THE INFLUENCE OF WASHING TREATMENT AND MACRO NON-UNIFORMITY ON COLOR REPRODUCTION OF SCREEN PRINTED COTTON KNITTED FABRICS
During lifetime printed textile products are exposed to various influences and one of the most important factors that affects the print quality of textile materials is the washing treatment. It causes a change of the textile structure and textile fibers and influences color reproduction quality. The aim of this paper is to define the effect of the washing treatment and different mesh thread count on the quality parameters of screen printed samples, i.e. cotton substrates. This is done by color reproduction analysis and print mottle analysis described by GLCM parameters. The results of the research show that increasing the number of washing treatments causes an increase of color difference between washed and unwashed samples. It also shows that printing screen mesh count and substrate characteristics have great influence on color differences. Besides that, washing treatment also causes noticeable changes of GLCM parameters, which are also dependent on printing screen mesh count and substrate characteristics.