The advantages of direct to garment printing
- The best part about direct to garment printing is that they are easily accesible to small-business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.
- These printers are pretty small in size and you can place them almost anywhere. Also, you don’t need to have a special room or a separate printing room for this.
- The setup process is fairly simple and easy to understand. You don’t need to have a wealth of knowledge for this.
- Provides one of a kind graphic results. Some may even say the best. But that would be an over-statement.
The dis-advantages of direct to garment printing
- You must always have to printing on a high-quality cotton-based texture so that the inks are adjusted properly on the surface.
- Any of the fabric which you to print contains white ink, you should always treat in hand with a branded pre-treatment liquid. The process pre-treating your T-shirt allows the white color to absorb on the fabric easily and connect well with your T-shirt. Without the said process, your white ink will not hold onto the fabric and drain down after the printing process.
- If by any chance you apply a large chunk of pre-treatment on your fabric you have to wash down the colors and start the process from the scratch. If by any chance you apply less pre-treatment on your fabric, your white color will not hold onto the fabric and drain down completely.
- When you are imprinting on dull or low-quality cheapest T-shirts, it generally prints a white-colored ink first and then the said shading on the top of the color. This two-colored layer process normally takes three to five minutes per print which is far better than the time involves in printing T-shirts on screen printing.
Screen printing – The oldest printing method
Screen printing, then again, is as old as soil! Not exactly yet nearly! You may be astonished that the screen print process has been dated as far back as 960-1279 AD. This print strategy was utilized in China around the hour of the Song Dynasty. Screen printing advanced toward the western world during the eighteenth century however didn’t become as well known in Europe until silk work effectively open. Let us time travel to the here and now where today we have screen printing especially dialed in with photograph receptive synthetic concoctions and hardware to make the procedure a lot simpler.
With screen printing, 1 screen must be made per shading inside the realistic to be printed. So you’ll see that screen printers will in general base evaluating dependent on what number of hues are inside the picture. On the off chance that you have a lot of shading inside your realistic, this could more than likely drive up the expense essentially. Since with screen printing plastisol ink is the fundamental sort of ink utilized, you can anticipate that the life of the print should truly come way, decades even! The quality typically has a surface to it that you can feel, and outwardly the quality is truly positive. Overall quite strong!
While screen printing is a manual procedure of a squeegee pulling ink across work screen of negative space, nowadays, there are programmed squeezes that will do a large portion of the work for you, which is a screen printer’s fantasy! Anyway one would at present need to set up the shirts and make/set up the screens which do take some time. After screen arrangement, you’re prepared to shake and print without any problem.
Advantages of screen printing
- A time tested procedure
- Strong quality print that will keep going quite a while
- You can print 1 shading print exceptionally quick
- Different kinds of plastisol ink can be utilized (shine, puff and metallic ink)
Disadvantages of screen printing
- 1 shading for every screen, different hues will bring about more significant expense
- Longer set up a period
- Muddled cleanup
- Heaps of costly hardware required
- You should figure out how to utilize the entirety of the hardware
- You need a great deal of room for the entirety of the gear