You are all welcome to our Open House which we are holding Thursday 11th – Friday 12th April. On the Thursday we will be open from 10am until the later time of 7pm. Then Friday 10am – 4pm.
Screen printing involves pushing ink onto the fabric through a stencil, while Direct to Garment (DTG) is a modernised method of printing that uses a printer to apply the ink directly to the t-shirt.
We’ve had quite a lot of lovely Sun recently, however it’s still a bit chilly overnight and there has been a frost in some parts. Printers must be aware of the potential that emulsion can freeze it stored incorrectly. Emulsions that have gone off if they have one of the following characteristics; It gells into […]
SQUARE EDGE the most common squeegees, and are mainly used for textile printing and on manual presses. ROUND EDGE generally used in the textile industry, when a heavy ink deposit is required. BEVELED EDGE (“V”SHAPE) are typically used for printing rounded surfaces where high definition is required, also used on high-speed automatic machines.
If screens are taken care of properly, they can last forever! Especially true of retensionable screens as you will be able to retension them and tighten them as necessary, making them as good as new! The more prints you do it will gradually loosen the mesh, however we are talking about prints in the thousands […]
Off-contact is the gap between the bottom of the screen and the substrate (the item being printed). The purpose is to improve printability during screen printing process. Please note that the off-contact is not the distance between the screen and pallet! It’s the distance between the screen and the garment, because the thickness of the […]
Yellow mesh absorbs more light compared to white mesh, and stops light scattering, therefore helping expose intricate details. You will normally find yellow mesh on mesh counts of 90t onwards, as these are the screens you use for finer detailed prints. Yellow mesh can also be known as dyed mesh. Yellow mesh takes slightly longer […]
