Women's Print Tops Guide

Welcome to the worlds greatest guide to Women's Print Tops.  Are you actually looking for ladies printed tops?  Well, we hope you are because the reality is that you have found our women's printed shirt page.  In this women's clothing section of the Apparel Search directory, you will find all sorts of interesting information on the subject.

A shirts is a garment for the upper body made of fabric.  This type of clothes is often made with a collar, sleeves, and buttons down the front.  However, many style options exist.  Women's tops are more than just shirts.  Tops include tees, sweaters, hoodies, etc.

Women's tops are commonly printed with a wide variety of designs.  You can find floral, stripes, novelty, polka dots, animal prints, etc.

Textile printing is the process of applying color to fabric in definite patterns or designs. In properly printed fabrics the color is bonded with the fiber, so that the print design on the fabric is more resist to washing and friction.  With some textile printing techniques, the ink bonds better with the fabric than with other techniques.  For example, reactive dye printing will bond better with the fiber than pigment printing.

Ladies tops can have print designs created by many different print methods.  The shirt can have the printing done at the fabric stage of production or the shirt can have direct printing after the garment is sewn.

Women's t-shirts are commonly screen printed.  Allover floral prints (and other all-over prints) are often done with roller print techniques.

Digital fabric printing is the process where you can print digital files onto the fabric. A digital printer does the printing on the surface of the fabric through a state of the art Drop on demand Head Technology which sprays water based inks on the surface of the fabric on the design area with the fabric.  Digital textile printing is described as any ink jet based method of printing colorants onto fabric. Most notably, digital textile printing is referred to when identifying either printing smaller designs onto garments (T-shirts, dresses, promotional wear; abbreviated as DTG, which stands for Direct to Garment) and printing larger designs onto large format rolls of textile.  Learn more about direct to garment printing.

• Learn more about textile printing for the apparel industry.

You will probably find the following pages of our ladies clothing guide to be helpful.

Women's Printed T-shirts

Women's Printed Shirts

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