Is discharge screen printing the right choice?

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PeterPromo

Discussion Starter · May 18, 2012 (Edited)

Hi there,
we have a small workshop for fashion accessories in Thailand where we do mostly leather stuff that we sell online.

That's why I would like to produce the first batch of T-shirts (60 pieces / design, 5 designs overall) in Thailand as well (because we have guys who do the distribution / shipping there).

So far a lot of the printing companies we visited had pretty average / bad print quality.

We found some shirts now that are printed via discharge screen printing and I love the results (because they are soft and our shirts should look a bit like old / washed out t-shirts too, without the layer of ink on top of the shirt).

I have attached an example of what kind of design we want to print. Do you think this could work out with discharge screen printing?

The company says yes but we got burned by printing companies before who promised us a lot and delivered crap.

If you have any recommendations what to look out for (what kind of meshes / colors) please let me know.

I would also be interested in other fulfillment services who do worldwide shipping and could print this for us, in case we can't find anything in Thailand that fits.

Price is not that important but quality is!

Thank you,
Peter

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AtkinsonConsult

· #2 · May 18, 2012

PeterPromo:

You could do these discharge, but why? Are you printing on dark shirts? Just print with regular ink and use some fashion soft base or chino base through higher mesh and it will come out great.

60 shirts isn't a big order, but this art isn't that difficult.

Discharge can be a pain, as the ink is only good for a short period before it's useless. Also, if you go discharge on a dark, just handle the underbase that way and the rest of the colors can be regular plastisol.

Remember "Ink Don't Think" - it's all the mechanics of printing. If you printer doesn't understand this, then the results could be a bit shaky.

I'd offer to help, but you are a half a planet away from Milwaukee.

Good luck,

-M

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BroJames

· #3 · May 18, 2012

PeterPromo said:
Hi there,
we have a small workshop for fashion accessories in Thailand where we do mostly leather stuff that we sell online.

That's why I would like to produce the first batch of T-shirts (60 pieces / design, 5 designs overall) in Thailand as well (because we have guys who do the distribution / shipping there).

So far a lot of the printing companies we visited had pretty average / bad print quality.

We found some shirts now that are printed via discharge screen printing and I love the results (because they are soft and our shirts should look a bit like old / washed out t-shirts too, without the layer of ink on top of the shirt).

I have attached an example of what kind of design we want to print. Do you think this could work out with discharge screen printing?

The company says yes but we got burned by printing companies before who promised us a lot and delivered crap.

If you have any recommendations what to look out for (what kind of meshes / colors) please let me know.

I would also be interested in other fulfillment services who do worldwide shipping and could print this for us, in case we can't find anything in Thailand that fits.

Price is not that important but quality is!

Thank you,
Peter

Ask them for some of their previous prints. I regularly sell shirts printed in Thailand and some prints are not even color separated. For example the letters "A" & "B" having the same width and height. The entire "B" is printed right on top of the letter "A" and the shirt.

You'd want a company that prints with 230 mesh count or higher. may shirts we sold (from Thailand) have rather coarse prints. Seems like 110-120 mesh screens.

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PeterPromo

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 19, 2012 (Edited)

Thank you! Excellent suggestions.

We will just use white shirts, probably from uniqlo because they are pretty awesome in my opinion and easily available.

I heard that higher meshes like 230 don't play well with discharge screen printing?

Another printing guy in Thailand said we could try water based inks... no idea. It just got to be soft and feel like a high quality shirt.

*Edit: We found a good company. Thanks guys!

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