Technical
Print chemistry, fabric bases, fixation and durability — the textile-engineering side.
Fabric Panel Repeat: How Your Design Repeats Down the Roll
On fabric by the metre the repeat unit is one panel — full fabric width by 1 metre. What that means for your artwork, and the one thing it rules out.
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Reactive Printing FAQ: 20 Questions Brands Ask
Twenty straight answers to the questions brands ask most about reactive printing — what it is, which fabrics take it, what to send us and how ordering works.
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7 Common Textile Print Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Seven textile printing mistakes that cause reprints — resolution, colour expectations, print method, base choice, seams, repeats and skipping the sample — and how to avoid each one.
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Cotton vs Linen for Reactive Printing: How Each Takes Colour
Cotton and linen both take reactive dye into the fibre, but cotton renders crisp and saturated while linen reads softer and textured. Which base suits your artwork.
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How to Design Seamless Repeat Patterns for Fabric
A seamless repeat is a tile whose edges continue into each other perfectly. How to choose a repeat type, build the tile, and test it before printing.
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How Colour Works on Cotton: RGB, CMYK and the Reactive Gamut
Screens make colour from light; cotton makes it from dye bonded inside the fibre. Why RGB, CMYK and the reactive gamut differ, and how to design for cloth.
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Placed Print vs All-Over Print: When to Use Each
A placed print sits in one area of a finished garment. An all-over print covers the whole panel before cut-and-sew. How to choose between them.
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Why Reactive Prints Don’t Crack or Fade: Wash-Fast Printing Explained
Reactive prints don't crack or fade because the colour is bonded inside the fibre, not laid on top of it. What that means over 600+ wash cycles.
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DPI, Colour and File Formats for Textile Printing: What Matters
PDF, TIFF, JPG or PNG all work — what decides print quality is resolution at finished size. The DPI rule, format table and a 60-second pre-flight check.
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How to Prepare Artwork for All-Over Print (Designer Checklist)
Design at panel level, keep 200–300 DPI, extend past every cut line and mind the seams: a practical checklist for preparing all-over print artwork.
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The full mental model in fifteen minutes — the chemistry in plain language, and how to design artwork that takes advantage of it.