hi guys i'm carissa with bella+canvas and today we're going to talk about fleece
in this video Cole from shirt agency is going to cover everything you need to
know about printing on fleece by using three basic types of ink plastisol
water base and discharge let's go see how it's done so what's the difference
between printing on fleece versus Jersey what really just comes down to
fluffiness so a lot of people mess up by not adjusting their off contact we've
raised all of our off contact so that we can have a nice smooth even print off
contact is just the difference between the screen and the actual fabric do you
want a small gap so that you can allow the ink to come through and not be stuck
to the fabric so you've been doing this for a really long time I know you've
been putting on different fabrics fleece jersey whatever it may be but
what is your favorite thing about printing on the bella canvas fleece
well I mean other than the fabric just being soft and great to wear it has a
really smooth surface so our inks go on smoothly and we don't have any bumpiness
in the texture from the weave of the fabric
so what's the first print that we're going to do today on our 60/40 fleece
well the most common ink for a hoody is going to be plastisol and so we're going
to use a low bleed ink by willflex I'm so excited to print this first style
today because this is actually our newest style for fast fashion
it's our women's cropped hooded fleece it actually has tonal draw cords and
it's definitely on trend with what you see in retail so I'm excited to see it
printed yeah sure it's going to look great so what Vlad is going to do is
he's going to load the garment onto the board and we're going to do one pass of
plastisol flash it and then do another pass that's going to give us a
nice bright ink so the flash units are going to be curing it for only about
four to six seconds and when it's cured it's going to be dry to the touch so
that we can do a nice secondary layer that's smooth so you can see the second one
has already been flash cured and now it's going to have a nice bright print
because we have two layers oh yeah the white and they stay nice and
thin
and here's file print looks awesome so now we're going to move on to a
water-based ink and the water-based inks are really nice because they kind of get
into the fabric you're going to want to go with a lighter color garment or
you're going to put some sort of white base underneath it today we're just
going to be putting water base directly onto the fabric so it's a really nice
integrated print so for the water base we created this custom Pantone color and
we did it with the pigment so we go in we measure all the different pigments
and we can get an exact Pantone match so you can see it's a real thin water-based
ink and I'm just going to put it above the art spread it out a little so that
we can start doing our first sample print of it how long does it take to
make these custom inks for somebody who's experienced with mixing it's
probably a 10 to 15 minute job per color but within inexperience it it's a little
rough yeah it looks and feels great I love it on our peach so today we're
going to print on our storm and then also our heather forest so for the next
inks because we're going to do some dark garments we're going to do discharge and
this is going to strip away the pigment with this type of ink we're going to
have the same feel that we had with that water-based print okay it's going to be
like real soft premium feel instead of that thicker plastisoll which I feel like
customers are gravitating towards more just where it feels like it's a part of
the fabric
because its next garments a little bit darker we're going to have a little bit
more of a vintage quality because the discharge is made for 100% cotton but
we're doing it on one of your heather blend the darker garments especially
because of the polyester that's where you'll see some difference in washing on
the lighter garment the pigment holds on a little bit better but the darker
coming when you wash you'll see that's a polyester let go of some of your pigment
so if that's why you'll get that more retro feel with this type of thing yes
and I'm excited to see it on our heather forest heather's fastest growing
fabrications in our industry and we decided to add Heather to our fleece so
this is one of our newer colors for this year and the textured fabric will really
make the prints pop so I'm excited to see it if you guys have any questions
about what cole covered in the video today please leave them in the comments
below we'll also include a link to the crop hooded fleece that we showed in
this video today it's our newest fast fashion style and it's something you
don't want to miss see you next time.
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