Custom Foil Printing

Custom Foil Printing

If you’ve been doing custom screen printing for a while, it can get a little monotonous.  There are ways to spice up your designs by thinking outside the box.  Let’s take custom foil printing for example.  Custom foil printing isn’t too much different than typical screen printing, so you won’t need to learn anything new to be able to add a touch of shine to your designs.  The main difference is that instead of printing an ink color, a clear adhesive ink is used instead.  You can then heat press a custom foil sheet to the adhesive so that when you peel it away, only your artwork is left foiled!

Custom Foil Printing

Custom foil printing is an instant upgrade to a blank garment because it looks expensive.  Some of the finest things in the world come polished and shiny, so foil evokes that sense of luxury at a fraction of the cost for the real thing.  Here at AMBRO Manufacturing we can even do mixed media printing that pairs classic screen printing alongside custom foil accents to create truly intriguing designs.  Of course, if you really want to sparkle, you can just do the whole design in foil!

Now if you’re only imagining gold or silver foil prints, you’re missing out on the big picture.  Foil can come in all colors of the rainbow as well as custom patterns or special effects like holographic and prismatic too.  There are so many gleaming options that you’ll probably find it hard to settle on just one!  So if you’re all revved up to try out your own custom foil printing, we at AMBRO Manufacturing are ready to help you achieve that goal.  You can contact us to place your order, or to find out more about our company and all of our customization services available, by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

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Water Based Screen Printing Techniques

Water Based Screen Printing Techniques

How much do you know about your custom screen printing?  Do you know that there are different types of inks?  Depending on the kind of fabric you are printing on and the kind of design you’d like to see on the garment there could be different techniques that need to be employed to produce the desired result.  Let’s take water based screen printing techniques for example.  Water based inks are a type of ink that contains a solvent, which is typically water, that evaporates leaving the pigment behind.

Water Based Screen Printing Techniques

You can use water based inks to print directly onto the garment, but that’s not all you can do.  One of the water based screen printing techniques that is very popular is to use a discharge agent in your water based ink.  By adding a discharge agent to the ink, you can actually remove the existing color from a garment!  In screen printing you need a layer of white under any colors that you want to pop on colored shirts which translates to more ink that needs to be on the shirt.  With discharge inks you can forgo the white base layer because the discharge agent will return the shirt to its undyed, natural color while depositing the desired color on top.

Discharge printing sounds too good to be true, but it really works!  So if you are interested in exploring water based screen printing techniques and how they can impact your custom designs, why don’t you check us out at AMBRO Manufacturing?  AMBRO Manufacturing is a contract apparel customization company so we have many different kinds of garment decoration services for you to take advantage of!  You can easily contact us to place an order, or to find out more about our company and all of the services we have to offer, by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

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