As we all know, the most common way in clothing production is the traditional screen printing. But With the development of technology, digital printing become more and more popular.

Let’s discuss the difference between digital t-shirt printing and screen printing?

1. Process flow

The traditional screen printing includes making a screen, and using this screen to print the ink on the surface of fabric. Every color depends on a separate screen combined to accomplish the final look.

Digital printing is a much newer method that requires the printing content being processed by a computer, and printed directly onto the surface of your product.

2. Environmental protection

Screen printing’s process flow is a little complicated than digital printing. It involves washing the screen, and this step will create large amount of wastewater, which contains heavy metal compound, benzene, methanol and other harmful chemical material.

Digital printing only need heat press machine to fix the printing. There will be no wastewater.

3.Pringting effect

Screen painting has to print one color with an independent color, so it is very limited in color selection

Dightal printing allow users to print millions of colors, making it a perfect choice for full-color photographs Due to the digital printing has finished complex computing, the final print will turn out more precise.

4.Printing cost

Screen painting spend a large set-up cost on the screen making, but it also makes screen printing more cost-effective for large yield. And when you need to print colorful image, you will spend more cost on preparetion.

Digital painting is most cost-effective for small amount of diy printed t-shirts. To a large extent, the quantity of colors used won’t affect the final price.

In a word, both printing methods are very efficient in textile printing. Knowing their own advantages and disadvantages will bring you the maximum value in the long run.