Screen Printing

Screen Printing

We have 15 years experience doing various Print jobs from local, national and international
clients. PKS Printing and Embroidery is your one stop for all your custom printing and
embroidery needs. Screen printing is a craft and we are committed to producing high quality
products with attention to detail. We work closely with our clients to provide a complete
screen printing and management service from concept through to finished article.
We are one of the few printers in Miami that are experts in the usage of water based textile
inks and discharge inks for T-shirt printing. We re-use and recycle as much as possible.

We are one of the few printers in Miami that are experts in the usage of water based textile
inks, oversized printing, discharge inks and foiling for T-shirt printing. We re-use and recycle
as much as possible. We aim to provide a quality product that exceeds your expectations.
We offer the following products and services:

Custom graphic design and color separation
Screen preparation and screen curation
Custom or contract embroidery and screen printing services
Subcontract embroidery and screen printing services
Transfer designs on T-Shirts
Apparel at wholesale prices
Athletic Apparel Printing
With over 15 years experience in the screen printing industry, we strive in putting a quality
product in the hands of all our customers. All of our work is done in-house in efforts to meet

the demands of our valued customers.We aim to please and make you a repeat customer. If
you have a better price we will try our best to match it or beat it.

Discharge Printing

Discharge is a specialty ink used in screen printing. It results in very soft hand, it shows the
shirt’s natural fiber instead of laying a thick layer of ink on top of the shirt, and can be printed
as pure discharge or with pigments added so that the result is a colored discharge print. By
itself, discharge ink removes the dye of the cotton fiber when it hits a certain temperatur e. It
works with a variety of different brands and styles of t-shirts or other garments, with some
styles and colors having stronger results than others.

Water Based Printing

Vibrant, eco-friendly custom screen printing on lighter color garments

Waterbased positives:

Eco-friendly
Very soft prints
Beautiful colors
Easy to work with
Awesome for printing on lighter-color garments

Waterbased negatives:

Not well suited for darker garments
Affected by the shirt color, so that printing on something like a purple shirt may
change the ink color
Not ideal for all materials
Traditional inks are better for very large print run

Water based prints have many positive qualities. The industry term “hand” refers to how soft
a print feels on the decorated item. Water based inks are well known for the minimal or soft
hand that they provide. Prints made with water based can be ironed, while plastisol prints
cannot be, as the iron’s heat plate would melt the PVC in the ink.

The colors in a water based print are often more vibrant than those in a similar plastisol
print. When properly cured, a shirt or other item with a water based print will survive
countless trips through the washing machine, being very durable, and the ink would most
likely outlast the fabric on which it is printed. Because of the lesser hand of water based, a
shirt with a very large and solid design printed on the front will feel light and thin, while
sometimes large heavy plastisol printed designs are referred to as “bulletproof” because of the
thickness of the layers of ink.

Water based ink sits into the fabric of the printed shirt, not on top of the fabric like plastisol
printing. This allows skin under the design to breathe better, and can increase the amount of
comfort felt while wearing the decorated item.

Water based screen printing and the environment

Even minimal research into the effects of plastic on the environment brings up lists of serious
hazards and harmful consequences. Plastic is polluting our oceans, filling our trash dumps,
and doing permanant damage to our world, our environment and our future here on Earth.
Plastic has countless uses and is a great building and manufacturing material in and of itself,
but cannot easily be reused. A plastic soda bottle put on the curb in a recycling bin can never
be melted down to be used as another soda bottle.

Plastisol is PVC ink. PVC is polyvinyl chloride, and is a known carcinogen, meaning that it can
cause cancer. Plastic’s chemicals can leach out of products. As the Green movement furthers,
more people will turn away from plastic in every realm possible, and this will, and already
does, include their preferrence to what type of ink is used on all the screen printed goods that
they purchase and wear.

Foil Printing

Foil printing is the way to give your t-shirt designs that added sparkle that make them stand
out. It works great as a design accent as well as a bold iconic statement. We’ve mastered the
art of foil printing in order to make your designs pop.

Available Colors

 Silver
 Gold
 Copper
 Red
 Blue
 Green
 Gunmetal
 We can also special order a variety of other colors including: black, rainbow, oil slick,

pink, swirl, gold hologram, silver hologram, gold rainbow, silver rainbow, purple and
pearlescent. We do not stock these colors so turnaround time may vary depending on
availability and shipping times. A 72 piece minimum applies to these colors.

For more information please visit
http://www.pksprinting.com