Custom Foil Printing on T-shirts and Hoodies

Custom Foil Printing on T-shirts and Hoodies

Have you heard of foil printing before?  If not, it is a fascinating way to decorate your own personalized garments.  There are tons of ways to apply your designs and countless garments to choose from, but one of the more popular options is custom foil printing on T-shirts and hoodies.  These garments feature large enough printing areas to really maximize your shine!  You can have custom foil printing done for any business need or personal celebration.

Custom Foil Printing on T-shirts and Hoodies

If you are a custom garment decorator, you will flock to a foil print that calls out from the clothing rack, and rest assured that with foil, your designs will be seen.  You can choose a little bit of foil for an accent to your prints or you can opt for a completely foil design!  Whatever suits your needs, we here at AMBRO Manufacturing would love to make it happen for you. We are an apparel customization company with nearly 30 years of experience behind us, so we know what we’re doing.  We have tons of foil colors to select from and we can even provide you with specialty foils that have prints and prismatic effects.  We also can offer you a ‘mixed media’ print where we apply screen printing alongside your foil prints.

Custom foil printing on T-shirts and hoodies is almost the same process as traditional screen printing, but with one key difference.  The foil part of the design will be screen printed with an adhesive, instead of a colored ink.  After the adhesive layer is applied, a foil sheet is heat pressed to the adhesive and the excess is peeled away to reveal the design in foil!  So if you are interested in custom foil printing, you can contact us to place an order, or to find out more about, by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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Discharge Screen Printing

Discharge Screen Printing

So let’s talk screen printing.  Firstly, what is it?  Screen printing, at a glance, is applying ink to the surface of a garment through silk screens.  The screens have designs etched out in an emulsion that covers the holes in the mesh.  Once all the layers of the design have been applied, the garment can be dried and it is ready to hit the market.  If you’ve been researching around, you might have heard about discharge screen printing.  You may be wondering what that might be and how it is different than other screen printing.

Discharge Screen Printing

Originally, practically all screen printing was done with plastisol inks.  Plastisol inks are made from PVC and contain virtually no solvent, which means that they won’t dry up when left exposed to the air.  They are user-friendly inks that can be re-used over and over again with no degradation in quality.  For some, however, the ‘hand’ that plastisol inks leave behind is unappealing.  Also prints printed with plastisol inks cannot be ironed as it will re-melt the ink.  Luckily, screen printing with plastisol inks isn’t the only option around anymore.  With discharge screen printing, you can get a whole new look for you custom goods.

Discharge screen printing is a method of printing that uses water-based inks to create the image.  The ink is specially formulated to remove the existing color in the garment, the ‘discharge’ step, and then apply a new color in its place.  This method leaves behind a very soft ‘hand’ which many people like for their prints.  If you are interested in having your own custom discharge screen printing projects done, I urge you to come visit us at AMBRO Manufacturing.  You can contact us to place an order, or to find out more about our company and services, by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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