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Growing interest in water based screen printing.

Submitted by on Thursday, 18 February 20102 Comments

Slowly there is a growing awareness to  the advantages of  a water based screen print. Customers are also showing a certain amount of understanding regards its limitations, and prefer to be flexible in their requirements rather than lose the obvious benefits of a soft dyed in the cotton print.

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The more use we make of water-based inks, the more we realise some of the benefits offered from a production point of view. In the first 2 months of 2010 we have seen significant growth in customer enquiries specific to water based inks (and surprisingly further enquiries from fellow screen printers) .

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This is an incredibly positive start to the year, even to leave the environmental benefits out of the equation, screen printing with these products sees added customer satisfaction and a very high rate of return custom. Many of the prominent online T shirt printers have now stated they offer this service, lets hope this continued growth in interest and use of water based inks will lead to faster product development, and availability.

2 Comments »

  • SRIRAM V said:

    would like to know the details of suppliers who can supply quality water base inks for textile printing and formaldehyde free discharge printing ink.

  • Steve (author) said:

    Hi SRIRAM

    You can try Colenso Screen Services

    or

    Textile & Graphics Solutions Ltd

    They are both suppliers of wilflex water based products, NF discharge inks usually require 20kg as minimum orders.

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