Discharge Screen Printing

In the custom apparel world, you will find that your designs won’t always work with the ‘standard’ ways of printing.  That’s understandable because not every design is ‘standard’ and neither are the garments you choose to print on.  So the industry ‘standard’ for screen printing, that is, with plastisol inks, might not work for you.  As an example, let’s imagine printing a large logo on a flowy, lightweight blouse.  If you print using plastisol inks, microscopic solid pigments, you will find that once the print is cured and dried that it is stiff and not very breathable.  On a lightweight garment it will be weighed down and lose the natural airiness, which would defeat the purpose of that garment.  A garment like that would benefit from discharge screen printing.

Discharge Screen Printing

Discharge screen printing is a type of water based ink printing that has an added discharge agent in the mixture.  The discharge agent is responsible from removing pre-existing color from a garment so that you can replace it with the color of your choice.  Screen printing with water based inks doesn’t share the same disadvantages that plastisol inks carry.  Water based ink printing leaves a soft ‘hand’ on the garment which is perfect for lightweight materials.  You can run your hand across the print and you will barely feel a thing, that’s how soft these prints are.

At AMBRO Manufacturing we can take care of your custom discharge screen printing jobs.  We are a custom screen printing, sublimation and embroidery company based in Flemington, NJ and we’ve been in business for 30 years so you can count on our quality.  So get started today! If you are interested in getting discharge screen printing, or you want to find out more, you can contact us by email or by calling us at (908) 806-8337.

Discharge Screen Printing