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Discharge printing involves dicharging (or removing) the dye in a textile fabric. You could simply leave the resulting natural (pre-dyed) color of the fabric as your print or you could print a color on the natural color fibers. Your printing options include printing a discharge underbase and overprinting with 301 Series water based or conventional plastisol inks. You can also mix pigments with discharge ink to discharge the fabric dye and leave your desired ink color in its place with one easy step!

The advantage to discharge printing is the resulting soft hand on dark garments. You can easily achieve soft, bright prints on darks without flashing! Perfect for high fashion tees like American Apparel™.

The discharge binders below are the base (or main part) or the ink. They are then mixed with discharge agent (aka. Paralite) to activate the discharge process in the ink.