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.

Screen Printing Clothing

Screen Printing Clothing

Are you creative and you want to find a new way to bring your art to life?  If you’ve been stuck on a piece of paper for too long and you need to try a new medium, you should try screen printing clothing.  You can let the whole world see your creativity while at the same time turn a profit.  It’s remarkably easy to have your own custom screen printing clothing.  At AMBRO Manufacturing, we would love to be the ones to help you embark on a new custom clothing adventure.

Screen Printing Clothing

If you aren’t very familiar with screen printing, it’s not difficult to grasp.  The process gets its name from the silk mesh screens that are used to distribute the ink onto the garment.  Each part of the design that is of the same color is etched into its own silk screen that is covered with an emulsion.  The emulsion does not let any ink pass through the screen so wherever the design is, the emulsion is removed.  The screens are then loaded onto the printing press and positioned over the blank garments.  Colored inks are squeegeed across the screens, one color at a time, until the final image is completed.  The printed garment is then put through a dryer to set the ink and just like that, you have your own custom screen printing clothing!

Our team here at AMBRO Manufacturing is standing by, ready to help you on your next customization project.  We have a multitude of other customization services to offer you like, sublimation, foil printing, embroidery, vinyl, and more.  So come make us your one stop shop for all your apparel customization needs.  You can contact us to place an order for screen printing clothing, or to find out more about our services and facility, by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

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