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What Is an Underbase in Screen Printing?

Print red straight onto black and you get maroon. The underbase is how printers stop the garment eating the colour.

18 October 2025Read article
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Can I Supply My Own Garments for Printing?

The question is not whether a machine can print on your garments. It is who pays when one comes off the press ruined.

16 October 2025Read article
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Why Do Printers Charge a Setup Fee?

The setup fee is not padding. It is the cost of making a physical tool that fits your artwork and nobody else's.

15 October 2025Read article
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What Is the Difference Between DTF and Vinyl?

One prints your artwork; the other cuts a coloured sheet into the shape of it. That single difference decides almost everything else.

14 October 2025Read article
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Print Care Instructions to Give Your Customers

Most print damage happens in the wash, not on the press. Here are clear, ready-to-share care instructions that keep your customers’ printed garments looking new.

8 October 2025Read article
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Can I Put Names on Team Kit? Yes, and Here Is How

Nobody remembers who paid for the kit. Everybody remembers whose name was spelt wrong.

7 October 2025Read article
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Can You Print on Polyester? Yes, But Not With Every Method

Polyester does not reject ink. It refuses to be treated like cotton, and it punishes anyone who tries.

4 October 2025Read article
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How Do I Wash Embroidered Clothing Without Wrecking It?

Embroidery almost never wears out on its own. It gets ironed flat, boiled, or softened into dullness by the people who paid for it.

2 October 2025Read article
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Will My Print Crack in the Wash?

Cracking is almost never bad luck. It is an ink layer that was never fully cured, or a tumble dryer doing what tumble dryers do.

1 October 2025Read article
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Foil and Metallic Printing for Apparel

Nothing turns heads like a clean metallic shine. Here’s how foil and metallic printing work, the difference between them, and how to design and care for them right.

28 September 2025Read article
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Can You Print on Dark Garments?

Printing on black is easy. Getting the same colour to look identical on black and on white is the part that needs a conversation.

26 September 2025Read article
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How Much Does Custom Clothing Cost?

Anyone who quotes you a price for custom clothing without asking four questions first is guessing.

25 September 2025Read article
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How Long Does Custom Clothing Take to Make?

The production clock does not start when you pay. It starts when you approve the proof, and that gap is where most orders lose a week.

22 September 2025Read article
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Single Colour vs Full Colour Designs: Cost and Impact

Adding a colour should change the design, not just the file. Most merch loses more to a muddy four-colour print than it ever gains from the extra inks.

19 September 2025Read article
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How to Choose the Right Print Method for Your Design

Screen print, DTF, embroidery or sublimation? The best method depends on your design, fabric and quantity. Here’s how to match the technique to the job.

15 September 2025Read article
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Sublimation vs DTF for Sportswear: Which Wins Where

Sublimation changes the fabric itself. DTF adds a layer on top of it. Nearly every difference between the two comes from that one distinction.

14 September 2025Read article
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Dark vs Light Garments for Printing: The Real Trade-Off

White ink is the invisible line item on every dark garment, and it changes both what you pay and what your colours end up looking like.

13 September 2025Read article
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In-House Printing vs Outsourcing: When Does Kit Pay Off?

The press is the cheap part. The expensive part is the two hundred blanks you ruin learning to use it, and the fact that you are now the bottleneck.

9 September 2025Read article
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Discharge Printing Explained

Discharge printing doesn’t add ink on top — it removes the shirt’s dye and replaces it. The result is the softest, most vintage feel in screen printing. Here’s how it works.

2 September 2025Read article
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Embroidery vs Screen Printing: Which Should You Choose?

One is priced by colours, the other by stitches. Get that backwards and your quote will surprise you in the worst way.

31 August 2025Read article
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Common Apparel Printing Defects and How to Avoid Them

Cracked prints, faded colours, blurry edges — most print defects have a clear cause and a clear fix. Here’s how to diagnose and prevent the most common ones.

20 August 2025Read article
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Plastisol vs Water-Based Inks: Which to Choose

Both are screen printing inks, but they behave completely differently on the shirt. Here’s an honest, practical comparison to help you pick the right one for your brand.

