Investigatory Project : the Feasibility of Used Cooking Oil and Charcoal as an Alternative Ink for T-Shirt Prints
T-shirt, Undergarment, Suit (clothing) * By thanzskie * Sep 28, 2012 * 3600 Words * 1567 Views
The Feasibility of Used Cooking Oil and Charcoal as an Alternative Ink for T-shirt Prints

Chapter 1
Background of the Study
When most people think of modern technological innovations, the first thing that comes to their minds are the advancements of technology in computers, communication devices and many more. However, there is a modern technological advancement in the field of fashion too, and one of it is the advancement in textile printing that has led to the rise in fashion clothing. Today, clothing has taken great technological progress in its production and it influences the fashion world alot. Fashion has always been an artistic expression and the style of many. Trends are always changing and evolving, extremely demanding the fashion technology faster than ever before. Printed t-shirts are a great example of how the industry had used these technical innovations to give it a new face everyday. Textile printing has opened new avenues using these developments in t-shirt printing (http://web2logs.com/art/design/types-of-inks-used-in-printed-t-shirts/). The most noticeable change have been in the use of inks for t-shirt is the plastisol, it is used as an ink for screen printing designs onto garments, and are particularly useful for printing opaque graphics on dark fabrics. Plastisol that is used in printing, stated in an online reference, that it is a hazardous component of printing t-shirts. These hazardous components of printing may lead you to have a Hodkins Lymphoma, a type of cancer that attacks your lymph system. Many teenagers are a fan of t-shirts this where their feelings are verbalized through expressive messages, such as: quotations, sayings, pick-up-lines, and many more. These t-shirts prints are usually printed using platisol, which as mentioned above is hazardous and expensive, which made the service they give, expensive. So our group decided to study and find an alternative ink that...
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