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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Foil Printing Services

Foil Printing Services

Biologically speaking, the human eye is drawn to flashing light.  As humans, our brains evolved to notice flashing light as way to alert us to things in our environment worth noticing.  It helps keep us safe because it snaps us out of what we were doing to make us aware of something important.  This exact reason is why hazard lights flash and why blinking lights announce the opening of big events.  Knowing all this means that as a designer, you can capitalize on our human nature to bring attention to your artwork.  If you are a custom garment decorator, you can use foil printing services to jazz up your designs and have heads turning to see your pieces.

Foil Printing Services

You cannot deny the appeal of a top quality, custom foil printed garment.  It just oozes luxury because of the shiny metallic design.  You can opt for the classic colors like silver or gold foil, but there are other options too.  You can pick from a number of different color foils in the rainbow, or even pick rainbow foil if you want them all!  At AMBRO Manufacturing, we can offer you our foil printing services for your custom garments.  The process is quite similar to regular screen printing; the foil is applied to an adhesive layer of ink that gets screen printed as though it were a regular ink.  The garment is heat pressed with the foil so that the adhesive binds to the foil and then it is peeled off.  Wherever the adhesive was printed will now be covered in shimmering foil.

With our foil printing services you can choose to go for an only foil design or a mixture of screen printing and foil printing.  Whatever works best for your custom foil printing job, we’re happy to assist you.  You can contact us to place an order, or for additional information, by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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