If you’re in the trade, a buyer for a brand maybe? Or perhaps you have your own children’s clothing brand or you’re just in the process of developing a clothing or homeware brand for example.
Whatever the case may be, if you’re in the trade, you are undoubtedly discovering when searching for digital fabric printing services online, that you’re finding a lot of printers who are offering digital fabric printing for retail, rather than trade / commercial clients.
The purpose of this article is simply to explain the main differences between a trade only or commercial digital fabric printer such as ourselves, and one of the numerous websites that you will come across offering a more retail-focused fabric printing service.
The Fabric Printing Process
Often when it comes to fabric printing for retail customers, the finished product is not as important as it may be for commercial clients.
If the end user is purchasing one metre of fabric, which they’re wanting to make up into an item as a gift, for example, this customer is unlikely to have the same kinds of concerns and requirements as a commercial client looking for digitally printed fabric in bulk for cushions, pillowcases or other homeware items.
As a result, the print process used is likely to be of more importance to a trade customer than it may be to a retail customer.
We’re able to print using various digital textile printing processes, which means that we can choose the particular process which will be most likely to provide the results you require.
The Service
While the quality of the product is paramount, the quality of the service is, of course, another very important consideration when choosing a digital fabric printing supplier.
Trade customers usually find that they get closer to the kind of quality of service they’re used to getting, from trade-focused suppliers, who’re used to working with the trade.
Please Note – any reference to lead times are a correct estimate at the time the article was published. Lead times are always estimated and never guaranteed, and for our current estimated lead times see: lead times & deadlines.
Meshtex Ltd have been supplying to trade, within the textile and wall paper printing industries since 1972, so we have a lot of experience when it comes to keeping our customers happy.