For further information on organic cotton farming, please read on below.

What are the problems with conventional cotton production?

Conventionally grown cotton uses more toxic pesticides and fertilisers than any other single crop. It epitomises the worst effects of chemically dependent agriculture. Every year global cotton farmers use almost £1.7 billion worth of pesticides–an amount more than 10 percent of the world’s pesticides and nearly a quarter of the world’s insecticides.

Today’s cotton farmers typically use many, if not most, of the hazardous pesticides available on the market including aldicarb, phorate, methamidophos and endosulfan. The majority of these pesticides are organophosphates, which are pesticides that were originally created as nerve agents during World War II, and carbamate pesticides.

Cotton pesticides are not only ecologically devastating but they are also harmful to people and animals. These pesticides can poison farm workers, drift into neighbouring communities, contaminate ground and surface water and kill beneficial insects and soil micro-segments.

(Source: Panna.org)

What is organic cotton?

Organic cotton is that which is produced with sustainable materials and methods that have a low impact on the environment. Organic cotton farming eliminates the use of toxic pesticides and fertilizers, replenishes and maintains soil fertility, as well as builds biologically diverse agriculture. There are very strict global regulations on organic cotton. In the United States, federal restrictions prohibit the use of genetically engineered seed for organic farming.

According to the Organic Cotton Market Report 2009 released by Organic Exchange in May 2010, global sales of organic cotton apparel and home textile products reached an estimated $4.3 billion in 2009. This reflects a 35 percent increase from the $3.2 billion market recorded in 2008. Companies reported significant growth of their organic cotton programs, and increased adoption of standards addressing organic product traceability and sustainable textile processing. (Source: ota.com)

Why purchase organic cotton?

India is the world’s chief supplier of cotton. To further educate yourself on this subject we encourage you to watch the video below. It powerfully illustrates why the change to organic cotton production is so important to the health of farming families. It tells the sad story of Anan, a peasant farmer in southern India caught up in the vicious cycle of pesticide-dependent cotton growing. You will see the effects of heavy use of pesticides on cotton, learn how international pesticide companies exploit cotton farmers and observe the tragic consequences of these conventional growing practices on the farmers, their families and their environment.

The following table illustrates the differences between conventional and organic cotton and as you can tell, they are quite vast. Feel free to bookmark it, save it your mobile phone, or put it on your refrigerator to remind you of the importance of choosing organic cotton products.

GARMENT PRINTINGS TIME CRITICAL TEAM ARE HERE TO MANAGE YOUR ORDERS SMOOTHLY SO YOU CAN CONCENTRATE ON YOUR OTHER BUSINESS NEEDS. 

COMPLETE OUR QUOTE FORM AND THEN CALL OUR TIME CRITICAL EXPRESS SAME DAY TSHIRT PRINTING TEAM NOW – 0844 588 9808

If you find yourself in a situation where you require an urgent t shirt or promotional clothing printed order, you can rest assured that we will strive to meet your demands to the best of our abilities. In most cases if you submit to us your urgent order pre two-o’clock on the day before your deadline, we will probably be able to do it for you. Of course it always depends on the complexity of your print design and how many garments you require, but we prefer to have a “yes we can!” attitude than to not accept the challenge outright. For your convenience we also provide express next day delivery services for your urgent printing needs. 

If you have come across this article in an urgent printing position, the first order of business to be taken, in order to expedite your process, is to fill out our online quick quote form and submit us your artwork and processing details so that we can forward to our printing facilities and provide you with a speedy response as to the feasibility of your order and our ability to meet your deadline. Upon receiving payment we can then proceed to provide you visuals with your artwork until you are satisfied and permit us to carry on and print your garments. We will then do our best to ship your order out at the soonest possible opportunity and get you your garments on time.

At Garment Printing, we’re always proud to provide last minute, urgent, and express turnarounds for our customers. It’s printing made simple—and we love to print! 

