What is Discharge Printing

What is Discharge Printing

As there become more and more screen printers around, the ideas and inventions keep broadening. Printing is not the basic one color prints anymore; it has grown to multiple colors as well as new inks and things that you can do with them. Now, instead of always using ink that is thick, there are thinner inks, as well as water based inks. A technique called discharge is one of those water based inks that has become popular amongst consumers.

What is Discharge Printing

What is discharge printing you ask? Pull up a chair, sit back, and let me take you on a journey of how discharge prints are created. Discharge printing is when an ink agent gets mixed into the ink, and when applied to the shirt it will remove the dye of the shirt. Almost as if you accidently bleached a dark shirt it will turn lighter where the bleach hit was. Discharge printing lets you do a vintage “bleach out” method or you can add color to the ink. Overall the print is going to have a soft look that will still be vibrant but not as bright as using plastisol ink would have.

The next time you get a discharged printed shirt; all your friends will wonder where you got it and what it is. Since you would have it, you can tell them all about what is discharge printing and how simple it is to get a shirt like that from AMBRO Manufacturing.

AMBRO Manufacturing is the best place you can come to, to find out more about what is discharge printing. It is only a few steps away that you can get your own discharge printed shirt. You can give us a call any time at (908) 806 8337 or email us and we will get back to you with anything you may need to know about what is discharge printing.

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How to Make Full Print Shirts

How to Make Full Print Shirts

If you are looking to start designing shirts that feature an all over print, it would be very helpful to understand how to make full print shirts first!  Shirts with a full print on them aren’t as simple to apply as a small chest or back logo.  To better understand why that is, let’s talk about the process of screen printing and how to make full print shirts. 

How to Make Full Print Shirts

In a nutshell, screen printing is a method of applying colored inks to a garment by using a silk screen mesh with a design etched into it.  If you want artwork that is large enough to cover the whole shirt, you won’t be able to use standard size screens because the design simply won’t fit!  So to compensate for the larger artwork, you will need custom large format silk screens to fit the artwork onto, but then you’ll need a printing press that can handle the oversized screens.  As you can see, it’s not as easy as just enlarging the artwork!  Not every printing company is capable or willing to go out of their way to provide oversize screen printing services for full print shirts, but we are at AMBRO Manufacturing.

Our company, AMBRO Manufacturing, has been in this business of custom garment decoration for over 30 years now, so we’ve amassed a wide spectrum of customization services that we can offer our clients.  Best of all, you don’t have to do it alone!  Since we know how to make full print shirts look great, you can work with our team to finalize your designs and they will be able to provide you with guidance and answer any questions you might have.  If you’re ready to place an order, or if you would like to speak with someone on our team, you can contact us by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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