Our major business is rotary screen engraving, and design and colour separation services to the furnishings, fashion and home design, and wallpaper markets We collaborate with several of one of the most renowned household name brands. The chances are that somewhere in your home you have something that we have actually serviced, whether it's wallpaper, the product made use of on your upholstered suite, curtains, or clothing. Simply over a decade ago, we additionally began offering really excellent quality custom product printing and production services, initially on a tiny series of products. This service has actually expanded throughout the years, to the point that we now offer a large range of premium quality UK made product printing and production, spanning various product types and markets.
Fabric printing has been an industry in the UK for a long time, and Meshtex have actually been involved in this industry since the early 70's.
Back then, fabric was printed via display only, either flat silk display, or rotary screen, there was no such thing as digital textile printing in the 70's naturally.
Mimaki Tx1600.
Among the very first digital fabric printers in the UK.
We got involved in digital fabric printing in the late 1990's, but at this moment digital was being used primarily for really small production, and for sampling, it wasn't yet a commercially viable procedure, mostly due to the expense of digital fabric printing at that time.
Things have actually developed for digital printing over the years, and it's currently significantly a commercially viable procedure for textiles, with some extremely certain advantages over display printing.
However the fabric printing market has evolved, and there have actually become various different kinds of fabric printing companies-- which leads us to the bottom line of this article, which is the three main points to consider when looking for digital fabric printing companies.