Abstract: Phthalocyanine compounds of Formula (1) have utility as colorants in inks for ink-jet printing, where Formula (1) represents: and all IJP-effective forms of such compounds; and in which M represents a metal or H; Pc represents a phthalocyanine nucleus of Formula (2) x+y+z represents an average from 3 to 4; and z may be zero. A represents C1-4-alkylene; R1, R3 each independently represent H or C1-4-alkyl; R4 represents H; or C1-4-alkyl optionally substituted with hydroxy; R5 represents a carboxylic acid substituted aryl group; and R2 represents H, C1-4-alkyl or a group of formula BD where: B represents C1-4-alkylene; and D represents NR6R7;or SC1-4alkyleneSO3H; where: R6 represents H; or C1-4alkyl, optionally subsititued by hydroxy; R7 represents H; C1-4alkyl, optionally subsititued by hydroxy or morphlino; or R6 and R7 together with the N atom to which they are attached form a morpholino or piperazino ring.

Abstract: Dye preparations comprising, based in each case on the weight of the preparation, from 0.1 to 30% by weight of one or more dyes from the class of the mono- or polyazo dyes containing no acidic groups, from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a dispersant based on an arylsulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate or from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a water-soluble dispersant based on alkoxylated phenols with or without water, and their use as inks in the inkjet process and for textile sublimation transfer printing.

Abstract: The dyes have an average particle size within the range from 5 nm to 1 &mgr;m and a variance of less than 50%. They are especially useful for ink-jet ink preparations.

Abstract: Textiles are treated with a polymer or copolymer of epihalohydrin and polyalkylene amine prior to ink jet printing onto the textile. A softener such as a quaternary ammonium salt may also be used, as may be a cationic binder.

Abstract: A process for printing a textile material which has been dyed with a dischargeable dye is provided. The process includes the steps of applying to a first selected portion of the textile material a discharge composition comprising a discharge agent in an amount sufficient to at least partially discharge the dye from the first selected portion of the textile material where the discharge composition is applied, applying to a second selected portion of the textile material a coloring composition comprising a pigment in an amount sufficient to color the dye in the second selected potion of the textile material where the coloring composition is applied, and heating the textile material to a drying temperature for a time sufficient to discharge the dye from the material and fix the pigment. A textile material having a multi-toned colored design or pattern is also provided by the process of the present invention.

Abstract: A process for improving the ultraviolet stability of aramid and aramid-blend fabrics by pigment printing or padding the fabrics. The pigment printing process comprises the steps of supplying an aramid textile fabric free of highly polar solvents and dye diffusion promoting agents; pigment printing the fabric by applying onto the fabric a print paste comprising pigment, binder, print paste thickener, and water, the print paste being substantially free of carriers; and drying, then curing the thus-treated fabric at a temperature and for a time sufficient to fix the pigment on the aramid fibers.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing and distributing a garment that commemorates a tangible object that has served as an instrument in the performance of a spectator event is disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a dye mixture comprising an azo dye of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: Disclosed are dye mixtures for shading white paper which may contain fluorescent brightener. The dye mixtures comprise a violet dye according to the formula (1) or (2) indicated in claim 1 and sufficient of a red, blue or further violet anionic azo dye that this dye mixture is capable of producing in the Cielab colour co-ordinates system a relative hue angle of 270 to 295° when the dyeing contains 0.00005 to 0.005% by weight of dye, based on the weight of the paper, with the proviso that the value 0.005% is excluded.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) with the meanings of R1, R1′, R2, R2′, X, X′, Y, Y′, m and n as given in claim 1 can be used as paper dyes or direct dyes or for the preparation of ink-jet inks.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet printing cloth composed of cellulose fibers, wherein the specific gravity of the cloth in an absolute dry condition is controlled within a range of from 1.45 to 1.49 by mercerization.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for printing textile fibre materials by the ink-jet printing process, wherein the fibre materials are printed with an aqueous ink comprising at least one disperse dye, an anionic copolymer and/or a nonionic block polymer and/or a dispersant, and to the inks comprising these components.