To break in the New Year we are already pleased to announce our collaboration with world-renowned supermodel, Andrej Pejic, the young star taking the world by storm for his flexibility in androgynous fashion modeling. The photographer John Paul Pietrus photographed Andrej for a t shirt design and we were contracted to carry out the t shirt printing in London. As of a few days ago the t shirts are already available for purchase directly from John Paul Pietrus’ website. A few days ago Andrej tweeted:

We advise that you take a hint from Andrej if you want your hands on one of these t shirts and act quickly while supplies last.

The t shirts were printed using Direct To Garment (DTG) digital printing and came out beautifully. All parties involved were very happy with the finished product in the end. DTG digital printing was the preferred printing technique because of the multicoloured design in the photograph that was printed to the white t shirt, as well as the short run order, “cause if it’s not exclusive, what’s the point?”

Don’t delay, get up to the exhibition for your chance to buy some high quality designer printed t shirts and printed tote bags…and all proceeds go to Charity.

The exhibition of art, t shirt printing and printed tote bags is in London, Leonard St – Love Retouch, 106 Leonard Street, London, EC2a 4RH

Limited edition t shirt printing and printed bags – All proceeds going to raising money for the Japanese tsunami victims.

We love to print tshirts – we love to support charity -

For any order…

• Select the right item: Garment Printing has a large selection of value, medium and premium priced items. Keep in mind that your order price will reflect the quality of your chosen garment. You can always economise cost by choosing a lesser expensive garment.
• Order a larger quantity: The most significant variable in the cost of customising items is the number of items ordered. Since set up costs are allocated across all the garments in the order, increasing the garments ordered results in a lower cost per item. There are price decreases at 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 and so forth. Contact our sales team for further information.
• Consider garment colour: Light garment colours will always be less expensive to print onto than darker garments. In screen printing and direct to garment (DTG) digital printing, before a dark garment can be printed onto, a white background layer has to be applied requiring either a separate screen or more ink for the printed order. Essentially, a white shirt will be more inexpensive than a black shirt.

For Screen Printing orders…

• Reduce the amount of colours in your artwork/design: Screen printing charges increase as the number of colours in your artwork increases. If you reduce the number of colours, you not only reduce your set up fees for the entire order, but you also lower your price per item.
• Reduce the amount of locations that you are printing on: Every location you choose to print on carries a set up fee and a printing cost per item. This is because each location requires it’s own set of screens and separate printing process. By reducing the locations, you will reduce the number of set up costs and printing costs per item.

For Embroidery orders…

• Reuse logos you have embroidered before: The information assembled to produce an embroidered logo is digital and can be saved. This means if you use that same logo again for the same size embroidery, you don’t pay set up again unless you change the size.
• Decrease the size or density of your logo: Size and density drive the “stitch count” required to produce your logo in embroidery. If you decrease the size of your logo, the number of stitches will also be reduced, decreasing the cost to embroider each garment in your order.

Garment Printing is pleased to announce the arrival of our hot water bottle covers, new for 2012! They are available just in time for this holiday season, making an excellent Christmas stocking filler or gift for a friend, colleague, or loved one. We are offering a stylish range of covers for hot water bottles available for personalisation in London and the United Kingdom. They just arrived to our facilities here at Garment Printing and even we are jumping all over them, we absolutely love them. We think they’re genuinely brilliant. Supply is limited and will go fast with the holiday demand so make sure you act fast as to not miss out. Remember, if you snooze, you lose!

The hot water bottle covers come in three colours: bottle green, navy, and red. Their material is a cotton and polyester blend (80/20) and are of fantastic quality. Their measurements are 35cm L x 23cm W. These personalised hot water bottle covers are the must have winter essential. With holidays just around the corner and temperatures dropping, you will not want to miss out on these hot water bottle covers!

Personalise them to show your favourite quote, display your alma mater’s insignia, or your supported football club. The possibilities are endless and we will print whatever your heart desires. We love to print t shirts and customised clothing in London and the United Kingdom but will also print onto hot water bottle covers because more than anything else, WE LOVE TO PRINT!

