Printing properties of a high substituted guar gum and its mixture with alginate

Highly substituted guar gum can be used in the printing of cotton with bifunctional reactive dyes as an alternative to alginate. In this work, a bifunctional reactive dye and blends of substituted guar gum and alginate were used. The rheological, technological and colorimetric parameters of the mixed printing pastes were studied and compared with those of alginate printing pastes.