Abstract: Phthalocyanine compounds of Formula (1) have utility as colorants in inks for ink jet printing, where Formula (1) represents: 1

Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods for improving the quality of images printed on a substrate. The novel image-enhancing compositions contain an image-enhancing agent comprising a mixture of a polyacid and a polybase. When applied to a substrate, the compositions provide for high quality printed images when the treated substrate is printed on with an ink containing a reactive dye having ionizable and/or nucleophilic groups capable of reacting with the image-enhancing agent. Images printed on a substrate treated with the image-enhancing compositions of the invention are bleed-resistant, water-resistant (e.g., water-fast), and/or are characterized by enhanced chroma and hue.

Abstract: Process for dyeing or printing paper, films of plastic or fibre material containing hydroxyl groups or containing nitrogen with reactive dyes, which comprises using at least one reactive dye of the formula (1) from the following group a) and at least one reactive dye from the following groups b), c) and d): a) green- or blue-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (1) b) blue-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (2) or (3) c) red-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (4) d) yellow- or orange-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (5)

Abstract: A polyfunctional polycarbodiimide compound contains at least four molecular chains bonded independently to a backbone. Each of the molecular chains contains a carbodiimido (—N═C═N—) group. The polyfunctional carbodiimide compound can be produced by reacting (a) an isocyanate compound having at least one carbodiimido group and at least one isocyanate group with (b) a polyol, polyamine and/or aminoalcohol having at least four hydroxyl, primary amino and/or secondary amino groups in a molecule. Also disclosed are a resin composition containing the polyfunctional polycarbodiimide compound as a crosslinking agent; and a treatment method of an article, which makes use of the resin composition.

Abstract: Phthalocyanine compounds of Formula (1) have utility as colorants in inks for ink-jet printing, where Formula (1) represents: which includes all IJP-effective forms of such compounds; and in which: M represents a metal or H; A represents C1 4alkylene; Pc represents a phthalocyanine nucleus of Formula (2): D represents NR4R5 or SC1-4alkyleneSO3H; R1, R2 and R3each independently represents H or C1-4-alkyl; R4 represents H,; or C1-4-alkyl optionally substituted by hydroxy; R5 represents C1-4alkyl optionally substituted by hydroxy and/or morpholino; or R4 and R5 together with the N atom to which they are attached form a morpholino ring; and x+y+z represents an average of from 3 to 4.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a fabric for ink jet printing and to an ink jet printing method for imparting to the fabric a clear and sharp image free from ink oozing in ink jet printing. Specifically, it relates to a method of manufacturing a fabric for ink jet printing which is characterized in that an aqueous treatment solution having a water-insoluble solvent dispersed or emulsified in an aqueous polymer solution is imparted to the fabric and dried; and to an ink jet printing method characterized in that the ink jet printing is made with the ink jet printing fabric used and that after developing, the pretreatment agent is removed by washing the fabric.

Abstract: The use of water-soluble quinacridones of the formula I ##STR1## where M.sup..sym. is a lithium, sodium, potassium or ammonium cation,R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently are hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkoxy, carboxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl, sulfamoyl, mono- or di-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkylsulfamoyl, carbamoyl, mono- or di-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkylcarbamoyl, unsubstituted or substituted mono- or diphenylsulfamoyl, unsubstituted or substituted mono- or diphenylcarbamoyl, halogen, nitro or cyano,n is 0, 1 or 2 andm is 0, 1 or 2 and the sum n+m is at least 1,for dyeing and printing natural and synthetic fiber material.

Abstract: An interior base material is obtained by a method comprising a step of treating with a treating agent which comprises (A) a water-insoluble water-absorbent resin having a water absorbency to pure water for 50 to 1,000 ml/g and a particle size of 0.1 to 100 .mu.m, (B) a polyoxyalkylene nonionic surfactant and/or an anionic surfactant, and (C) a solvent having the boiling point of 50 to 250.degree. C. A process for printing the thus-treated interior base material comprises applying a dye ink having a viscosity of 1 to 100 cps by an ink-jet method, or applying a textile printing dye paste having a viscosity of 100 to 10,000 cps by a textile printing method followed by a heat-color developing treatment.

