Plastisol
Plastisol ink is your most common ink used in screen printing. Plastisol will be covered more thorough below due to the fact in can be printed oversized, as a spot color and up to eight colors.

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Spot Color
Many companies out there have a specific color they use for there logos and branding. A PMS color is a world-wide known method of making a specific color consistent. We offer up to an eight PMS print. If you would like to learn more about PMS colors or how it plays a role in screen printing please send all your questions here.

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Discharge
Discharge Printing is also called Extract Printing. This is a method of applying a design to dyed fabric by printing a color-destroying agent, such as chlorine or hydrosulfite, to bleach out a white or light pattern on the darker coloured ground. In color-discharge printing, a dye impervious to the bleaching agent is combined with it, producing a colored design instead of white on the dyed ground. Discharge printing has been around for decades. But only in the past 7-8 years screen printers in the industry have recognized it seriously. In the early years of discharge printing, the finished discharge print needed to be steamed during the drying process. This discouraged the use of discharge systems in the finished garment arena. The newly developed discharge ink systems are chemically reactive and dont need to be steam-neutralized. This advancement opened the door to discharge printing for the average screen printer. Discharge printing has the ability to make bright, opaque colors on dark fabrics with a soft hand. Years ago the idea of opaque colors on dark fabrics and soft hand couldnt co-exist. Successful light-on-dark printing with plastisol relies on increased pigment loads, fillers and other additives to block out the color of the garment. Discharge inks modify the garment color by removing the garment color and replacing it with the new ink color. In simple terms, the discharge ink "bleaches" out the dye in the garment, thus allowing the pigment in the ink to absorb into the shirt fibers. The real magic of discharge printing can be witnessed when printing four-color process on black 100% cotton shirts. The print before curing appears very transparent. One can barely see the print until the garment exits the oven chamber, where the results can be quite remarkable: bright, vivid colors with a soft hand.

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Oversized
Oversized printing doesn't really need to much of an explanation. We can print eight colors up to
21.5w by 20h.

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Waterbased
Water based prints have many positive qualities. The industry term "hand" refers to how soft a print feels on the decorated item. Water based inks are well known for the minimal or soft hand that they provide. Prints made with water based can be ironed, while plastisol prints cannot be, as the iron's heat plate would melt the PVC in the ink. The colors in a water based print are often more vibrant than those in a similar plastisol print. When properly cured, a shirt or other item with a water based print will survive countless trips through the washing machine, being very durable, and the ink would most likely outlast the fabric on which it is printed. Because of the lesser hand of water based, a shirt with a very large and solid design printed on the front will feel light and thin, while sometimes large heavy plastisol printed designs are referred to as "bulletproof" because of the thickness of the layers of ink. Water based ink sits into the fabric of the printed shirt, not on top of the fabric like plastisol printing. This allows skin under the design to breathe better, and can increase the amount of comfort felt while wearing the decorated item.

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Four Color Process
We can represent every color of the spectrum fairly reasonable with a method called four color process. What happens is we brake the image down to its cyan, magenta, yellow and black base. From those four we can mix and create any color imaginable. Since you are actually printing tiny dots these four base colors mix in your eye to create the desired "photo" effect. The problem with four color process is that is has to be printed on a white garment.