Overview
Screen printed apparel are the highest quality products you can offer your customers. With the ability to print up to 12 colors and various effects, your designs will be translated to your apparel via our separation process with vibrant clarity and resolution.
Create durable products that last - wash after wash. Select from our standard print locations or tell us what you have in mind. If you can imagine it, chances are we can print it. Add high-end effects and embellishments to further customize your designs.
Techniques
Spot Color: The most common type of printing for basic designs and logos with solid fill areas is called spot color screen printing. D2 Productions can print a maximum of 12 colors on our large automatic presses.
Spot Color with Half Tones: Similar to spot color but incorporating gradients of those colors to give depth to a design, yet not as complicated as a full color process design.
4 Color Process: Photographic reproduction on white or light garments is done using CYMK, or four color process screen printing.
Simulated Process: Photographic reproduction on colored or dark garments is done using simulated process screen printing. This is the most difficult and costly type of screen printing and uses up to 8-10 screens per design, but produces spectacular results.
Direct-to-Garment (DTG): The most eco-friendly garment decorating method, DTG offers an unlimited number of colors per print location at a low cost point for smaller run orders. DTG utilizes a water-based ink system to provide a soft-hand feel. Requires no screens or set up and works fine with rasterized images of at least 300dpi. DTG is limited to the uses on white or light colored garments. We cannot print an ink color that is lighter than the shirt color being used. DTG printed garments can be as durable as screen printed garments.
Inks
Plastisol: Super durable and looks great on any color garment. Formulated to achieve superior opacity and color matching accuracy, plastisol inks are the most commonly used inks for garment imaging. Made of PVC with an oil base for flow and viscosity.
Discharge: Discharge is an activator which is added to a water-based ink and, when printed, removes the garment’s color dye. Usually, this will result in a natural tobacco-like color. If tinted with a color resin, the discharge will remove and replace the garment's original color in a one-step process. Resulting color varies according to the original dye of the fabric. All discharge inks are printed on a select range of 100% cotton garments. Use this process if you want the softest possible option for black garments and want to print a design with softer edges and less detail.
Water Based: Water-based inks produce ultra soft prints and are the most eco-friendly inks available. Water-based inks are used by organizations with a desire to maintain a green profile and fashion-oriented companies looking for a soft-to-the-hand feel. With the consistency of water and a translucent base, designing for these inks should be reserved for minimal detail and color printed on an organic fabric. Truly an ink for those looking to print green.
Production Equipment
Kiwo I-Jet direct-to-screen imaging system. Your artwork is sent directly from the art file to the screen. This enables us to provide a higher quality image on the screen. It is more efficient and more accurate than the traditional film process. The I-Jet eliminates the cost and headaches of film.
Newman Roller Master Stretching & Retensioning table. Screen tension is probably the single most important component of quality printing. All screens will stretch and lose tension over time. Low tension screens cannot produce crisp edges and lines. By constantly insuring that our screens are properly tensioned, the highest quality output is created. Helps are production department keep are screens and mesh in tip-top shape which translates to cleaner quality imprints.
Newman Roller Frames. Known as the industry leader in re-tensionable screens. Each screen frame is checked for proper tension before every production run. We utilize the highest quality screens in the business which provide us more flexibility and quality control in our production facility.
M & R Presses: Long know as a leader in the printing industry. Accurate, reliable and fast! Made in the USA. Features such as independent squeegee speed, servo drive, electric drive print heads and the patented Revolver system produce spectacular results run after run. |
