General behavior and parameters affecting the Ink jet printing phenomenon on woven polyester fabric

Studying textile wettability has important implications in textile industries and paper treatment as the detergency, the chemistry and material-selection procedures of modern engineering materials, such as ink jet printing. This present paper aims to study the effect of different parameters of liquid, fabric structure and experiment on the liquid drop impact. The digidrop with high resolution camera is used to measure the different parameters characterizing this phenomenon. The obtained results show that the high drop projection affects deeply the drop profile and the spreading behavior after important drop deformation at the surface impact. Then, the fabric construction as the weft count and the nature of fiber influence the drop impact. For the plain weave, an increase of weft count causes a decrease of penetration and increase the spreading rate. Finally, the surface tension of used liquid drop influences the general behavior of wetting phenomenon.