From the printers point of viewWritten by Florie Lyn Masarate
Customers requesting for printing quotes from printing companies get frustrated by sometimes long process of getting one. They tend to complain about services that these companies provide either by time it takes to order one and time it also takes to have them. This is from customers’ point of view.Let us hear it from printing companies’ side, for a change. Like clients, these printers also experience aggravation while dealing and doing printing quotes. It would just be fair to say that both ways problems are encountered. What are things that these companies have trouble with in printing quotes? Incomplete and incorrect details. Customers sometimes forget information needed in order for procedure of a quote to be complete. An example is giving of wrong email addresses. Imagine working on a complex job given by client and rushing with it just to have it finished and ready. Then sending it by given email and having it returned because it is wrong address. Another is no contact numbers supplied for companies to call when they encounter things that needed clarifications. Not specifying products needed. Giving specific amount or quantities would help these printers a lot and they would not have to wonder about what to put into your quotes. Specifying also what kind of printing process you need is one way of assisting these printers compute for expenses that will have to be paid.
| | Inkjet printers replacing traditional screen printingWritten by Florie Lyn Masarate
Printing into garments has been an age-old process that people have been doing many years before it had become widespread. The process is long and complicated and needs expertise to be able to achieve right result. With development in technology came process of sublimation, which paved way to transferring decorations in garments. This is simpler compared to traditional direct screen printing. Just like traditional screen printing, sublimation transfers have been done before people printing companies came to know about its possibility. This has given people another option in decorating variety of products in full colors and in small amounts. With use of inkjet printers as screen printing methods comes another addition to transfer of prints into garments. The fact that this method has been proven as much more effective and result-oriented than traditional and sublimation process has made people wonder if this will be able to replace those other methods in long run. Printing on garments using these printers is less time consuming as only process involved here is loading of materials needed. With inkjet, full colored prints are printed in a matter of minutes, from start until finish. This is just like putting graphics into prints, without use of paper. The cost involved in this process is not as expensive as that of sublimation and direct screen printing. Inkjet printers can be considered competitive garment printers with only cost of initial printer cost to take into account.
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