![]() ![]() ![]() With over 20 Screen Printing Presses and a capacity to fulfill any size order, we love to work on orders from 10 to 10,000 - whether you are organizing a small family reunion or putting on a large running event. Screen Printing is where we started and still comprises the majority of what we do. Knowing when to acquire such a printer may offer your company a significant strategic advantage over your competitors.Click Here to See Our Stock Print Colors For Customers Large and Small.Screen Printing is the Cornerstone of UGP! It would be a good idea for t-shirt printing companies to keep a close eye on the current and future advances of Direct to Garment machines. We expect over the next few years for Direct to Garment printing to overtake Silkscreen printing in terms of production, efficiency, color and consistency. As consistency enables confidence in your process and allows you to print large quantity orders with minimal supervision and defects.ĭirect To Garment printing offers the best long-term benefits in terms of consistency because the process is computer driven and has less moving parts.Īt this time Silkscreen printing still offer better consistency as its methods have been tried and tested for over one-half century.ĭTG printing still has to catch up to do as this method is still advancing leaps and bounds and the years of refinement are lacking. But it will take some time before DTG printing offers the same variations in colors as Silk Screen printing.Ĭonsistency is the backbone of every large scale printshop. Currently, several major players such as Epson, M&R, and Kornit have allocated resources to expand the range of colors available to DTG printers.Ĭurrently, several major players such as Epson, M&R, and Kornit have allocated resources to expand the range of colors available to DTG printers. Fortunately, most of the variety of colors and shades that were available for artists are also available for commercial silkscreen printers.Īt this time DTG printing does not have the same gambit of colors as silkscreen printing. Silkscreen printing has always been the favourite printing method for many artists such as Andy Warhol and Peter Blake because the technique offers a rainbow of vivid colors and shades. Presently, several printing machine companies are working to automate the pre-treatment process to shorten dwell times. DTG printing requires a longer dwell time before it can apply additional coats of ink to a garment. Presently, DTG printing requires a longer time for wet-on-wet applications. There is still one major hurdle that needs to be addressed before DTG printing fully establishes itself as the dominant method for printing t-shirts.Īt this time, DTG printing still has a few substantial setbacks in terms of t-shirt pre-treatment, and dwell time. While it appears that Direct To Garment printing is ready to take over Silkscreen printing as the number one method to print t-shirts. The new DTG printers also offer substantial savings in ink costs, and setup time in addition to their increased operating capacity. Several DTG printer manufacturing companies such as Kornit Digital, OmniPrint Intl., Aeoon, and M&R are offering multi-platen (multiple head) DTG printers that enable each printer to scale its output.īy adding just one additional print-head the new DTG printers are effectively doubling it is output by 100%. Lower acquisition costs have allowed t-shirt printing companies to acquire several single print DTG printers which they set up in pods for mass production cycles. Recent advances in computer aided technologies and garment printing are now challenging silkscreen printing for them in terms of productivity, quality, and cost-effectiveness. ![]() Until today, no other printing process that came close to the productivity and efficiency level of silkscreen printing.Īs an honourable mention, we will state that Heat Transfer printing was a very distant second place in terms of printing efficiency and productivity. It is amazing to watch how efficient it is to print hundreds of brightly colored, highly detailed t-shirts using the silkscreen process. Over the years, people have industrialized the silkscreen process for mass production, by re-engineered many of the touchpoints and bottlenecks associated with printing large scale orders. Silkscreen’s effectiveness in producing high quality, low-cost, printed t-shirts in volume has always been a primary reason why the silkscreen printing method is currently used to produce over 80% of all printed t-shirts. ![]()
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