Color Fastness Tester Compliant with the ISO 105 Series Standards
Colour fastness refers to a textile's ability to resist fading or discolouration when subjected to various external factors during processing, use, or storage, such as friction, washing, light exposure, or perspiration. Products with poor colour fastness are prone to colour loss or transfer onto other items, compromising appearance and quality. Such issues may even pose potential health risks due to dye migration.
ISO 105 Series: Textile Colour Fastness Standards
Compliance testing to the ISO 105 series constitutes the international standard for assessing textile colour fastness performance. These tests evaluate a textile's colour retention capability under diverse environmental conditions. Such assessments are crucial for ensuring colour stability during washing, friction, light exposure, perspiration and similar conditions, directly impacting product quality, durability and consumer satisfaction.
What makes ISO 105 particularly valuable is its granular approach to colorfastness evaluation. Each subsection isolates specific environmental challenges:
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B-series: Light and weathering resistance
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C-series: Washing and laundering resilience
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E-series: Water and perspiration resistance
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X-series: Various mechanical factors (rubbing, etc.)
Colour fastness tester according to ISO 105 series
Principle
Colour fastness is an important demand and refers to the resistance of colour to fade or bleed of a dyed or printed textile materials to various types of influences including water, light, rubbing, washing, perspiration, etc. to which they are normally exposed during textile manufacturing and in daily use.
Standard test methods: a few examples
Colour fastness to light
ISO 105-B01:2014 specifies a method intended for determining the resistance of the colour of textiles of all kinds and in all forms to the action of daylight.
ISO 105-B02:2013 specifies a method intended for determining the effect on the colour of textiles of all kinds and in all forms to the action of an artificial light source representative of natural daylight (D65). The method is also applicable to white (bleached or optically brightened) textiles.
This machine apply to light color fastness, anti-climate color fastness, light & perspiration color fastness and light aging tests of textile, paint, dye, coating, rubber, plastic, wood floor, paper and other materials, it have anti-climate functions of exposing to the rain, revolution and mist spraying.
Standards:
GB/T 8427, GB/T 8430, GB/T 14576, GB/T 15102, GB/T 15104, ISO 105-B02/B04, ISO 12040, ISO 11341,
ATCC TM 16, AATCC 169, ASTM D5010, ASTM D4303,1, JIS L0843, M&S C09/C09A
Colour fastness to laundering
ISO 105-C06:2010 specifies methods intended for determining the resistance of the colour of textiles of all kinds and in all forms to domestic or commercial laundering procedures used for normal household articles using a reference detergent. Industrial and hospital articles may be subjected to special laundering procedures which may be more severe in some aspects. The colour loss and staining resulting from desorption and/or abrasive action in one single (S) test closely approximates to one commercial or domestic laundering. The results of one multiple (M) test may in some cases be approximated by the results of up to five domestic or commercial launderings at temperatures not exceeding 70 °C. The M tests are more severe than the S tests because of an increase in mechanical action.
This Washing Fastness Tester apply to test dyeing textile color fastness changing degree after washing, it not only do washing color fastness and also dry washing color fastness test.
Standards:
ISO105-C01, C02, C03, C04, C05, C06, C08, C09, C10, D01, E03, E12
GB/T 5711, GB/T3921-1 to 5, GB/T12490 ; AATCC 3, 61, 62, 86, 132, 151, 190
JIS L0860, JIS L0844, JIS L0879; M&S C4A, C5, C37, P3B; BS 1006 NEXT 2,3,5
IWSTM 7,115,177,193, 240, 241; FTMS 191 Method 5610/5622
Colour fastness to human perspiration and saliva
ISO 105-E04:2013 specifies a method for determining the resistance of the colour of textiles of all kinds and in all forms to the action of human perspiration.
ISO 20701 | IUF 427:2017 specifies a method for determining the colour fastness to saliva of all kinds of leathers, independent of the colouring procedure applied. The method uses an artificial saliva solution to simulate whether colouring materials can migrate from leather to the mouth or to the mucous membranes.
Perspiration Tester GT-D09 apply for testing perspiration resistance color fastness of all kinds of textile materials & dyeing, colorful textile and test for their perspiration resistance, waterproof, seawater resistance, saliva resistance, chlorine bleach resistance, etamsylate resistance and other performance.
Perspiration
GB/ T 3922, AATCC 15, ISO105-E04, JIS L 0848, ISO 11641
Sea Water
GB/ T5714, ISO105-E02, AATCC107
Water
GB/ T5713, ISO105 E01, AATCC106
Saliva
GB/ T 18886
Colour fastness to rubbing
ISO 105-X12:2016 specifies a method for determining the resistance of the colour of textiles of all kinds, including textile floor coverings and other pile fabrics, to rubbing off and staining other materials. The method is applicable to textiles made from all kinds of fibres in the form of yarn or fabric, including textile floor coverings, whether dyed or printed. Two tests may be made, one with a dry rubbing cloth and one with a wet rubbing cloth.
Crockmeter Rubber Fastness Tester is used to determine the colour fastness of textiles to dry or wet rubbing. A pinned acrylic sample holder ensures rapid sample mounting and repeatability of results.
AATCC Crockmeter Standards:
BS 1006-D02, ISO 105-X12/D02, M&S C8, AATCC 8/165, ASTM D6279, JIS L 0849 Type1,JIS L 0862 Type1
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