Printing on jackets (Jacken bedrucken) is more difficult to do these days, mostly because the market has become flooded with low-cost, generic printing products that don’t come anywhere close to being screen printed with any consistency or quality. Screen printing on jackets has been around since the early 1900’s in one form or another, but it wasn’t until the late 70’s that it started gaining popularity and began to be used more often by companies. However, with the advent of cheap, generic screen printing products, most companies decided to abandon it in favor of cheaper, high quality alternatives.
Jackets can be notoriously tricky to print on, even if you know some of the tricks used to successfully screen print on any typical jacket. If you have ever printed on any garment in the past, especially on one with a lot of reflective material, you realize that the process can be a little bit of a nightmare. Unless you really know your jacket type, you are going to run into problems that you may not know about at first. In the early days of screen printing, if you called a jacket screen printed in a screen printing store, you were talking about either a polyester nylon jacket or an unlined wind breaker type of jacket. Even though these are the more common choices for today’s retail industry, there are still a lot of options available when it comes to custom printing on a garment.
Some of the options that are most popular right now are custom screen printing on leather jackets and garments, custom screen printing on knitwear (such as fleece, wool, and other fibers), and custom screen printing on many different types of fabrics, such as vinyl, canvas, cotton, and others. You can get this type of service done for just about any type of garment you would like to print, which makes it a very versatile choice for any retail location. For small businesses or small clothing boutiques, this is just another option to add to the variety of unique apparel they already carry. For large corporations, this is a great way to make sure that their logo or design is always seen and that they are always a brand that people remember and recognize. Whether you are in the apparel business or just looking for a way to get a custom-made jacket that will stand out from the rest, having custom screen printing done on garments is an option that you definitely don’t want to miss out on.