Digital Printing Workshop

Digital Printing Workshop

The digital printing workshop today was really interesting. Although the workshop was short and there was a lot to cover, the concept of digital printing is not to hard to understand. that it is like a normal printer except it prints onto fabric. I can see why digital printing is so popular, it is a process which I think would be interesting to work with, however I feel that I would have add another element to the digital printing instead of just a single print, such as machine stitching. this would add another element to the print and show more of a skill. 

Digital printing is like using a normal printer except it uses dye instead of ink. You still the need to do the steaming and washing process like hand/screen-printing.

A price guide is available on the intranet, payment made via vouchers (available from uni shop)

     Example prices... Cotton £25 per metre, silk £40 per metre.

Best day to hand in designs is Tuesday or Wednesday, and the process takes about 5 days to complete. This must be taken into consideration when thinking about printing digitally.

Ava -this is the program used when digital printing. Take design created on photoshop to Neil and the design will be transferred onto AVA ready for printing.

Scarves...

Dimensions - 150cm length by 60cm width.

Silk habiti £23

Silk twill £30

You can work back into the digital print after the process. It is important that digital printing is the first process onto the fabric though, to get the best results.

SUBLIMATION PRINTING

Another form of digital printing where, using and printer , a design is printed onto paper before being transferred onto fabric using thee heat press.

MAN MADE fabrics only!!

Sublimation printing can also be hand printed for creating printed textures etc. for this direct dyes are used .

For all sublimation prints, heat press for ---- 1min----.