It is more than apparent that garment designers are working late nights designing new styles with new fabric finishes to serve and expand their client bases. The combinations of fabric content, treatments, finishes and dyeing techniques are seemingly endless and create opportunities for you to upsell your customer on more fashionable apparel. And once they fall in love with these unique garments, it will result in repeat orders.
In this installment of the Impressions Tech Tips Newsletter, we will review the optimum printing techniques for embellishing the new suede fabric from Next Level Apparel (style 6410).
In Part 1 of this series, step-by-step techniques were listed for everything from press setup to preparing pallets and applying pallet adhesive. In Part 2, we'll start with emulsion practices and sufficient coverage on screens.
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From the moment I enrolled in my high school printing class as a freshman to the time I printed my first shirt, I’ve been hooked on screen printing.
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One of the top complaints I have heard in my career is that textile inks, whites in particular, are not opaque enough.
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