Ciba-Geigy Corporation

Ciba-Geigy Ag

Gerhard Kogel

Andres Schaub

Roberto Degen

Walter Mundwiler

Described is a process for the tone-in-tone printing and pad-dyeing of textile material made from fibre mixtures of synthetic and natural material with at least one disperse dye with the use of solvents having swelling properties, which process comprises printing or impregnating the textile material with a printing paste or padding liquor in which one or more disperse dyes have been produced by reaction of coupling components with diazo components; subsequently subjecting the printing or the dyeing, after intermediate drying, to a heat treatment and finally to the finishing process. There are obtained in the case of many disperse dyes when they are produced in the printing paste or padding liquor by the process of the invention better fixings on the natural constituent of the mixed fibres than when the same dyes are firstly produced and then added in the finely-dispersed form to the printing paste or padding liquor.

Process for the tone-in-tone printing and pad-dyeing of textile material

Described is a process for the printing and pad-dyeing of mixed fabric made from fiber mixtures consisting of material consisting of materials dyeable with disperse dyestuffs and materials dyeable with reactive dyestuffs, especially polyesters/cotton, by the use of printing pastes or padding liquors containing at least one disperse dyestuff of the azo series and at least one reactive dyestuff, wherein there is used a printing paste or padding liquor in which the disperse dyestuff is formed in the printing paste or padding liquor. There are obtained by this process printing or dyeings which have some advantages over the prior art. The staining of the cellulose constituent can more easily be washed out and only a slight staining of white ground occurs.

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Reinach, Switzerland

Gerhard Kogel