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What printing service is most suitable for your custom apparel?

It can be very difficult to ascertain what type of printing and decorating service will work best for your custom t-shirt and apparel. Whether you are looking for an event, occasion, corporate promotion, fun run or group shirt, we can do it all for you. We have created a guide here to help you figure out what printing service works best for your personalized t-shirts and apparel needs.

Direct-To-Garment (DTG) Printing

Direct-to-Garment as the name implies, entails using an inkjet printer with an all-digital process to print onto a merchandise, tshirt or garment.

Benefits:

  • Images used are full color and high resolution
  • Printing process is really fast – usually within 24 hours
  • Printed product has a soft feel when touched
  • The ink used is eco-friendly as it is water based

Direct-To-Garment (DTG) Printing With White

This printing process starts with using white layer as a primer (on darker colored clothes, or garments), and then colored ink is added on top of the primer layer.

Benefits:

  • This printing process works with most type of apparel colors, including dark colors as well
  • This printing is optimal for 100% cotton products
  • The images printed can be full color and high resolution
  • This offers brilliant color saturation

Embroidery

If you are looking for raised design with decorative stitching using several types of threads and color palette, then you should choose embroidery.

Benefits:

  • Embroidery can be done on cotton, cotton blend, as well as synthetic materials
  • It works for almost all garment colors, which includes dark colors as well
  • This process offers outstanding color saturation
  • If you want a professional look to your products, then this is a terrific choice

Screen Printing

Screen printing requires a sequence of screens to force ink through the fibers of the garment in order to create a design. In order to get desired design with various colors, numerous layers of screen printing are used.

Benefits:

  • This method offers fantastic color saturation
  • It works with most apparel colors, including dark colors
  • You get a vintage, artsy look with screen printing

Ultra Prints

Ultra-prints are remarkably like screen printing. In ultra-printing process, ink is applied onto specialty paper, and then transferred from the paper onto the garment with the use of pressurized heat.

Benefits:

  • It offers terrific color saturation
  • This works well with most garment colors, including dark colors
  • The specialty paper can be reused for printing another order of the same design any time in the future.

Vinyl Application

This process applies a design or pattern onto a garment using vinyl cut by applying pressurized heat.

Benefits:

  • This works for all garment colors, including dark colors
  • This is very durable, particularly for sports uniforms
  • This offers terrific color saturation
  • It is suitable for cotton, cotton blends as well as synthetic materials

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