Abstract: Dye preparations useful as inks in the inkjet process and for sublimation transfer printing comprise, based on the weight of each preparation, from 0.1 to 30% by weight of one or more methine dyes, from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a dispersant based on an arylsulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensation product or from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a water-soluble dispersant based on alkoxylated phenols and optionally water.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for printing fibre material with reactive dyes, which comprises the fibre material to be printed first being treated with an aqueous alkaline liquor, optionally dried and then printed with a print paste comprising at least one reactive dye, a thickener and optionally further additives with the exception of an alkali or an alkali donor.

Abstract: Process for dyeing or printing paper, films of plastic or fibre material containing hydroxyl groups or containing nitrogen with reactive dyes, which comprises using at least one reactive dye of the formula (1) from the following group a) and at least one reactive dye from the following groups b), c) and d):a) green- or blue-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (1) ##STR1## b) blue-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (2) or (3) ##STR2## c) red-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (4) ##STR3## d) yellow- or orange-dyeing reactive dyes of the formula (5) ##STR4##

Abstract: Stain-resistant nylon carpet is prepared by dyeing and printing cationic-dyeable nylon fibers with acid or premetallized dye. Lightfastness and depth of shade of an apparent value equal to acid dyeable nylons is obtained with superior stain resistance equal to commercially available solution dyed nylon carpeting.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for dyeing or printing fiber material by the pigment dyeing or pigment printing process, which comprises applying to the fiber material, and subsequently fixing, a dyeing liquor or a print paste comprising at least one dye of the formulaD--(X).sub.n (1)in whichD is a radical of an insoluble organic dye of the phthalocyanine, perinone, indigoid, thioindigoid, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, isoindolinone, perylene, quinacridone, metal complex, monoazo, disazo, trisazo or anthraquinone series, X is a hydrophilic polar radical, and n is 1, 2 or 3, and at least one pigment dye binder, and also, if desired, further auxiliaries.

Abstract: Waterfast ink jet printing onto textiles is performed by treating the textiles with a polymer or copolymer of epihalohydrin prior to the ink jet printing process. A softener such as a tetraalkylammonium salt may also be used, as may be a cationic binder.

Abstract: A wool attaching machine for cloth is composed of a working table, a conveyer, a plurality of printing rollers, a bonding agent transfer device, a static electricity wool attaching device and a baking device. The conveyer is installed on the working table for delivering cloth, and the printing rollers are used for printing patterns on the cloth. The bonding agent transfer device has a bonding agent roller with stencil patterns, a strainer net attached closely to an inner surface of the stencil patterns, to enable bonding agent in the bonding agent roller to penetrate slowly from the strainer net through the stencil patterns onto the cloth to form bonding agent patterns. The static electricity wool attaching device is installed behind the bonding agent transfer device.

Abstract: Improved dyeing processes for yarn and fabric materials are described. Dye pattern definition on a textile material is enhanced by treating the fabric or the fibers from which it is made with a quaternary ammonium compound and by including in the dye composition a gum which will react with the quaternary ammonium compound to form a viscous gel. The gel minimizes migration of the dye prior to fixation of the dye, and therefore pattern definition is improved. Similar improvements can be obtained when space dyeing yarn that comprises fibers that have been so treated.

Abstract: A disperse dye mixture which comprises, on a weight basis, from 5% to 70% of the dye of Formula (1), from 5% to 70% of the dye of Formula (2), and from 0% to 40% of the dye of Formula (3), wherein each of R and R.sup.1 represents an alkylene group and each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for printing hydrophobic fibre materials with disperse dyes, which comprises a procedure in which the fibre materials A) are dyed over the entire area or printed over the entire area with a disperse dye andB) are printed in areas with a printing paste comprisingat least one disperse dye,at least one cationic dyeing assistant andat least one nonionic detergentit being possible for steps A) and B) to be carried out in any sequence and for step B) to be repeated several times with different dyes, the fibre material treated in this way is dried and the dye is then fixed on the fibre material by a heat treatment.Multicolored prints with sharp contours and very good fastnesses to hot light are obtained by the process according to the invention.

