Discharge printing uses color-destroying agents like chlorine or hydrosulfite to bleach out a white or light pattern on dark cloth, producing a colored design. It is a fabric printing method where the material is dyed and then certain areas are discharged to allow the original hue or a replacement color to show as a pattern against the colored background.

2. Discharge / Extract Printing – uses color-destroying
agents on a design , such as
chlorine or hydrosulfite to bleach out a
white or light pattern von the dark cloth.
This produces a colored design.

3. A fabric-printing method in witch the
material is dyed and then certain areas
are discharge so as to permit the original
hue or its color replacement to act as a
pattern against the coloured ground..