Meshtex Printing Services offer very high quality, trade digital fabric printing services, with low minimum orders, quick leadtimes and competitive trade pricing.
We can digitally print onto a wide range of fabrics, including cottons and linens, via our direct to textile Mimaki digital fabric printers running pigment inks, and also onto a diverse range of synthetic fabrics via dye sublimation transfer printing.
UK Digital Fabric Printing Services to the Trade.
It’s important for us to point out that we’re a trade digital textile printer, vs a supplier of retail digitally printed fabrics.
Many UK fabric printing websites offering bespoke printed fabric are set up for retail, rather than trade, offering retail customers the ability to have their own digitally printed fabric produced from designs that they can simply upload and then have printed and delivered a few days later, and to pick from stock printed fabrics.
As a commission digital fabric printer for the trade, this isn’t quite what our service is about. We do have small minimums, and we do have competitive lead times, but we don’t digitally print on a web to print basis for retail customers.
Minimum Order Quantities
Our MOQ on printed fabric on the roll is 25m, except for our 2218 Half Panama Cotton 230gsm where we can print from just 1m.
If you’re looking for a competent and reliable supplier who can help you right from the design and colour separation through to the finished printed fabric, or even to the finished, made up product, then give us a call on 01625 876618, email us, or submit a quote request form, and let’s see how we can help.
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.
There are several benefits of printing fabric digitally as opposed to the more traditional screen printing, which includes superior colour matching, unlimited colours, a lack of setup costs, numerous designs within the same print run (for example, a 5 metre print could consist of 5 or more different digital designs), and environmental factors (digital printing uses roughly half the ink compared to screen).
Artwork and Colour Separation Services
One of our USPs is our in-house colour separation studio. We have been delivering colour separation and artwork services to the fabric printing and wallpaper printing industry for decades.
The fact that we still have a darkroom tells you how long we’ve been doing this for, although the darkroom is now used for something else of course. OK maybe we don’t have a darkroom now, come to think of it, but we have a room which once was the darkroom…
Our artists used to work with traditional methods, including brushes and film, completing colour separations by hand. These days we use specialist cad systems, but the kind of experience and skill that we have in our studio is extremely rare, and enables us to offer superior artwork and separation services, which ultimately results in higher quality digitally printed fabrics.
Just one example of the benefit of our experience in this area is our ability to alter separations to ensure perfect rotary screen printing to account for colour spread when digital printing has been used for sampling purposes, prior to bulk printing via rotary.
In this situation, we would usually lower the tonal curve and reduce any solid areas and fine areas in the design, to allow for the colour spread during engraving and rotary printing. This is an advanced method of design alteration which differs from the standard solutions of working to devalue the original digital print by increasing the graph and expanding the solid colours by adding pixels.
This isn’t the only way our expertise and knowledge in this area may be able to help to improve print results for our customers, of course, there are many more.
Digital Fabric Printing for All Requirements
We can supply bespoke digitally printed fabric for furnishings, upholstery, fashion, linings, curtain making, crafts, quilts, tea towels, tote bags, shopping bags, pillowcases, napkins, flags and banners, sports apparel, scarves, seat paddings, tablecloths, costume and cosplay and more.
Making up of Finished Products
In addition to colour separation and artwork services and digital fabric printing services, we can supply you with the finished product, including CMT services (Cut Make Trim).
If you were thinking that you would need to find a design studio to help you with your separations, and then look for a digital fabric printing service and finally find a CMT firm to make up your products for you – fear not, we’ll look after everything for you, from start to finish.
We can produce cushions, pillowcases, seat covers, napkins, tea towels, oven gloves, aprons, tote bags, shopping bags, makeup bags, tablecloths, and more. Even if it isn’t something we have done before, if you ask, we can probably make it.
Digital Printing on a Wide Range of Fabrics
We can offer you a wide range of fabric choices, including several different 100% cotton fabrics, linen blends and linen union. Also, synthetic fabrics including stunning quality faux materials such as Repreve 100% recycled linen look fabric, Linen look FR fabric, vegan alternative to silks, wools and more!