Abstract: Stain-resistant, lightfast nylon carpet is prepared by dyeing cationic-dyeable nylon fibers by applying a print paste containing an acid dye or a premetallized acid dye at a pH of from about 2.0 to about 6-5 and fixing the dye to the fibers, forming the printed nylon fibers into a carpet, applying a print paste containing an acid dye or premetallized acid dye and dyeing the nylon fibers contacted with the print pastes and thereafter heating the dyeladen fibers to fix the dye into the fibers. Stain-resistant lightfast nylon yarns are prepared by printing cationic-dyeable yarn with a premetallized acid dye at a pH of about 4.0 to less than about 6.5 then fixing the dye to the yarn.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of textile printing using microorganisms with less limitation to dyes with less damage on base materials, and with less blurring of color borders. The method is capable of producing a complex, fine pattern; capable of realizing colored discharge printing with brilliant colors; and capable of readily producing an ombre pattern. The invention also provides a microorganism for decolorization of azo-system dye and use in the textile printing method. In accordance with the invention, textile printing is carried out by coating a solution or paste (which may contain a dye) containing a bacterial strain Bacillus OY1-2 of genus Bacillus (Deposit Number: FERM 13118), in a desirable pattern on the cloth dyed with an azo dye (which may include a non-azo dye), subsequently proliferating or acting the bacterial strain while keeping the strain in a wet state, and to entirely or partially metabolize the azo dye to eliminate or decrease the coloring of the azo dye for textile printing.

Abstract: A textile-printing method imparts ink containing a cyan disperse dye and ink containing blue disperse dye on a cloth such that the cyan ink and the blue ink are at least partially overlapped, thereby forming a color mixture portion on the cloth, wherein a weight ratio of the cyan dye to the blue dye at the overlapped portion is specified in the range of from 10:1 to 100:1.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of textile printing using microorganisms with less limitation to dyes with less damage on base materials, and with less blurring of color borders. The method is capable of producing a complex, fine pattern; capable of realizing colored discharge printing with brilliant colors; and capable of readily producing an ombre pattern. The invention also provides a microorganism for decolorization of azo-system dye and use in the textile printing method.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of textile printing using microorganisms with less limitation to dyes, with less damage on base materials, and with less blurring of color borders. The method is capable of producing a complex, fine pattern; capable of realizing colored discharge printing with brilliant colors; and capable of readily producing an ombre pattern. The invention also provides a microorganism for decolorization of azo-system dye and use in the textile printing method.

Abstract: A print paste composition contains, as binder, a curable polymer which is free of N-methylol groups and which contains anhydride-forming dicarboxylic acid and/or dicarboxylic anhydride groups which can react with hydroxyl groups in the cotton or other textile substrate and/or with hydoxyl or epoxy groups in the curable polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to water-soluble, acid-groups-containing graft copolymers which are at least partially biodegradable and are based on sugars and monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids and/or phosphonic acids or the salts of said acids as well as optional further monomers. The present invention further relates to a process for producing the graft copolymers at temperatures of up to 200.degree. C. by means of-radical polymerization initiators, in that a total mixture of 5-60%-wt. mono-, di- and oligosaccharides, the derivatives thereof or the mixtures thereof, and 95-40%-wt. of a monomer mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, at least one monoethylenically unsaturated sulfonic acid, one monoethylenically unsaturated sulfuric acid ester and/or vinylphosphonic acid or the salts of said acids with monovalent cations, as well as optional further monomers is polymerized.

Abstract: A fiber finish composition is described which enhances the dyeability of the fiber or textile materials made from the fiber. The finish composition includes an alkyl substituted quaternary ammonium cation and a barrier agent. An aqueous dispersion of the finish composition is the preferred method of applying the finish composition to fibers. Also included is an improved method of dyeing fibers and textile materials using the fiber finish composition.

Abstract: A method for applying an image to a light switch plate is provided. The method specifically enables the application of an image continuously and without interruption to both the surface of the plate and to the heads of the screws that are used in mounting the plate to a wall or other supporting surface.

