While there are several methods of producing customised and branded items, screen printing offers the ability to produce large designs for a competitive price. Its innate scope to yield a colourful and finely detailed finished product makes it seem like the only option you’d ever need.

Is screen printing right for you?

Screen printing is not ideal for every project. More complex designs with a greater number of colours affect the cost-effectiveness of screen printing, especially for smaller orders. Further, screen printing was traditionally used on garments that do not have a great life expectancy. As such, it is more for single-event promotional clothing than it is for day-to-day staff uniforms.

As with all types of printing, your supplied design artwork must be submitted in a vector-based format, as this will not pixellate when it is expanded.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how screen printing suits your job. 

Ever wondered how those logos and designs get printed on pens, USB sticks, mugs, pieces of sporting equipment and electronics?  All those angles and complex shapes, all covered so neatly?

The answer is pad printing (sometimes called tampography). Pad printing is all around us and is one of the most popular printing methods to get logos, words and design flourishes onto stock items. It uses a rubber or silicone pad that can transfer a design from a precision-etched plate onto almost any product.

Is pad printing what you’ve been looking for?

This is probably the most versatile approach out there and yields brilliant results on odd or curved shapes. Even better, it’s fast! Large print runs can be produced in a short period of time. It can even do multiple colours at once. However, pad printing is not suited for large designs or styles that include glitter effects.

As with all types of printing, your supplied design artwork for pad printing must be submitted in a vector-based format, as this will not pixellate when it is expanded.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how pad printing can suit your job.

Have you been looking for a way to personalise your merchandise with a deluxe level of finish and quality? There are many options out there, but the high-tech and high-precision of laser engraving really stands out. The technique works by focusing powerful computer-controlled lasers on the surface of the material to be engraved. Depending on the power of the laser and the toughness of the material, a controlled amount of the surface layer melts and is vaporised. It simply vanishes, leaving a neat engraving mark. As it is entirely automated and only uses electricity and light, laser engraving can be done very quickly to flawlessly reproduce designs from digital files.

Laser engraving for precision and quality

Laser engraving is most popular on hard surfaces like metal, crystal and glass. It surprises many to find out it can also deliver great results on paper, wood, ceramic and plastic. There is even laser-engraved clothing! So many materials can be engraved simply and neatly with laser. However, due to the high energies and temperatures involved, some synthetic materials - such as flame-retardant coatings, epoxy, PVB and teflon - are usually unsuitable. Laser engraving is also one of the most environmentally safe ways to decorate or brand your items. There is no chemical residue and virtually no material debris.  Machine engraving still achieves excellent effects, yet laser goes one further by being completely non-contact - the only thing touching the material is light itself.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how laser engraving can give your merchandise outstanding results. 

Looking to do a short run of a complicated or detailed design on fabric? If so, digital transfers might be the right choice for you. The trasnfer is first printed onto a substrate and this is then transferred to the textile as required. This two step-process means the same design can be printed onto the inexpensive substrate, stored and then printed to the merchandise on-demand. However, there are certain types of fabric where digital transfer is not applicable - contact us for more advice.

Digital transfer gives you the options you want!

Digital transfers are an exciting and dynamic approach to textile decoration. From CAD-cut numbers and names to full-colour corporate or sporting logs to digital photos, digital transfers are one of your most cost-effective alternatives to traditional screen printing. They can even take the place of embroidery in certain applications. Recent improvements in ink and media technology make this technique one of the fastest-growing products in today's garment and promotional products market.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how digital transfers can suit your job. 

Want to get amazing corporate uniforms, team kits, promotional clothing and fabric banners? Not sure that screen printing or embroidery can give you the result you want at the right format? Sublimation might be the answer.

Sublimation printing is a method of transferring a design or image onto cloth and fabric. However, the design is not so much printed on top of the fabric, as in screen printing, but is infused into the fibres themselves. That’s where the sublimation part comes in. Through applying high heat, the ink in the design to be printed “sublimates” from solid to gas instantly. This dye gas then momentarily penetrates the fabric fibres before converting back to a solid as it cools.

