffs, colors and chemicals for different industrial requirements. Our range of products include dyestuff, inkjetdyes, dyes for wax printing, textile auxiliaries, synthetic food colors, natural food colors, pigments, food ingredients, dyes intermediaries, fine chemicals, specialty chemicals, enzymes, optical brighteners and soap wax dies. An ISO 9001:2008 certified company, Kolorjet continues continues to play a leading role in the manufacturing of dyestuffs in India with the intent to further strengthen its position for its quality products. With our decades of experience and extensive industry knowledge, we have been able to face the challenges of the global market place and deliver quality products in adherence with market standards and parameters. Whatever be your specification or quantity desired, our expertise and quality of service always remains the same. Modern production and techniques and flexible processes and procedures allow us to offer efficient service for small batch as well as large orders. Kolorjet is a customer oriented company and work with the objective of achieving maximum customer satisfaction. The company has adopted innovative procedures and practices to meet customer expectations every time they deal with us. We always welcome any feedback or suggestions from clients in order to serve them better.

Dyes in Heat Transfer Printing

The process of heat transfer is faster, durable along with being profitable that is why its gaining recognition from several industries.

The apparel industry has a dedicated use of heat transfer printing technology. They use it as an alternative way for printing fabrics. In this process often the designed gets transferred from a pre-printed paper onto the necessary fabric by the method of contact heat, through which the dyes get absorbed into the fabric. Heat Transfer is good technology for having clear and well defined pictures. This process, called sublimation, needs no water unlike the water requirement in conventional dyeing processes.

The heat transfer printing technology uses dyes for carrying out the printing operations. One of the most popular dye that finds application are the disperse dyes and basic dyes. Azo dyes are also successfully used. Some of the popular disperse dye colors are yellow, orange, red, violet, blue and brown. Ideally disperse type inks that are used in the heat transfer should contain 5-20% by weight of disperse dye.
Basis of selection of the Dyes

Solubility of the dyes in Polymer.
It is very vital that the dye stuffs selected are capable of subliming under heat and pressure conditions. Ideally the dyestuffs should be able to sublime when exposed to temperatures of 140 degree F – 500 degree F for approximately around 10 to 20 seconds.

Heat transfer product applications Some of the popular usages are:

Apparel Industry- Caps, T-shirts, swimsuits, jackets, cut apparel parts, etc.
Plastics- Table tops, counter tops, gaming tables.
Sports Equipment- Snow boards, snow skis, cycling helmets, water sports equipment etc.
Decorative Industry- Ceramic tiles, wall mural, flooring and interior design etc.

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