{"id":5763,"date":"2020-09-18T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.maudlinclothing.com\/direct-printing-on-white-clothes-with-or-without-treatment\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:36:25","slug":"direct-printing-on-white-clothes-with-or-without-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.maudlinclothing.com\/en\/direct-printing-on-white-clothes-with-or-without-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct printing on white clothes – with or without treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Direct textile printing has a number of funny peculiarities that can have a huge influence on the final result of your T-shirt printing job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talking a little about direct printing itself, and at the risk of repeating something we’ve already said several times, it’s a printing method that will work much better on 100 per cent cotton items.<\/a> If we use garments with lycra or polyester we will cause unnecessary problems and the quality of the work you receive will reduce considerably.<\/p>\n\n

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Direct printing on dark backgrounds<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

When we print on garments that are red, blue, black, green or any colour other than white, we are forced to use white ink underneath the print. A kind of first coat, like when you’re painting a wall. Only after this primer can we print the colour of your logo (it works a bit like screen printing). Now, this white paint will only stick to the garment if we apply a pre-treatment. This pre-treatment is a liquid that will “bind” the white paint to the garment.<\/p>\n\n

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As we use water-based inks, this is a necessary and obligatory process on T-shirts of any colour, otherwise the ink will disappear into the garment and your logo will no longer be visible.<\/p>\n\n

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Direct printing on light backgrounds<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

On white or light t-shirts (beige, for example), this treatment is not compulsory and in most cases we don’t even apply it, since we’re printing directly on white.<\/p>\n\n

However, not applying treatment or printing white on white has its disadvantages. Being water-based paints, they tend to “seep” into the fabric and the colour ends up “dying” \/ fading a little.<\/p>\n\n

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How do we solve this problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

It is also enough to apply a treatment, followed by white ink (primer) before printing the other colours.<\/p>\n\n

Now, this isn’t a mandatory process as you can print the colour directly onto the garment, but when you have an image with very vivid colours, it’s definitely a great option to consider.<\/p>\n\n

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Advantages of treatment on light backgrounds<\/em><\/p>\n\n