WHAT IS SCREEN PRINTING?

If you’re new here or recently joined a team where you’re responsible for sourcing shirts, hats or any type of apparel for your agency or organization, you’ve come to the right place. The team at the Embroidery Factory are considered the experts in the field of contract and wholesale embroidery and screen printing with over a 100 years of experience combined.

So are you wondering how to navigate this world? When to place an order for screen printed shirts vs. embroidery? We’re here to help. Below is a quick reference guide that may help but if you run into any questions or if we can help you with an upcoming order, don’t hesitate to give us a shout at orders@embroideritl.com. Prefer to speak to a human? We don’t blame you. Here’s our number, 570.654.7640.

What is screen printing?
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink using a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. This causes the ink to wet the substrate and be pulled out of the mesh apertures as the screen springs back after the blade has passed. One color is printed at a time, so several screens can be used to produce a multicoloured image or design.

What is wholesale screen printing?
Since the 1960’s, sports teams and corporations across the United States have created partnerships with screen printers to brand their clothing, uniforms and in modern times, even masks. If you’re a franchisor and are looking to control your image throughout several hundred franchisees or are a pharmacy or hospital that has a standard uniform that you abide by, then screen printing is an affordable option to keep costs down while still managing brand standards at a corporate level.

What is contract screen printing?
Contract screen printing is a term that’s often used in the agency world. In our world, this means that we work with a third party, Whether it’s an ad agency or a promotional firm to complete a project on the behalf of one of their clients. The majority of agencies in today’s society simply do not have the capability to produce large orders in-house so they use a third-party recourse to facilitate the client’s request. We’re the silent partner or factory who does the work but we never interact with the client themselves. In this instance, the agency contact is our client.

We look forward to supporting your custom needs.

Until then,

RJ
Co-owner, Embroidery Factory

Sources: Wikipedia