Here in the Paddock we use a process called Digital Garment Printing. We have what looks like an inkjet printer on steroids. The shirts, hair ties, pillowcases, (anything flat) go into the printer on a big arm called a platen. Ink is applied directly into the fabric, much as an ink jet printer applies ink directly to the printed page. This allows the ink to become a part of the fabric. In the screen printing process, the ink is applied to the top of the fabric and sits "up" on the fabric.
One benefit of our printing process is that the design will never "crack" or peel off. It is actually in the fabric. The downside is that we can not print light colors on dark fabrics. Because the ink is down in the fabric, it would not be seen if you printed (for example) pink onto black. We need to use a darker color ink than fabric!
A second benefit is that we are not limited to a certain number of colors. Just as an inkjet printer does, we can print 100s of colors at once and can print any design or picture that you can think of! As long as it's in a digital file with a decent resolution, we can usually make it work! Printing on sleeves is also available!!
Thanks y'all and happy Labor Day weekend! God Bless America!!
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