Re--Usable woven shopping bags??

[screenprintguy]

Is anyone printing on these. The ones you see at the check out lines at stores, usually have multi color print, have a fabric feel, but are obviously some sort of polypropylene of some sort.

[cleveprint]

we do not print multicolor on them, but we do print on them just 1/Color. we just use regular plastisol and undercure them to the point where the bag doesnt melt and the ink is dry. thats what our ink supplier told us to do. people tend not to wash these.

[Admiral]

We print on them as bags for the customers order in it with our logo on it. 

We don't do quite a full cure on it because otherwise they would melt and shrink into nothing, but they print great wet on wet (can't flash them obviously).

[screenprintguy]

I wonder if one of those additives like Excalibre sells to lower cure temps would help. We have alot of customers always ask, and the one time we used an asi distributor, they messed it up, cost us the customer's other normal work and in the end found out they went around us and contacted our customer for other promo products. I'd rather give it a try in house and see if it's something worth adding to the mix. Where are you guys buying the blank bags?

Thanks for the info!!

Mike

[mk162]

sorry guys, you are wasting your time printing these yourselves.  I get mine from bullet line for about $.78(a) each with out logo on them as a self promo.

the normal price on them is $1.29(c) with a 1 color imprint.

[screenprintguy]

wow,it's hardly worth the time. How are they reliability and discretion wise?

[royster13]

www.adbag.com I do not use them much, but they have always done a great job....

[Inkworks]

If you do print them a low-temp plastisol will work, or regular plastisol with some nylon additive. Give them as much cure as you can without melting the bags.

[GaryG]

Yeah anything around a buck, ASI.
Proof art, send fax, hand product to client...

[screenprintguy]

Thanks for all the input guys!



Mike

[mk162]

they have 24hr turnaround standard.  the prints are good.  opacity on white isn't perfect, but it's certainly more than passable...i doubt a perfect white on these is worth the time frankly.

drop them a line and order some samples.  I use the Hercules grocery tote.

I have printed 1 order of these and it was a contract job.  I think I charged him around $1.15 each per print.  He would have paid less than the printing i charged if he got them from bullet.