1. The traditional silk screen printing process using water based dyestuffs.

This process maintains the inherent qualities of the cloth ensuring soft handle (feel) and accurate reproduction of colour. For items such as bags, it is a less costly way of printing as compared to the standard type of T shirt printing where plastic inks are used. It's primary limitation is that it is restricted to the printing of dark colours onto light cloth. However, we have managed to refine the technique to enable us to successfully print full colour images (four colour process), even onto our natural (off-white) cotton and canvas bags.

2. Modern silk screen printing using 'Plastisol' inks.
In the traditional process (see left), the print colour is absorbed by the cloth (effectively dying it) but with plastic inks, the colour sits on the top of the cloth and is cured at high temperature to make it dry and colour fast. The main advantages of this process is that it enables the printing of light colours onto dark backgrounds, and very much finer mesh screens can be used, which in turn enables superior quality four colour process printing. The main disadvantage is the end product price as the inks cost more than water based dyes and the print speed is considerably slower.

3. Heat transfer printing.
Heat transfer is ideal for printing small runs of many products, especially where full colour is required. Sublimation printing enables us to print high quality graphics onto items such as mouse mats, mugs, tiles, T shirts, even mobile phones!

4. Embroidery
Many types of design, including logos and text, can be embroidered with up to seven stitch colours onto bags, caps, clothing and other promotional textiles (see under 'decoration options' in individual product descriptions). In the case of simple smaller designs, embroidery is often only be a little more expensive than screen printing - however, the perceived value of an embroidered item can be higher than one with a screen or heat transfer print.