Custom Foil Printing on T-shirts and Hoodies

Custom Foil Printing on T-shirts and Hoodies

Have you heard of foil printing before?  If not, it is a fascinating way to decorate your own personalized garments.  There are tons of ways to apply your designs and countless garments to choose from, but one of the more popular options is custom foil printing on T-shirts and hoodies.  These garments feature large enough printing areas to really maximize your shine!  You can have custom foil printing done for any business need or personal celebration.

Custom Foil Printing on T-shirts and Hoodies

If you are a custom garment decorator, you will flock to a foil print that calls out from the clothing rack, and rest assured that with foil, your designs will be seen.  You can choose a little bit of foil for an accent to your prints or you can opt for a completely foil design!  Whatever suits your needs, we here at AMBRO Manufacturing would love to make it happen for you. We are an apparel customization company with nearly 30 years of experience behind us, so we know what we’re doing.  We have tons of foil colors to select from and we can even provide you with specialty foils that have prints and prismatic effects.  We also can offer you a ‘mixed media’ print where we apply screen printing alongside your foil prints.

Custom foil printing on T-shirts and hoodies is almost the same process as traditional screen printing, but with one key difference.  The foil part of the design will be screen printed with an adhesive, instead of a colored ink.  After the adhesive layer is applied, a foil sheet is heat pressed to the adhesive and the excess is peeled away to reveal the design in foil!  So if you are interested in custom foil printing, you can contact us to place an order, or to find out more about, by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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Water Based Screen Printing

Water Based Screen Printing

What works for some people, may not work for other; that is just a reality of the world we live in.  Because of this, we are in world filled with options.  People are always trying to come up with new ways to ‘skin a cat’ so that it works best for them.  In the custom garment printing world, this type of innovation has given us water based screen printing.  Water based screen printing is an alternative way of screen printing your custom garments that comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Water Based Screen Printing

Originally screen printing was done using plastisol inks, which are petroleum based.  Plastisol is great for keeping costs down because they are reusable as long as you properly maintain them.  They won’t dry up in the screens because there is virtually no solvent in them.  The problem with plastisol is that for some customers, the feel of the ink on the garment known as the ‘hand’, is too firm.  For designs that are all over coverage or that have multiple colors, plastisol ink can feel quite heavy and stiff.  Water based screen printing is perfect for those who are looking for a soft, ‘barely there’ feeling print.

Water based inks are susceptible to drying out and as such, are mixed for the amount needed for the job.  Since the inks aren’t reusable, water based screen printing is generally more expensive than printing with plastisol.  At AMBRO Manufacturing, you can have the best of both worlds as we offer screen printing with both plastisol and water based inks.  We also are capable of water based discharge printing too, so don’t forget to ask us about that!  If you are interested in placing an order, or if you would like to find out more about water based printing, you can contact us by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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