Printing Processes

Embroidery

Embroidery makes the designs more real, luxury on cloth bags which used widely in garment and shoes business. The process of Embroidery allows for artwork to be recreated by decorating fabric or other materials with designs stitched in strands of thread or yarn using a needle - specialist equipment used for mass production. Panton References can be provided, however embroiderers use a different color code based on the threads used, so color are matched as close as possible. It's best to avoid blends of color when creating an embroidery and stick to using solid colors.

Heat Transfer

Transfer printing is a method of applying an image to fabric bags commonly with full printing coverage in packaging lines, which is a substitution that silkscreen printing can't make, but the costs are comparably much higher, which depends on the size of the bags and printing design coverage. Transfer Printing allows for designs to include complete digital images (full colour photography) along with vector and/or high resolution bitmap images, which can then be applied to a number of different products.

Embossing

Embossing is a process that creates an impression of a design onto a surface that allows for marks to remain once the pressure is released, which is making the logos more outstanding and luxury,. Generally, most clients who deal in garments, cosmetics, branded companies will adopt it. There are 2 typical varieties of Embossing: Blind Embossing - The design will remain the color of the product it's being embossed on; Foil Block - Once a design is embossed it's filled with a metallic paint such as gold or silver.

Gravure printing

Gravure printing is a method that successfully make large printed coverage or multiple colors  transferred on plastic film, it's popular among PP woven bags' production for Grocery bags, advertising bags. The plate charges are always high which depends on the sizes of the bags or how many colors printed, but it's very convenient for repeat orders as the plates can stored 1-2 years if they are put in good condition. The artworks needs high resolution images or vector file.

Silkscreen printing

Silkscreen Printing is a printmaking process based on the creation of individual screens for each color present in a piece of artwork, which is adaptive to various different kinds of fabrics, such as PP non-woven,  cotton, nylon/polyester, organza, ribbon, etc. Artwork for Screen Printing ideally needs to consist of vector images and outlined text so that the separation of each color is possible. Each screen made then acts as a layer, with each layer printed in order to build up a complete image.

Offset lithography

offset lithography is a printing technique which is widely used for paper items, such as paper bags, paper boxes, labels, hangtags, etc. Offset Printing allows for full color prints or panton colors to various physical paper surfaces, which enables you to personalize many promotional products, especially for full coverage printing . This method is fast, efficient, cheap but large multiple runs are necessary. High resolution artwork is required for this process (minimum of 300dpi).