Discharge Prints

Discharge Prints

Have you heard about garments customized with discharge prints?  I’m sure you’ve probably heard about screen printing, or at the very least, you’ve seen it on custom clothing before, so you’re not too far off.  Many screen printed garments are printed using plastisol inks, but there are more options than just plastisol inks!  Let’s take discharge prints for example:  Discharge ink is a type of water based ink that has different properties than plastisol ink which gives you different printing results.

Discharge Prints

The biggest difference between the inks is the use of a solvent.  Plastisol inks are easy to reuse over and over again because they lack a solvent which prevents them from drying up when exposed to air.  The trade-off for easy storage and reuse is that plastisol inks tend to dry stiff and heavy which won’t work for every garment.  Water based ink printing doesn’t have to worry about that because the inks contain a solvent that allows you to print softer.  Of course, when working with a solvent you have a time limit on the ink before it expires so printing with them can be a bit trickier.

Discharge prints take water based inks a step further because a special discharge agent can be mixed into the pigmented ink so as to allow you to remove the existing color from the garment while depositing the desired color in its place.  Since you don’t even need to print an underbase layer the resulting print will be ultra soft, as though the print has always been a part of the fabric!  So if you are interested in trying out custom discharge prints, you should come to AMBRO Manufacturing where we can provide you with all of that and more.  You can easily contact us to place your order, or to find out more about our company and services, by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

Custom Foil Printing

Custom Foil Printing

If you’ve been doing custom screen printing for a while, it can get a little monotonous.  There are ways to spice up your designs by thinking outside the box.  Let’s take custom foil printing for example.  Custom foil printing isn’t too much different than typical screen printing, so you won’t need to learn anything new to be able to add a touch of shine to your designs.  The main difference is that instead of printing an ink color, a clear adhesive ink is used instead.  You can then heat press a custom foil sheet to the adhesive so that when you peel it away, only your artwork is left foiled!

Custom Foil Printing

Custom foil printing is an instant upgrade to a blank garment because it looks expensive.  Some of the finest things in the world come polished and shiny, so foil evokes that sense of luxury at a fraction of the cost for the real thing.  Here at AMBRO Manufacturing we can even do mixed media printing that pairs classic screen printing alongside custom foil accents to create truly intriguing designs.  Of course, if you really want to sparkle, you can just do the whole design in foil!

Now if you’re only imagining gold or silver foil prints, you’re missing out on the big picture.  Foil can come in all colors of the rainbow as well as custom patterns or special effects like holographic and prismatic too.  There are so many gleaming options that you’ll probably find it hard to settle on just one!  So if you’re all revved up to try out your own custom foil printing, we at AMBRO Manufacturing are ready to help you achieve that goal.  You can contact us to place your order, or to find out more about our company and all of our customization services available, by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

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