Let’s face it, screen printing costs can add up rather quickly. With so many factors adding to the final price, it can make it difficult to make sure you are receiving the lowest price for your order. Here is a list of insider tips to help reduce screen printing costs before submitting your order. Utilizing … Read more
Helpful Tips to Speed up Any Custom Apparel Order Between submitting a custom apparel order and shipping out the final garments, there are many factors that can affect when you or your customer will receive their order. While a company’s standard turnaround time is based on in-house factors such as setup, art time and production … Read more
Glow-in-the-Dark Ink Glow-in-the-dark ink is a translucent ink that absorbs direct sunlight, allowing the then charged phosphors in the ink to release its energy causing the image to glow. This ink is best utilized as an overprint for lighter-colored images because of the slight greenish tint it adds to the color it is printed over. … Read more
Raster Images What is a Raster file? Raster images are created from pixels, which are small colored squares that make up the image. This means that as you increase the size of the image, it will eventually become blocky (pixelated), or appear to be blurred. Common Raster File Formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png Pros of Raster Images: Even … Read more
Garment Material While most digitizers will create an embroidery image that can be edited, it is important to note that different fabric types also determine how an embroidered image will turn out. Generally, the stretchier the fabric is, or looser the weave of material is, the harder it is to embroider. This is due to … Read more
Dye migration is completely unavoidable, but very controllable. This quick reference guide will help you dodge this unwanted process as much as possible, providing your customers with the crisp, clean shirt that you printed. What is Dye Migration? Dye migration, also known as dye sublimation or bleeding, is an unwanted process that occurs between your … Read more
Determining the perfect color combination for a screen printing order goes a lot deeper than just finding a few colors that match each other. While this is important and will be expanded upon in this post, colors can and will evoke emotional responses from the audience. In addition, the colors will be one of the … Read more
