Growing interest in water based screen printing.
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.

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) .

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.

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