Screen Printing

Screen printing or silk screening is a printing technique particularly suited for flat or relatively flat surfaces. The heart of the process involves a fine mesh or screen that is tightly stretched around a rigid frame. The areas that are not to be printed are masked out on the screen. To create the print, the framed screen is positioned over the item to be printed along with a dollop of thick ink. A squeegee is then used to press the ink through the screen. The masked areas prevent ink from passing through, but the unmasked areas allow the ink to be imprinted on the material. This heated curing process ensures that the inks dry quickly so that they materials can be stacked or packaged. Properly cured inks will remain on the printed substrate even under harsh conditions and will wear well even after numerous washes.

Let us at Advertees develop your ideas, come up with a suitable design and deliver your finished product to exacting standards.

Embroidery

Embroidery is the process whereby a customer gets a digitised design sewn onto garments. When we expanded our screen printing facility to include embroidering, we enabled our customers put their branding on a much wider range of garments.

Garments that heretofore did not allow us to screen print images onto, like fleeces, jackets, sports bags, towels or caps can now be embroidered with relative ease. Corporate's, Sports Clubs Charities and other organizations have now a much wider scope for advertising.

We have two state-of-the-art fully automated embroidery machines that enable us to recreate logos with up to 15 different colours.

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Transfers

The vast majority of Advertees’ printing is produced by screen printing but now and then certain jobs are better suited to using the “Transfer Printing” method which evolves heat pressing vinyl type materials onto the product.

“When to use Transfer Printing”

• One-Off names and numbers
• Small run full colour images for birthdays\gifts
• Promotional photo shoots where you just need a very small number of items
• Multi coloured images for nylons or water resistant items
• Certain sports clothing which cannot withstand the heat associated with the curing process of screen printing

Unlike screen printing where the inks used are cured and slightly absorbed into the garment, transfer printing inks rest on the top of the fabric. The durability of transfer printing may not be as robust as screen printing, but advances in its technology over the years has brought on huge improvements. Transfers are fully washable and colour fast to 40 degrees in all popular materials.