For more information on personalising your own bespoke hot water bottle covers in time for the holiday season as a gift or stocking filler in London and the United Kingdom, contact us for an immediate quote! Also feel free to ring us at 0844 588 9808. Hurry while supplies last!

We thought we would pass along this charity fundraising event being organised by Cure Cancer at UCL, a charity dog walk in London on the 4th of December with Dima Yeremenko. The event takes place from 13:00 to 15:30 in the afternoon at The Pavilion Café in Sunny Hill Park (London). The Pavilion Café will provide refreshments and the cost of entry is only £15. Further information can be solicited directly from the event web page.

The charity event has only one week left to go and the weather forecast for London, United Kingdom, is anticipating a high of around 9 degrees with mostly sunny skies. It is going to be a beautiful London winter day, so please get out there and support a great cause while getting you and your dog some exercise! We enthusiastically encourage that you print your own personalised t shirts for the event. Garment Printing is proud to offer a discount to you if you tell us it is for this London charity event. We would also like to kindly remind you that we also print t shirts for dogs! How brilliant is that?

So come on, London! What are you waiting for?

So far we have taken t shirt printing orders from companies planning Christmas parties and end of the year celebrations that want to celebrate their special occasion with festive t shirt designs for them and their employees. Customised t shirts are just perfect for the gift. One particular t shirt printing London client was a company having an Ugly Christmas printed Sweater inspired event where they printed off ugly Christmas sweater designs onto t shirts selected by the employees. We thought this was a brilliant idea and had a lot of fun working with them. Some families in London too have ordered printed t shirts and personalised clothing for family portraits this holiday season. We’re also receiving orders for more conventional holiday designs on t shirts and personalised clothing rendering the likeness of Santa, reindeers, Christmas trees, ornaments and other printed symbols of the season. Whether you are a business in London or the UK, a family, or individual; Garment Printing is here to help you fulfill all of your t shirt printing and personalised clothing needs this holiday season!

Want to do something new and exciting this Christmas for your employees? Throw your own Ugly Christmas Sweater party. We can help you!

Another client wanted to print t shirts all about London and they put our design team to the challenge.
What is unique about London and Christmas?
What t shirt printing London ideas could we suggest?
Is London the coolest city to be at during Christmas?

The end result will be a t shirt printing London competition for all our fans and friends…it’s going London mad…and that means it’s going T shirt Printing London Mad…but we love it…we just love to print…

Another idea…

Would you like to make a family portrait t shirt this year to send out to family and friends? Personalise your own t shirts and clothing for you and your family to wear that will look great and provide you and your children (and pets) memories never to be forgotten.

Need some gift ideas? Nothing is more thoughtful than taking the time to personalise an article of clothing, a t shirt for example, for a loved one, friend, or colleague that they will appreciate and cherish for many years.

Please feel free to contact us for more information. From all of us at Garment Printing, we wish you all very happy holidays and safe travels this season.

Watch our baby in action…

We can now offer this machine to specific orders for our t shirt printing and garment printing services.

Kornit makes the highest quality state of the art direct to garment (DTG) digital printing machines for t shirts, polo shirts, hoodies and much more. Very few printers in the United Kingdom (we know of only one competitor) have access to this top end DTG t shirt printing machine, and we are very happy to offer its DTG t shirt printing services to our esteemed clients for t shirt printing services and much more.

What is so special about this DTG digital t shirt printer?

Most direct to garment DTG digital printing machines can only print on standard cotton and cotton blended textiles, whereas the Kornit printer can handle materials like denim, leather, polyester, lycra, and silk amongst other materials. Can you believe this? It prints onto all types of materials. Not just t shirts and not just cotton…

It’s the t shirt printing dream, the t shirt customisation god, the garment printing machine of machines. It naturally prints onto light and dark garments too.

