...Saira Faisal; Muhammad Ali; Sheraz Hussain Siddique; Long Lin Purpose Pretreatment of fabric with a number of chemicals and auxiliaries is a prerequisite for inkjet printing. Owing to the rapidly increasing use of inkjet printing for textile fabrics, the study of the effects of process variables...

.../methodology/approach In this study, five factors (concentration of thickener, concentration of urea, concentration of alkali, pH of pretreatment liquor and steaming duration) were investigated using a blocked 2⁵⁻¹ fractional factorial experiment. The type of thickeners [polyacrylic acid...