Pigments for screen printing, rotary screen, and digital textile printing on cotton, polyester, and blended fabrics.
Discuss Your ApplicationTextile pigment printing on cotton, polyester, and blends produces vivid prints with one process step (no separate dyeing). The pigment is dispersed in a binder paste, screen- or digitally-printed onto fabric, then cured. The pigment's compatibility with the binder, its wash fastness through household laundry, and its hand feel on the fabric determine commercial success.
Common textile printing pigments include: PY74, PY83, PY154 (yellows), PR48:2, PR112, PR170 (reds and rubines), PR122 (quinacridone violet for premium prints), PB15:3 (process blue), PG7 (green), and carbon black. Surface-treated grades disperse cleaner in textile binder pastes and give smoother prints with less screen mesh blocking.
Wash fastness in pigment printing depends primarily on the binder cure quality, not the pigment itself. Pigments don't dye the fiber — they sit on the surface, held in place by the binder. Choose binder systems matched to your end-use (light-duty, heavy-duty, dry-clean) and cure to manufacturer specs.
Critical for textile pigments: only use grades certified free from the 24 banned aromatic amines (REACH). Many countries require this certification for textiles in skin contact. We provide a banned-amines-free certificate with every textile-grade shipment.
Cotton screen-printing pigments need to disperse cleanly in water-based binder pastes. Recommended: PY74, PY83, PY154, PR48:2, PR112, PR170, PR122, PB15:3, PG7. Surface-treated grades give smoother prints with less screen blocking. For dark fabrics, pre-treat with a white opacifier base before color printing.
Digital textile printing with inkjet heads requires very fine, low-viscosity pigment dispersions that don't clog nozzles. Specialized digital-textile-grade pigments are produced with d50 less than 0.3 micron and stabilized for inkjet rheology. Most major suppliers offer digital-textile variants of PY74, PR122, PB15:3, PG7, and CMYK process colors.
Yes. All Kanani textile-grade pigments are tested per EN ISO 17234 and EN ISO 14362 and certified free from the 24 banned aromatic amines listed in EU Directive 2002/61/EC. A banned-amines-free certificate ships with every textile-grade consignment as standard.
Share your binder system, processing temperature, and required performance — our technical sales team will recommend the right grade and ship a free 50-100g sample for qualification.
