Water based and discharge screen printing is the way to achieve a soft print that feels like it is part of the fabric. We can reproduce your complex multi-colored graphics, print various shades of water based metallic ink, and print over seams and off of the bottom of the shirt. This ink type works best on 100% cotton fabric.
Discharge Printing is amazing. These chemists managed to figure out a way for us screen printers to print a biodegradable and safe mixture on most any color cotton shirt and deactivate the shirt dye which turns it back to the original cotton color it was before it was ever dyed. Discharge ink only works on cotton. It doesn’t work on polyester fabric or rayon, at least not well enough for us to guarantee the results. And as you might expect, a general rule of thumb is the nicer the shirt, the nicer the cotton which mean the brighter end result of the discharge. Lucky for you we took a lot of the guess work out of it and rated all of our shirts by dischargeability (That’s probably not an actual word… yet.)
Metallic ink is an awesome way to make any print stand out. We can make any ink shimmer and shine with our specialized metallic process. The best part is our metallic is super soft like all the rest of our waterbased ink.
Polyester is a result of making an affordable nylon alternative. Polyester fabric can be difficult sometimes due to dye migration. That’s where the ink they use to dye the garments bleeds into the screen printing ink we print on the shirts. We’ve learned how to print polyester efficiently and error free. We can get the smoothest softest prints that stay the color they’re supposed to without any dye migration.
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