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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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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