What's the difference between screen printing and heat transfer printing

As you know, all wonderful design comes to our life by printing. During this process, we always can hear some advise from printing factory which way you prefer to go with printing? Screen printing or heat transfer printing? Mostly, buyers prefer screen printing. But do you have an idea what's the difference between this 2 methods? Let's go for more.

Screen Printing

Screen printing is a process in which images are created through a type of stencil process. Artwork is separated into its different colors, and then screens are "burned" with all the different color separations. Since the different colors have to be lined up perfectly, the art work is limited to the number of screen any specific printing machine can hold. The average printing shops usually have machines that will hold up to six screens, allowing printing of artwork up to six colors. 

Heat Transfer

Heat transfer is a process in which art work is printed with specialty ink on specialty paper and then transferred to a garment by applying heat with a heat press. Because of this process, full color images can be applied to garments. 

I know what you're thinking, "Why not just use heat transfer it sounds better and easier?" With the recent advancements in heat transfer technologies, it is a very good process to use for garment production. However, it is a time consuming process. Each item produced requires an average of three minutes to produce. With screen printing the initial set up will take a little longer, but after that, each garment can be produced in a matter of seconds. Plus, the set up for screen printing can be used many time as you want.

Those are something I would like share with you today, if you are interesting to learn more on diaper bags, cooler bags, fabrics and something else.