Hybrid garment printing, where analogue and digital worlds collide

Hybrid textile printing is a recent development that utilises both screen, and digital inkjet technology to print garments with bright colours, amazing detail, minimal pre-press, and very fast time to press.

The first down colour, usually white, is screen printed in the traditional fashion usually using either water-based, or a high solids acrylic (HSA) ink. The colours are then deposited via digital inkjet.

Conventional DTG systems print well on nearly any fabric, as long as it’s cotton. This is largely a result of a lack of bleed resistance, elasticity, and poor adhesion to many synthetic substrates by the white ink layer. By utilising a screen printed white, we can print hybrid embellishments on any material that can be screen printed.

Some of the benefits of hybrid printing are:

• Great for medium to large print runs
• Fast time to press
• Unlimited image colours
• Prints on virtually any screen printable garment
• Eliminates need for pre-treatment
• Much lower per-unit consumable cost than DTG
• Minimal art/ pre-press preparation
• Ability to add specialty inks, and colours to digital prints

Combining screen printing and DTG printing truly is, the best of both worlds.

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