How to recognize Pigment and Reactive for flannel fabric?

Flannel fabric is a hot selling product for winter season.

The detail specification catalog for flannel fabric as below:

About cotton flannel, There is pigment printed and reactive printed two kinds methods. But maybe you don’t know it very well, so I will share a small skill here about how to recognize the pigment printed and reactive printed:

1. Pigment printed is the printed method that makes pigment particles adhere to fabric with binder. The advantage of pigment printed is low cost and simple operation. But the disadvantage of pigment printed is color fastness can’t be very good and handle will be hard for dark color designs. Because the finished fabric will be very cheap. CVC pigment printed flannel fabric will be popular in many different countries in Asia and Africa.
2. In Reactive printed process, there is reactive group bonded with fiber molecules, making fiber and dyestuff form a whole. So that the fabric will have good dust-proof performance, high cleanliness, better color fastness and soft hand feeling. The complex process makes reactive printed high cost. So the finished fabric is more expensive than pigment. But because of better quality, for many America and Europe countries, 100% cotton reactive printed flannel fabric is very hot-selling products.

Above is the difference of pigment printed and reactive printed. If you have customer samples in hand, you can see if the handle is soft Or if it fades easily, Then you can initially judge it’s pigment or reactive. Shijiazhuang Tianquan Textile is the real factory for flannel fabric. You can also send us to test the quality for you.