Inkjet-printable silks, cottons, linens, rayons, and nylons

We treat for Pigment, Acid, Reactive, and Disperse dye ink systems

 Jacquard Inkjet Fabric systems has merged with our parent company, Jacquard Products, to provide streamlined fabric coating services to our valued customers.

Please contact service@jacquardproducts.com, or call 707-433-9577 to place orders and obtain our current list of available fabrics

SERVICES:

Custom Fabric Coating

Paper Backing

FABRICS:

Cotton Sateen - 60”

Cotton Percale - 60”

Cotton Twill - 8.5 oz - 60”

Cotton Canvas - 6.5 oz - 56”

Linen - 5.5 oz - 56”

Linen - 7.5 oz - 56”

Silk Organza - 55”

Silk Habotai - 10 mm - 55”

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Have a special project in mind? Need to treat thousands of yards of fabric? We custom coat and paper back many fabrics and other substrates. We can coat up to 72” wide and paperback up to 60” wide. Please note that when treating, paperback, and trimming customer’s fabrics, shrinkage and loss will often occur. We are not responsible for loss during pretreatment and preparation.

** There is a 20 yard minimum for all fabric purchased or droppshipped to Jacquard for coating and/or paper-backing. This does not apply to raw fabric purchases that will not be treated.

*** There is a minimum order dollar value for $200. Orders with a lesser value will be accepted, but rounded up to $200.

****If fabric for a single order arrives in pieces and any piece is less than 17 yards of continous fabric, each must be sewn together before coating (see cost for sewing below).

Additional Services & Fees

Pre-rolling: $25 per roll / $45 for multiple pieces

Sewing: $12 per seam

Packing: $4 per roll

Trimming (Slitting): $8

WHAT KIND OF COATING DO I NEED?

There are 3 main types of digital printing that we serve: Pigment printing, reactive dye printing, and acid dye printing.

Pigment prints work on all fabrics except polyesters and is the most popular type of printing at this point. Pigment inks are basically like paints—there is a colorant, a carrier, and a binder. Standard desktop printers and wide format plotters (Epson, Canon, HP) have weak binders that are suitable and designed for paper.  Textile-Specific pigment inks have a much stronger binder. We treat fabrics with our proprietary coating called Fabrisign. There are other pigment coatings available for purchase, but ours works differently than the rest. It is much more viscous and seems to act much more strongly, attracting the pigment chromophores themselves rather than enhancing binders or utilizing other ways of making a better pigment print. It also acts as an anti-migrant, preventing the printer ink from bleeding. Our pretreatment will react with standard graphics inks (the Epson, Canon, and HP inks) and actually make them highly was resistant. Textile-specific pigment inks become washfast ( by commercial standards—there is still commercially acceptable fading that occurs with all pigment prints, digital or otherwise. In order to be considered “washfast” an item needs to only withstand 5 washes under stated condition [i.e. water temp, wash vigor, etc]). Pigment inks generally stick to the surface—that’s by design. If they penetrated, they would look less bright. Because of this, there is very little “print-through”, which means that you own’t see your print on the other side of the fabric. Pigments are considered highly lightfast, but are weak in crock (rubbing resistance) and washfastness

Reactive Prints work on Cotton, Linen, Rayon (cellulosic fibers) as well as silk. Reactive inks are made with reactive dyes solubilized in a special carrier. The carrier is more or less specific to the print head (not to be confused with the printer!). Pretreatment recipes are readily available, although all differ slightly and provide slightly different results. All reactive prints need to be steam-set and washed after printing before use/sale. The essential principle of  reactive coating is to make the fabric basic, provide antimigration for the inks, and add a humectant to facilitate steaming. We use Soda Ash, Methylcellulose, and Urea for this, but there are other ingredients that can be used in their place. We add a cationic fixative to ours which works to attract the dyes and keep them from washing out in the first washes. Reactive (and acid) dye printing has more print through than pigments and generally (but not always!) yield brighter, stronger colors. There are tricks to increase print through, such as diluting the ink and increasing the printer’s output. Reactive dye printing is considered highly washfast and crockfast (resists rubbing , since the chromophores are creating a covalent bond with the fibers, but this bond is relatively easily broken by UV light, making reactive dyes not very lightfast

Acid Prints work on silk, wool, nylon, acetate, and other protein fibers. Acid inks are made with acid  dyes solubilized in a special carrier. The carrier is more or less specific to the print head (not to be confused with the printer!). The process is similar to reactive prints, except an ionic bond is formed rather than a covalent. The coating acidifies the fabric rather than making it more basic, and we do not add the cationic fixative to our acid coating. Reactive dyes also seem to work on silk coated for Acid. Nylon is one of the most temperamental of fabrics to print on, but it does work with acid coating and acid dyes.

Polyester is generally printed by printing on special transfer paper (in mirror image) then heat-pressing that paper to polyester. This is called Dye-Sublimation printing. We do not service folks who use polyesters, since they generally don’t need us. There is a pretreatment for printing direct onto polyester, but we no longer provide that.