Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Method of ink jet printing on cloth
 An ink jet printing method in which ink is applied to cloth by an ink jet method, having the steps of adjusting the moisture content of the cloth to a value higher than the official moisture regain of the constituent fibers of the cloth by 5 to 100% by weight, applying ink to the adjusted cloth in a recording density of 9 dots/mm.sup.2 to 1225 dots/mm.sup.2, and wherein an amount of the dye of the ink applied to the cloth is adjusted within the range of 0.025 to 1 mg/cm.sup.2, dyeing the cloth with the dye in the ink by heat treatment, and washing out the remaining dye. The method can obtain a sharp color print with high density, high precision and no bleeding and can solve the problem with respect to environmental pollution caused by waste water. 
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
D
D06P
inventional
Shoji Tomoya
Koike Yamamoto