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.

Specialty Screen Printing and High End Prints

Specialty Screen Printing and High End Prints

So you’ve got your own custom garment business started and you’ve mastered standard screen prints on your clothing, what’s the next step?  In the fashion industry, if you stand still, you’re going to be left behind, so you must always seek to improve and discover new things to add to your inventory.  With specialty screen printing and high end prints you can really dazzle customers with images and designs that they haven’t seen before!

Specialty Screen Printing and High End Prints

What exactly is specialty screen printing and high end prints?  Well, to understand that, let us first define what standard screen printing is.  In screen printing, custom artwork is separated into layers of color and then burned into a waterproof emulsion on a silk screen.  Each color gets its own screen and they are put onto a printing press where you can load the blank garments on.  The screens come down over the garment and you can then drag colored ink over the screen with a squeegee which will deposit a thin layer of ink onto the fabric through the exposed areas on the screen.  After each color is applied the final image is realized and a quick pass through a dryer sets the print.

Specialty screen printing and high end prints are modified methods of screen printing that require some kind of special resource, equipment, or application to achieve the desired effect.  One example is oversized screen printing.  The process is similar but it requires much larger presses, screens and squeegees, which not every printing company has!  If you are in need of specialty screen printing and high end prints, you can come to us at AMBRO Manufacturing because we have a tremendous amount of customization options to offer you!  We have oversized screen printing, foil printing, scented printing, printing with water based and discharge inks, dye sublimation printing, transfer printing, and so much more!  If you would like to place an order, or if you would like to find out more about AMBRO Manufacturing, you can contact us by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

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