Front of the screen printing of clothing embroidered clothing

Front of the screen printing of clothing embroidered clothing

When you have to choose between two processes in this case "screen printing" or "edge" can be very difficult so I hope the following information will help.

Screen printing and embroidery are used primarily for promotional clothing to choose the best process to market your business is a very important decision. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but choose to have a big impact on potential customers.

The process of screen printing

There are many factors when screen printing, artwork, screens and machines of their shirts are printed on. First we have to produce artwork that is created in Adobe Illustrator and is known as a vector, this is printed on a plate that is exposed in the light table. The screens are made up of many types of meshes of 43, which allows a deposit and heavy ink to a 120 which puts a minimum deposit of ink down to the finest designs details, the emulsion is placed in these nets and following the film placed on top. These are subjected to the exposure unit to expose. The blocks of the film to light that allows the emulsion surrounding the healing, while the covered area breaks down, the screen is rinsed and ready to print.

Depending on the design of this process can be to 1.12 times to produce screens for individual work for the creation of a job can take a long time. The displays are rotated around the machine so automatic, while the sequence of the squeegee strip of ink through the screen to deposit the ink on the shirt. All colors are made by wet on wet unless they have dark shirts, when using a flash cure unit to dry the base before proceeding to the next color. Once all the colors have been completed shirt are removed and placed through the dryer and there you have a t-shirt printed.

The embroidery process

Business consists of two processes in the first place you need your design digitized using the embroidery software (Wilcom) that coverts the artwork in a format that machines can recognize and replicate the design in stitches in his clothes, once completed this can be loaded into an embroidery machine (SWF) ready for sewing.

The time required to process the design can take 10 minutes to run, most manufacturers of machines with eight heads that allows the production of multiple races.

The machine has a starting point for where the designer has located it depends on how you created the image, most images are produced in the layers and work backward depending on the type of garment. Each element is sewn your specific color that has taken the industry standard (Madeira), discussions with a maximum of 12 colors each.

Although we have discussed the processes have not talked about the advantages and disadvantages of screen printing and embroidery.

The biggest advantage is the speed between print, screen, while it has a lot of stages to produce the screen after completing the process is minimal with companies that produce about 20,000 shirts a day. embroidered fall the scanning, most designs are small but when you have a complex design that can take hours to scan and when complete only up of 8 designs can be produced at the same time.

Ultimate capacity is an important issue as screen printing is the option when compared with transfers digital, but when it comes to embroidery this wins hands down. Screen printing is produced using inks so after time and ink washes start to deteriorate, this is much slower than the transfer, but faster than the embroidery yarn discolor. Embroidery is the perfect choice for business use, They can be washed at high temperatures and various times.

Profitability is the most important issue for most people as the application of these technical clothing is not cheap. Most of the cost is reduced to the design, if you have a left breast a little drawing of color to be about the same cost, if you look at the other end of the scale and design is great, with multiple colors, the screens are very expensive and the program may have thousands of stitches. These two basically level, but the print settings can cost £ 240 and embroidery programs around £ 120 +.

My personal opinion on this issue is that the screen printing achieves greater efficiency for clothes promotion when it comes to selling a product and corporate apparel embroidered suits, but in general both have their advantages and disadvantages.

If you want some more information on these two types of processes, why not visit www.screenworks.co.uk that are competitively priced and offer many other services.

About the Author

Screenworks Ltd is where I’m currently employed; we are the UK’s most professional screen printing and embroidery company. Our high capacity trade screen printing and embroidery production facility is more than capable of outputting upwards of 20,000 items every day. I have worked for the company over 7 years now, I’m always learning new techniques to use within my role but believe there is alot more to offer.

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