Our main business is rotary screen engraving, and layout and colour separation services to the furnishings, fashion and home decoration, and wallpaper markets We work with several of one of the most popular household name brands. The chances are that somewhere in your house you have something that we have worked on, whether it's wallpaper, the material utilized on your upholstered suite, curtains, or clothing. Simply over a decade ago, we additionally began offering extremely top quality custom product printing and production services, initially on a tiny range of products. This service has actually expanded for many years, to the point that we now offer a large range of premium quality UK made product printing and production, spanning various product types and markets.

Fabric printing has actually been an industry in the UK for a long period of time, and Meshtex have been involved in this industry since the early 70's.

Back then, fabric was printed via display just, either flat silk display, or rotary screen, there was no such thing as digital textile printing in the 70's obviously.
Mimaki Tx1600.
One of the initial digital fabric printers in the UK.

We got involved in digital fabric printing in the late 1990's, however at this point digital was being used mostly for extremely small production, and for sampling, it wasn't yet a commercially viable process, mostly due to the cost of digital fabric printing at that time.

Things have developed for digital printing over the years, and it's now significantly a commercially viable procedure for textiles, with some really specific advantages over display printing.

But the fabric printing market has evolved, and there have become various different kinds of fabric printing companies-- which leads us to the main point of this article, which is the three main things to think about when searching for digital fabric printing companies.