With our carrier bags you have the choice between digital printing and screen printing. Short handle carrier bags are screen printed whereas long handle carrier bags can also be digitally printed.
Screen printing
For this product, you can choose the screen printing process, which is a real all-rounder among the printing processes. Here the printing ink is printed through a finely woven fabric onto the corresponding textile using a rubber squeegee. The areas that should not be coloured in the final printed image are made colour-impermeable by means of a stencil at the corresponding mesh opening. The direct transfer to the fabric makes the haptics very neutral and, in contrast to alternative printing processes, feels less gummed. This ensures a high wearing comfort which does not affect the fabric feel even after repeated washing and ironing. The screen printing process, which is characterised by a long durability and resistance, produces rich colours with high covering power even on dark textiles. Especially for long runs, this process achieves top printing at comparatively low costs. In addition to printing with conventional inks, so-called spot colours can of course also be selected. For example, metallic colours such as gold, silver and bronze are considered exclusive spot colours with a, particularly high recognition value. Metallic colours are not created in CMYK but are pure Pantone colours. You should use the following Pantone colours to display these elements: Pantone 871 C (gold), Pantone 877 C (silver) and Pantone 876 C (bronze). Of course, all other metallic colours of the standard Formula Guide and Metallic Formula Guide from Pantone are also available.
Please note: Make sure the line width in your print order is at least 0.5 mm to enable an optimum result. If you have chosen text, the font size should be at least 11. Smaller fonts cannot be printed on the cloth.
Digital printing
This product uses the modern digital printing, in which relatively large areas can be printed on textiles. In this process without printing form, motifs are printed directly onto the textiles using an inkjet printer. The process makes individual prints possible even for single pieces. Furthermore, many colours and colour gradients can be displayed, since the printing technique is based on the so-called subtractive colour mixing of CMYK. We can print your bags one-sided or two-sided, each with a printing area of 260 x 320 mm. Before we can print the bags, the textile surface must be treated to ensure the ink sticks. To do this, we apply an “Odourless Fixation Agent” spray. The bags are then dried twice, for 6.5 minutes at a time, at 160°C in a special dryer. During printing, we use a Kornit Avalanche Hexa 1000 printer, based on the ink-jet process. This not only produces outstanding detail and bright colours but is also particularly environmentally friendly. We can print up to 250 bags per order for you. If you need larger quantities, please contact our customer service.
Print motifs on front and back
Depending on the chosen printing method you have different large areas that you can have printed on.
Screen printing
Front and back – centred: 300 x 320 mm
Digital printing
Front and back – centred: 260 x 320 mm