8 August 2025Read article
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A Complete Guide to Sublimation Printing

Sublimation dyes the fabric itself, so the print never cracks and never adds weight. Here’s how it works, what it can and can’t do, and where it beats every other method.

15 July 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Derry: Buying in Bulk Locally

A city that once shirted half the world now writes software, and both trades left the same lesson about spec sheets and sizing.

15 July 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Bangor, North Wales

Between the Menai Strait and the slate mountains, Bangor kits out people who get wet, cold and abraded for a living. Cotton is rarely the answer.

14 July 2025Read article
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Pantone and Colour Matching for Apparel Printing Explained

Why does your brand red look different on a hoodie than on a business card? Here’s how Pantone, spot colours and fabric all interact — and how to keep colour consistent.

12 July 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Paisley: A Textile Town Guide

Paisley gave its name to one of the most reproduced patterns on earth, which makes it a useful place to explain why some designs cost a fortune to screen print.

12 July 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Dundee: A Local Buyer's Guide

Dundee builds video games and drug-discovery science in the same postcode, and the two order apparel in completely different ways.

8 July 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Hastings and St Leonards

Visitors do not buy your logo. They buy the place, and independents usually learn that the expensive way.

5 July 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Wakefield and the Five Towns

Sublimation is permanent in every sense, which is why rugby league clubs use it and why squad numbers catch them out.

29 June 2025Read article
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Embroidery Digitizing Explained for Apparel Brands

Embroidery isn’t printed — it’s stitched, and the quality lives in the digitizing. Here’s what digitizing actually is, why it matters and how to brief it well.

26 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Oldham and North Manchester

Oldham orders split between manufacturing uniform and community kit, and each has a different failure mode.

23 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Stockport and Greater Manchester

Stockport's independent revival means a lot of small, frequent orders — and small runs reward a different method.

22 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Wigan and Greater Manchester

Wigan's sporting culture and its distribution base produce two steady, very different streams of orders.

15 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Salford and MediaCity

Salford's media cluster orders crew kit on production schedules, which are tighter than almost any other deadline.

14 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Colchester and North Essex

Colchester mixes a large student population with garrison-town services and North Essex trade businesses.

12 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Gloucester and Gloucestershire

Gloucester runs on rugby and engineering, and both order kit that has to last a full season of punishment.

11 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Swindon and Wiltshire

Swindon's mix of engineering, distribution and corporate offices means three different specifications from one town.

9 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Huddersfield and Kirklees

A town built on cloth still knows the difference between a good blank and a cheap one. Specify accordingly.

7 June 2025Read article
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The Screen Printing Process Explained Step by Step

Screen printing still rules custom apparel for a reason. Here’s the full process, stage by stage, so you know exactly what happens between your artwork and a finished garment.

4 June 2025Read article
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How to Prepare Artwork Files for Custom Printing: The Complete Guide

Bad files cause most print delays. Here’s exactly how to set up resolution, vectors, colour modes, fonts and exports so your artwork prints clean the first time.

4 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Exeter and East Devon

Exeter combines a large student population with deep rural Devon, and the two order on completely different clocks.

4 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Ipswich and Suffolk

Ipswich mixes port logistics with deep rural Suffolk, and the two order for quite different conditions.

2 June 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Preston and Lancashire

Preston sits at the centre of a county that still makes things, and that shows in what gets ordered.

30 May 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Oxford: Colleges, Startups and Societies

Oxford orders in a rhythm nowhere else quite shares: eight-week terms, and a hundred societies all ordering at once.

27 May 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Bournemouth and Dorset

A seasonal economy means seasonal ordering, and seasonal ordering fails when it is left until the season starts.

25 May 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Bolton and Greater Manchester

Bolton orders sit between trade workwear and community sport, and the two need opposite specifications.

24 May 2025Read article
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Custom Clothing Printing in Norwich and Norfolk

Norwich has an unusually strong independent scene, and independents order differently to corporates.

22 May 2025Read article