All DTG digital printers require the pre-treatment of garments before being printed, typically done with a manual spray gun. The Kornit machine, however, applies pre-treatment automatically through an automated process. It’s a beast! Kornit printed garments cannot be cured using a traditional heat press like is the norm with other machines. It requires a higher velocity air dryer that results in a much higher quality print both similar in look and feel to a screen printed garment. The Kornit’s automated pre-treatment and air drying system produces a higher quality printing job as well as durable print that will maintain its vibrant multicoloured design and not fade after washing. This is just what we need for our t shirt printing clients in London and the UK, as well as our international clients.

An issue common to DTG t shirt printing which is not experienced by the Kornit machine is instability by the print heads of the printer. Often gases can penetrate into the inks, which disturb the printing head’s nozzle, thus affecting the production quality of the final t shirt or garment print. The Kornit machine uses vacuum packed cartridges with degassed ink that does not cause this issue.

Other printers without access to the Kornit machine will not be able to offer the same quality product because their machines require manual pretreatment and a heat press to cure their garments and t shirts. Not to say the other DTG machines are useless, far from it, but the Kornit’s superior components, and the speed at which it prints, is the reason why at Garment Printing, we had to make room for this DTG printing machine. Speed of production is what stands us out from the rest. And quality of service too! Express, fast, and urgent turnarounds are important to all our retail fashion online t shirt printing stores. So as we grow, so do our clients.

Kornit Breeze 921 direct to garment (DTG) printer technical specifications.

Embroidery for embroidered clothing, embroidered t shirts, embroidered polo shirts and much much more…
Embroidery offers you a long lasting, professional finish at a very reasonable price. This is more subtle than printed t shirts in some cases, and suits the corporate market well, creating a quality club or business brand identity and branding staff uniforms and corporate workwear. Embroidered clothing is highly versatile; the design can be stitched on to almost any garment (so long as the stitching in quite tight knit) using a computerised embroidery machine. It is important to remember that a design may need some alteration in order to achieve the best results for t shirts and embroidered clothing. Large designs can be expensive.

Every design for embroidered t shirts, embroidered polo shirts, embroidered hoodies, and in fact all embroidered clothing – the design needs to be digitized. This means it needs to be converted into a file format suitable for embroidery machines. This creates a file format suitable for embroidered clothing and also provides a stitch count. When we have this stitch count we can provide a quotation for your embroidered clothing needs.

Direct to Garment (DTG) t shirt printing and garment printing.
Direct to garment t shirt printing offers the latest technology in digital t shirt and garment printing. With this method, we can produce full colour printed t shirts on dark and light garments and t shirts in seconds and minutes. Offering full colour t shirt printing images and highly technical artwork with multiple colours. This technology of t shirt printing is replacing the tradition transfer t shirt printing approach, it is more durable and nicer quality. This method can be used to print on both light and dark t shirt fabrics and garments, with precise results. Recommended for small volume jobs up to 25-50 units, but sometimes on larger volume t shirt printing needs with ultra detailed colours, and its great for stag and hen do’s t shirt printing needs for example. The finished result is durable and long lasting however does not offer the quality of the screen printing method.

Our latest addition to our t shirt and garment printing fleet of printing DTG direct to garment printing machines is the Kornit Breeze:

Transfer Printing for t shirt printing and garment printing services
First used in the 1750’s for printing china and pottery, transfer printing, is where we apply an image (printed on to specialised transfer material) to the fabric using a heat transfer press. Traditionally it is the most cost effective means of producing shorter runs of garments and for t shirt printing, but as DTG printing machine technology evolves, this may well soon change. It offers you a choice of full colour designs onto white and dark garments and t shirts. Although we choose where possible not to offer Transfer Printing onto dark garments unless the logo or design is small, otherwise its quite a think material and DTG may be better. For any queries contact garment printing and they will advise you. It is superb for printing photos, numbers, names or web addresses. Ideal for stag or hen do’s and sports teams.

We hope this has helped you and if you have any enquiries just get in touch.

At Garment Printing – WE LOVE TO PRINT!