Abstract: A storage system for round stencils, in particular those used in the textile industry, has two or several holders for releasably holding the round stencils. The holders of the storage system may be moved by a drive, preferably all together. Also disclosed is an application system which has besides the production machine and the storage system a separate washing installation for cleaning the round stencils taken from the production machine. In the washing installation, the round stencils are sprayed from the inside and cleaned from the outside, in particular by brushes, at the same time as they are rotated.

Abstract: A paper for thermal image transfer to flat porous surfaces is characterized by a paper support and a layer applied thereto which contains an ethylene copolymer or an ethylene copolymer mixture and a dye-receiving layer.

Abstract: An improved method of printing designs on pile fabrics. The finish on the fabric is removed by a washing process or other method. The lack of a finish on the fabric allows the ink maximum absorption. The design to be printed on the fabric is translated from a line drawing into a series of parallel line images oriented on a printing surface so that they are parallel to the pile of the fabric. The use of such parallel line images allows the inks to be placed inside or on top of the pile of fabric. The fabric may be printed using hand printing, automatic rotary printing, or application printing. The automatic rotary printing process is preferred as it gives maximum utility in that it provides an even ink distribution on the fabric and is typically the most economical way of printing. The method applies the inks or dye stuffs utilizing the weave of the fabric so that the ink or dye stuffs rest inside the pile.

Abstract: The invention relates to fibre-reactive anthraquinone dyes of formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, B, U, R and n are as defined in claim 1. The anthraquinone dyes of formula (1) are suitable for dyeing or printing hydroxyl group containing or nitrogen-containing fibre materials and give dyeings or prints of good allround fastness properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to sulphoalkylcellulose derivatives, in particular sulphoethylcellulose, with a degree of substitution by sulphoethyl groups of 1.2 to 2.0 using a one- to three-step, preferably two-step process and the use of the sulphoalkyl-cellulose derivatives as thickening agents or rheology improvers in textile printing.

Abstract: A color enhancing agent comprising water, urea and a quaternary ammonium compound of the Formula (1): ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each independently selected from H and C.sub.1-20 -optionally substituted alkyl or alkylene;R.sup.4 is C.sub.1-20 -optionally substituted alkyl or alkylene; andX.sup.- is an anion,provided that the total number of carbon atoms in the compound of Formula (1) is more than 30. The color enhancing agent can be used in pre-treatment compositions for textile materials prior to ink jet printing with a reactive dye and improves color yields.

Abstract: A textile substrate is dyed by immersing it in a gathered configuration into an oil medium containing a dissolved or dispersed dye for a sufficient time to allow the oil medium to come into contact with part but not all of the surface of the substrate and the thus-treated substrate is then preferably immersed in an aqueous medium having another dye dissolved or dispersed therein.

Abstract: A process is provided for the pattern dyeing of textile materials wherein dye migration may be inhibited by the in-situ formation of a coordination complex of metal-thickener-dye when the dye-thickener solution is applied to the textile material pretreated with an aqueous solution of a water soluble salt of the metal. The metal is selected from zirconium, hafnium or aluminum. The thickener may be a naturally derived aqueous system thickener, such as guar gum, xanthan gum or other water-soluble gum thickener or may be a synthetically derived aqueous system thickener, such as polyacrylics and polyacrylamides.

Abstract: A viscous printing paste is imprinted on a reverse surface of a foundation fabric of a surface-type fastener, and then the paste while being viscous is drawn by a suction force to penetrate the foundation fabric from the reverse surface to an obverse surface from which a multiplicity of interlocking elements project. Upon setting of the printing paste, a distinctive mark is produced on the obverse surface of the foundation fabric. With the foregoing processing steps, a large mark can be provided on the surface-type fastener without effecting negative influence on the shape and function of the interlocking elements.

Abstract: Gel particle dye liquors for imparting color to textiles are disclosed. The gel particles are prepared by mixing a first composition comprising a alginic acid or an alginic acid derivative with a second composition comprising a mixture of at least one monovalent chloride salt and at least one polyvalent metal salt.At least one of the compositions contains a dye resulting in the formation of a colored suspension of gel particles in water.

Abstract: In the printing of dyes onto substrates, the pretreatment of the substrates with low levels of calcium or sodium salts or other gelling/insolubilizing agents effectively reduces dye usage.