Foil Printing on Fabric

Foil Printing on Fabric

Are you interested in polishing up your custom garment designs?  By that I mean, have you ever thought about incorporating foil printing on fabric?  Foil printing is a guaranteed way to make your designs sparkle like they never have before!  It’s a quick way to transform a simple design into a spectacular design.  Where can you go to get custom foil printing on fabric?  That’s easy because you’re already where you need to be!  AMBRO Manufacturing is a contract apparel customization company with over 30 years in business so we have tons of useful garment decoration services for you to explore, including foil printing on fabric of course.

Foil Printing on Fabric

So how does foil printing work?  The foil used in foil screen printing comes as a sheet so you can’t just print the design as you would with an ink.  Instead, what we do is print a special adhesive ink wherever the foil would show up in the design.  After the adhesive is applied, we then take a foil sheet and cover the adhesive completely.  With a quick heat pressing the foil will bind to the adhesive (and only the adhesive) so that when you pull the sheet away your design will be coated in beautiful foil.

Foil comes in every color of the rainbow, but that’s not even the end of it!  You can get all kinds of special effects foils that have different reflective finishes and interesting patterns or prints.  You can do your designs completely in foil or you can chose specific elements in your design to highlight with foil accents.  So if you are interested in custom foil printing on fabric and you would like to place an order with us, or if you would like to find out more about our company and services, you can contact us by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

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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.