Archive for February, 2009

Discharge Inks

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

It seems the cat is out of the bag with our discharge inks.  We’re printing more and more orders using it everyday.  Discharge ink will remove the shirts existing dye.  Used alone, it will reduce the print to the shirts natural cotton color (usually an off white, tan, or light grey).  We then add water based pigments to the discharge ink to give it some color.  There is almost no feel at all to the prints when they come off the press.  After one wash it feels just like the shirt itself.  Here’s a nice little macro photo.