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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Waterbased Screen Printing

Waterbased Screen Printing

Do you enjoy custom screen printing?  How do you feel about the ‘feel’ of your prints?  If you like ultra soft printing and you’ve only been printing with plastisol inks in the past, there’s a whole new world for you to discover!  Waterbased screen printing is just the customization service you want for super soft screen printing!  Where can you go to find custom waterbased screen printing services?  That’s easy because you’ve already found us here at AMBRO Manufacturing!

Waterbased Screen Printing

AMBRO Manufacturing is a contract apparel customization company with over 30 years in the business so we offer many different garment decoration services.  Most printing companies work with plastisol inks because they are easier to work with, cost less, and can be reclaimed after a job is complete.  With all those positives, why do people still want waterbased inks?  Waterbased inks contain a solvent, unlike plastisol inks, so they are thinner and penetrate deeper into the fabric.  Due to the nature of the ink, the resulting prints are much softer than plastisol prints and this is very desirable to most consumers.  If you are doing all over printing, waterbased inks are especially favorable because they won’t weigh you down even with all over coverage.

Waterbased screen printing is a bit trickier than printing with plastisol inks because you can’t leave them exposed to the air too long because they’ll dry up in the screen and you won’t be able to reclaim any excess ink for future use.  Of course, that’s not your problem to worry about, it’s ours!  So if you are interested in placing an order for custom waterbased screen printing, or if you would like to learn more about our company and our services, you can easily contact us by email or by giving us a call at (908) 806-8337.

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