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ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING

In the modern times of excessive production and consumption of resources, meaning (textile) products, noting that the textile industry is one of the biggest polluter of the environment, the printing industry attaches great importance to environmental protection and eco-design. The need for speed in the production of textile (and other) products surely has certain consequences for the economy, ecology and society, as well as for human health, given the harmful by-products that inevitably arise from the textile industry. In the field of textile printing technology, in order to adapt the production method to certain requirements, digital printing is considered one of the most environmentally friendly techniques due to low cost, high precision and speed and low consumption of water, energy and chemicals. Nevertheless, digital printing also has certain advantages and disadvantages over traditional techniques. For example, compared to screen printing, more dye, energy and water consuming, digital printing needs fabric pretreatment, which in turn requires raw materials and energy and causes environmental impacts. Digital printing is better for small batches also because of the flexibility of the system and fewer amounts of production waste etc. In addition to the chosen technique, in the context of economy, the choice of fabric type for printing is of great importance. By choosing an environmentally friendly base material, environmental impacts of printed products can be reduced. This paper reviews digital printing technology in the context of environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on analyzing its advantages and disadvantages over traditional printing techniques. The paper analyzes the ecological aspects of the types of pretreatments and dyes, ie the optimal choice of the same with the aim of advancing the technique of digital printing and high quality ecological textiles production.

Digital printing, Dyes, Ecological aspects of printing, Sustainability, Pigments, Screen printing

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