Foil Printing

Foil Printing

Just when you think you’ve seen it all from screen printing, think again!  Screen printing has been around for a while now and as most industries do, it has seen a lot of innovations.  There are many formulations of dyes that can achieve different results and work on different fabrics.  You can print standard size prints or with the right company, you can do oversized printing on large pieces of fabrics.  There are so many ways to make custom printing even more unique than just using regular inks.  One of these ways is with foil printing.

Foil Printing

Foil printing is a super flashy way to bring a lot of punch to your print.  With colored foils you can add brilliant color and texture to a design.  You will be simply entranced by the shine of a foil printed garment.  The most popular foils of course would be gold and silver, but there is a plethora of foil colors available.  You can even get a rainbow foil print if you can’t decide which color you want!  Your custom garments will look more expensive than ever when they have foil printing.  The process for foil printing is simple really.  Like in traditional screen printing, a silk screen has a design etched into an emulsion of where the foils print should be applied.  Instead of a colored ink, a layer of adhesive is applied to the garment in the shape of the foil design.  A sheet of foil is then laid onto the adhesive and heat is applied to the print.  The foil only binds to the garment where the adhesive was placed and the rest is peeled away.

Foil printing can really send your custom garment projects into the stratosphere.  Your designs will be immediately eye-catching and people will want to sparkle in your clothes.  At AMBRO Manufacturing, we can do your foil printing.  If you are interested in placing an order, or if you have additional questions, you can contact us by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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Direct To Garment Printing

Direct To Garment Printing

Direct to garment printing also known as Digital printing or DTG is a great way to print small orders with multiple colors and save some money. Direct to garment printing works by printing on a garment using a modified or specialized inkjet technology. The direct to garment printing machine is just like your basic inkjet desktop printer that you use to print on paper. The direct to garment printing machine is driven by RIP also known as Raster Image Processor. The RIP program allows you to print using much larger volumes of ink for your image being printed.

Direct To Garment Printing

In order to get the best quality print with direct to garment printing it is recommended for the items to be 100% cotton or a cotton blend. When doing direct to garment printing on dark colors the garments must be pretreated before printing them or the image will not show up clear at all. The direct to garment printing has a transport mechanism for the garments that uses specialty inks to apply to the garments directly and is absorbed by the cotton fibers in the garment.

With direct to garment printing you can have a minimum order of just one shirt and the direct to garment images look much better then vinyl which would be another way you could have a minimum of 1 item. But with the direct to garment you can have fun with the images. Maybe your mom’s 60th birthday is coming up and you want to have a shirt made for her with an image of you and her when you were younger, you can do all that with digital printing but you cannot do that with vinyl. You can also have words printed with direct to garment printing and they will look way cooler than vinyl would.

So look into getting some direct to garment printing done!  You can reach us by calling (908) 806-8337 or email.

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