Turn-Key Tagless Printing Solution from Inkcups Now
Inkcups Now has assisted many companies, from very small to very large, in setting up tagless printing operation. We offer a turnkey solution for printing t-shirt labels as well as printing garment tags on sweatshirts, underwear, outerwear etc. We have everything you need to go tagless:
Inks for Tagless Printing - skin non-irritant, free of heavy metal and restricted phthalates, CPSIA'08 and Prop 65 compliant, stretchable and passing 50 industrial wash tests
Tagless printing - also known as "tag printing" and "tagless label printing" - is perhaps one of the hottest trends in apparel manufacturing and promotional apparel industry today.
Apparel manufacturers started looking for alternatives to sew-in t-shirt labels and garment tags several years ago, mainly because they were trying to make the consumer more comfortable in their clothes. The most popular solution was to use labels that adhere to the fabric by thermal transfer ("heat transfer").
However, thermal transfer labels did not always solve consumers' problems because these labels often were not soft enough to the touch (not "soft hand" as people in the screen printing industry put it). In addition, heat transfer labels have been causing skin allergies in a small percentage of babies and adults. On the production side, thermal transfer labels were not convenient for short runs because they had to be purchased in high volumes, with long lead times.
Many types of apparel - from underwear to activewear and outerwear - can be decorated using tagless technology. The tags printed on t-shirts, socks, bras, boxers, briefs, sweatshirts and sweatpants are higher quality and cheaper than heat transfer or sew-in neck labels. Among suitable materials are: cotton, nylon, flock, fleece and ribbed textiles. Read Tagless Printing FAQs to learn more about the limitations and advantages of tagless printing.
Prefer listening to reading? - Check out our Tagless Printing Podcasts - a series of concise interviews with textile printing specialists. You will learn about tagless printing background, hear the comparison of pad printing basics to screen printing ones and more.
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