Sublimation for bright, clean and clear results in fabric

Sublimation enables almost any design and colour to be produced. This process is great for sporting apparels such as:

• Footy gear
• Cricket tops
• Netball singlets
• Soccer tops

However wild your team colours are, sublimation printing can do it. It can also produce simple and subtle effects too. Whatever you need, this technique is great if you have a lot of colours and a lot of logos. The main advantage of sublimation printing over screen printing is its suitability for short print runs (though minimum orders apply) and capacity to easily reproduce fully photographic imagery. Further, it’s designs are more durable. As they become part of the fabric, they do not crack, fade or peel. Further, sublimation printing has a negligible effect on the qualities of the fabric. If the original fabric is soft, light and breathable, it’ll stay that way - even when entirely covered with your design.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how the unique benefits of sublimation printing can give your apparel and merchandise colourful results. 

Are you looking for the best way to get a short run of custom shirts, apparel or promotional fabric merchandise made? Are you looking for a technique that can reproduce a design in full colour, no matter how intricate or finely detailed it is? Direct to garment printing, a revolution in the printed apparel industry, might be your answer: it’s fast, simple, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and creates far less waste byproducts than traditional screen printing.

The idea is simple, it’s right in the name: direct to garment. It’s an inkjet technique that gets around the usual step of using a transfer to move a pre-printed design onto the item. Essentially, imagine instead that you could feed a blank t-shirt through your office printer and get a stunning design out the other end. Technically, it’s much harder to do than it sounds. From concept to commercial reality took around 35 years of development for the special printer heads required.

Direct to garment printing for when you want easy results

With far lower set-up costs than traditional screen printing, direct to garment is ideal for small runs - think one-off events or limited edition clothing. Further, the number of colours you use has little bearing on price. Even better, the scalable nature of the process means that, unlike screen printing, your design can be matched to the size of the shirt. Your extra-smalls won’t have the edges of your logo disappearing under seams and the your extra-larges won’t strand the design in a field of plain blank fabric. However, there are things to remember. Direct to garment printing is slower than other approaches and it uses more delicate inks. As such, it is not ideal for large orders or printing on fabric less than 50% cotton.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how direct to garment printing can make your business, event or team really stand out. 

Have you been looking for just the right design for your corporate uniform, yet not finding anything that suits? Looking for something that matches your new concept for promotional clothing but only seeing the same old stuff? Simply looking to stand out? Getting the branded clothing and headwear that truly makes a mark might mean getting it custom made. With Perth Stitchings it’s easier and cheaper than it sounds.

Making custom clothing easier

From a simple polo shirt right through to entire uniforms for sporting teams, Perth Stitchings is your answer. We have a huge range of customisable patterns on file for you to choose from. There are the usual options on the detailing as a well as more involved alterations. These include:

• Fabric choices and mixtures
• Fit, size and hem length
• Buttons, closure and fastenings.

Of course, Perth Stitchings is an expert in designing, printing, embroidering and applying any branding you want to include. We will step you through all options to get the results for your brand needs that your business deserves.

Call Perth Stitchings today to get the custom clothing solution for your specific needs. 

Have you been looking for a fast and economical way to print on pretty much anything? Want to get the same design on multiple items?  UV LED printing offers an answer.

Using special light-sensitive inks, this printing technique leverages the unique advantages of LED technology. LEDs, which are totally different from conventional light bulbs, create instant intense light without heat. Your design just flashes onto the material. As they require no heat to work, it means that, unlike other commercial printing equipment, UV LED printers do not have the usual time-consuming warm-up procedures. Along with this time saving, the special inks used in UV LED set instantly.

Instant start-up and drying allows the printer itself to operate faster. It’s an efficiency of production that saves both on power costs and business costs - and those savings are passed on to you.

UV LED inks dry instantly

Instant drying means multiple layers of different inks can be rapidly applied. How many layers? Easily enough to build up embossed or textured effects - even to create braille!
While UV LED printing is typically best for putting designs onto hard surfaces - such as plastic, coated paper, metal, ceramic or wood - it can also be used on fabrics, such as silk. Instant drying means the inks do not soak into the fabric and blur. As uncoated paper is also slightly (or considerably) absorbent, the no-soak-in benefit of UV LED printing also gives unparallelled sharpness and quality for these applications too.

Perth’s UV LED print leaders

At Perth Stitchings, we love the unique benefits the UV LED printing gives our clients. One of the most exciting new printing technologies, it gives results that are sharper, bright and faster on the widest range of materials. Sure, efficiency saves you time and money, but the lower power use and non-toxic nature of the process is better for the environment too.
It’s solutions like these that are why we have so many repeat customers.

Call Perth Stitchings today to find out how UV LED printing can make your business, event or team really stand out.