CN-117412866-B - Textile printing

Abstract

An example method includes providing a textile on which a printing fluid is to be deposited at a printing station and supporting the textile by a support member. The support member is used to advance the textile through the printing station. Example methods include increasing a size of a support member to increase a size of a textile and advancing the textile toward a printing station by advancing the support member toward the printing station.

Inventors

• Maria Isabelle Borel Bayona
• Marina Cantero Lazaro
• Diana Cantor Estani

Assignees

• 惠普发展公司，有限责任合伙企业

Dates

Publication Date

20260512

Application Date

20210524

Claims (9)

1. 1. A method for printing, comprising: providing a textile on which a printing fluid is to be deposited at a printing station; supporting the textile by a support member to advance the textile through the printing station; Increasing the size of the support member to increase the size of the textile product, including moving a first portion of the support member relative to a second portion of the support member, and Advancing the textile toward the printing station by advancing the support member toward the printing station, Wherein moving the first portion of the support member comprises rotating the first portion of the support member to increase the size of the textile in one direction by rotation.
2. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein at the printing station an image is to be transferred to the textile and wherein the method further comprises: The image is resized by a processor to modify the size of the image to be transferred to the textile.
3. 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising: The support member is placed inside the textile or between the first and second portions of the support member such that the textile is supported by the support member.
4. 4. A support for a textile product for advancing the textile product through a printing station of a printing machine, the support comprising: A first support member for supporting a first portion of the textile; a second support member for supporting a second portion of the textile, Wherein the first support member and the second support member are movable relative to each other to change a size of the textile while the first portion and the second portion of the textile are supported by the first support member and the second support member, wherein one of the first support member and the second support member comprises a portion of a rotatable member, wherein the size of the textile is increased in one direction by rotating the rotatable member.
5. 5. The support of claim 4, wherein a rotatable one of the first and second support members includes teeth to grip the textile such that the textile is held by the rotatable support member.
6. 6. The support of claim 4, wherein one of the first support member and the second support member includes a clamping element to clamp the textile.
7. 7. A base for holding and advancing a textile through a printing machine, the base comprising a first side and a second side, each side to hold a portion of the textile, wherein a portion of the first side or the second side is movable away from and towards the other side such that a distance between the first side and the second side is adjustable such that the base is to adjust a size of a textile held by the first side and the second side of the base, wherein movable portion comprises a rotatable element, wherein by rotating the rotatable element, the size of the textile is increased in one direction.
8. 8. The base of claim 7, wherein the rotatable element comprises protrusions to grip the textile.
9. 9. The base of claim 7, wherein one of the first side and the second side includes an attachment member to retain a portion of the textile.

Description

Textile printing Technical Field Some printing machines are used to print onto textiles, for example, by depositing a printing fluid on the textile. Drawings Examples will now be described, by way of non-limiting examples, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIGS. 1A and 1B are simplified schematic views of an example support; FIGS. 2A and 2B are simplified schematic views of an example support for supporting a textile; FIG. 3A is a simplified schematic diagram of an example support; FIG. 3B is a simplified schematic diagram of an example support member; FIGS. 4A and 4B are simplified schematic views of an example support for supporting a textile; FIGS. 5A and 5B are simplified schematic views of example supports; FIGS. 6A and 6B are simplified schematic diagrams of example supports; FIGS. 7A and 7B are simplified schematic diagrams of example supports; FIGS. 8A, 8B and 8C are simplified schematic views of an example support for supporting a textile and urging the textile toward a printing station; FIG. 9 is a flow chart of an example method, and Fig. 10 is a flow chart of an example method. Detailed Description In textile printing, a printing fluid may be deposited on the textile. This may be used to print an image (e.g., an inked image) thereon or may be used to color a portion or all of the textile (which may be considered to be printing a mono-or multi-color image to the textile). In order for the printing fluid to transfer an image or color to the textile, thereby achieving good print quality (or high quality apparel), the transfer should achieve good saturation, uniformity, and hand. However, sometimes the three-dimensional structure of the textile may present challenges, as certain printing fluids may not properly penetrate the different layers of the textile. For example, the textile may include a network of interlocking fabrics (and/or yarns and/or threads and/or strands, etc.) formed by intertwining and/or interweaving and/or intertwining and/or knitting, etc. the fabrics (and/or yarns, etc.) into layers. These are sometimes referred to as "warp" and "weft". For example, a fabric network may include two distinct sets of fibers (and/or yarns, etc.) of textile material, such as fabric and/or cloth, etc., that are woven (and/or interwoven, etc.) with one another to form a textile, wherein the longitudinal threads are referred to as warp threads and the transverse threads are referred to as weft threads. The warp and weft may be referred to as "threads" of a textile and may include textile materials, such as fabric materials and/or yarns and/or cloths, and the like. Thus, the textile may comprise a network of inter-woven and/or interwoven and/or intertwined and/or inter-locked and/or inter-entangled and/or knitted threads and/or yarns and/or strands and/or fibres etc., such as a network of cloth and/or fabric and/or textile material and/or strings and/or ropes etc. The textile may comprise a fabric and/or garment and/or cloth and/or garment and the like. The textile may comprise woven and/or non-woven materials. The threads (or yarns or fibers, etc.) of the textile may comprise natural or synthetic materials. During some printing processes, the textile material may lay down on a flat surface and the threads of the textile may be close to each other such that droplets of any printing fluid deposited thereon may have difficulty properly penetrating the textile threads. Thus, the textile may not have the desired color depth, richness, or uniformity. Thus, textiles may have poor color coverage, low saturation, and may be considered inferior. Some examples herein relate to stretching a textile, for example, by increasing the size of the textile, prior to the printing process. This will extend the distance between adjacent threads (e.g., warp and/or weft) of the textile to allow the printing fluid to better penetrate to color the textile. In turn, this will improve the print quality and/or uniformity of the final textile, and this can be achieved using the same amount of printing fluid (e.g., without using more printing fluid to achieve improved quality). The stretching of the textile may be a predetermined amount, for example it may be a stretching between 0cm and 2 cm. The textile may be stretched in a textile advance direction (e.g., a media advance direction) and/or in a direction perpendicular to the textile advance direction (e.g., a cross-web direction). Stretching the textile may change the textile from, for example, a loose or relaxed state to a taut or strained state. Because the size of the textile is large, according to some examples, the image to be transferred to the textile may be enlarged, for example, by a processor (e.g., a processor executing machine-readable instructions), and the image transferred to the textile may include a resized image. In this way, although the textile is stretched, the final image to be printed to the textile may be sized as originally intended