Cotton Shopping Bag and Screen Printing

shopping bag and screen printing

Excellent long-lasting advertisement on cotton bags for companies, created with top-quality textile water-based inks.

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The birds have been chirping for quite some time now, telling us to get rid of plastic bags! A cotton shopping bag is an excellent alternative to all single-use bags. It is large enough for grocery shopping, perfect for carrying home-grown produce to a picnic or party. At the same time, it is the best advertisement for a company, providing long-term exposure and brand/company recognition.

The cotton bag is a staple for screen printers. If your customers are not yet aware of the advantages of cotton bags for advertisement, we have prepared some ideas for you. We want to show you how easy printing on cotton bags can be so that you will be even more enthusiastic about offering them to your clients.

Find a good supplier of shopping bags
The first thing you need is a good and reliable supplier of cotton shopping bags. The wide range of quality cotton bags and reasonable prices will convince you at www.gajcom.si.

Prepare your screens
You must prepare the screen for printing bags differently than for printing T-shirts. Preparing the screen for a T-shirt is correctly aligned, whereas the design you will expose for the bag needs to be inverted so that it appears correctly on the bag. While the T-shirt has an opening for placing it onto the plate from below, the bag, of course, has an opening at the top.

Screen Printing Setup
Insert the prepared, coated, and exposed screen into the printing head. Determine the central alignment and tighten the screen frame so that it is well fixed and does not move during printing. At this point, the logo/design should be facing you.

Before you start printing, you will need to draw a line on the printing plate. This will show you how far up you need to pull the cotton bag so that the print is centrally aligned and positioned the same on each bag.

Printing Cotton Shopping Bags
Water-based Fabric Ink Newtex AF should be applied directly to the screen and then lifted. with TackMax spray adhesive thoroughly spray the printing plate. Then push the cotton bag onto the plate up to the line you drew in the previous step.

Pull the screen down. Using a squeegee, fill the screen printing mesh with ink. Pull the squeegee with the ink across the surface of the mesh twice to get a perfect ink imprint on the cotton bag.

That’s it, now you know everything…

For screen preparation materials and inks, visit sitotisk.net or visit us in Ljubljana – Vevče.

Find cotton bags and other textile products suitable for printing at Promotional textile products Gajcom.

We wish you a pleasant and successful print.

 

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