What’s NEWDINE?
When screen printing, the material to be printed must be secured to the table. This is called fabric setting. The older methods of fabric setting include Pinning, Gumming or Wax-treatment.
Gumming is a method of fabric setting using water soluble thickener; starch, natural gum or PVA are suitable thickeners. Pinning is a method of holding the fabric down on the table with pins. The wax treatment employs paraffin mixed with oil and coated on the table. More recently, however, a method similar to this is universally practiced, but the fabric setting agent is a synthetic resin which maintains a permanent adhesive power. Although similar in principle to the wax treatment, it has advantage over it; namely, it is economical in labor and adhesive substance because it is permanent. Also with regard to technique and high grade printing it has a superior adhesive power which makes it especially suitable for synthetic fiber printing. Yokohama Polymer Co„ Ltd., has over eighteen years experience developing such a material and also the techniques for its most efficient application and high grade printing effects. And from 1957 we have been producing and also marketing various types of this permanent table adhesive.
It’s trade name is NEWDENE, and is now being used throughout the textile printing world.
This website, we hope, will assist printers in how to use Newdine and also impart our experience in producing high grade printing effects. We sincerely trust that our product and knowledge can be a use to you.