Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Ink-jet textile printing process
 Provided is an ink-jet textile printing process imparting an ink to a cloth by ink-jet method, which process comprises at least the following three steps of (a) imparting dots with a dot diameter of from r to 2r (r is nozzle pitch) to said cloth, by causing ink droplets to fly by means of a head having a plurality of nozzles capable of making a record at equal intervals in a density of from 3 nozzles/mm to 35 nozzles/mm; (b) diffusing the ink dots adhered to the cloth within a range of from 0.2r to 3r as an increase in said dot diameter and simultaneously dyeing the cloth with the dye diffused in said cloth, by applying to said cloth having been subjected to the step (a) a heat treatment at 90.degree. C. to 150.degree. C. accompanied by steam; (c) washing away a dye having not been adsorbed or fixed. 
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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D06P
inventional
Shoji Tomoya
Koike Yamamoto