Screen printing umbrellas

Screen Printing Umbrellas

For brands seeking a highly effective, durable, and cost-efficient method to customise their promotional merchandise, screen printing umbrellas remains a tried-and-true technique. This traditional method, renowned for its longevity and vibrant colour reproduction, ensures your brand message stands out reliably, rain or shine.

How Screen Printing Umbrellas Works

The process of screen printing umbrellas involves transferring an image onto the umbrella’s surface using ink that is pressed through a stencilled “silk” screen. Each screen is prepared with a light-sensitive emulsion, selectively allowing ink to pass through in the areas that form your design. A crucial aspect of this technique is that a separate screen is required for each colour to be printed. This layered approach is what allows for the crisp, distinct colours and excellent reproduction quality that screen printing is known for.

Key Benefits of Screen Printing Umbrellas

Opting for screen printing umbrellas offers a multitude of advantages that make it a perennial favourite for promotional merchandise:

• Over 30 Stock Colours to Choose From: This extensive palette provides a wide range of options to match your brand’s existing colours or to create striking, high-contrast designs. This broad selection aids in quick decision-making and efficient production.

• Excellent Reproduction of Colour Logos: Screen printing excels at rendering solid, vibrant colours with exceptional clarity. This ensures your brand’s logo, with its specific colour values, is reproduced accurately and consistently, maintaining brand integrity.

• Cost-Effective Printing Method: For designs with a limited number of colours, screen printing is often the most economical choice. The efficiency of the process for larger runs makes it a budget-friendly option for effective branding.

• Low Cost Origination: The initial setup costs (origination) for creating the screens are relatively low, making this method accessible even for businesses with tighter marketing budgets.

• Varnish Print is Available: Adding a layer of clear varnish over specific printed areas can create subtle tactile and visual effects. This enhances the perceived quality of the print, making certain elements of your design stand out with a glossy finish.

Design Considerations for Umbrellas

When applying screen printing umbrellas to ready-made stock umbrellas, there are specific design considerations to keep in mind. Typically, the print size using this technique on pre-assembled umbrellas is roughly A4 size. There is also a practical restriction on printing right to the edge of the panels or too close to the seams. This is due to the physical limitations of applying a flat screen to a pre-formed, three-dimensional umbrella canopy, ensuring a clean and consistent print quality.

Unleashing Creativity with Custom Manufacturing Umbrellas

The true power of screen printing umbrellas is fully unleashed when we engage in custom manufacturing. Because we build many of our umbrellas from scratch, we have the unique ability to screen print the panels completely prior to sewing. This pre-assembly printing capability removes the limitations imposed by ready-made umbrellas, allowing for truly amazing effects such as:

• All-Over Print: This enables your design or branding to extend seamlessly across the entire umbrella canopy, covering multiple panels to create a continuous, bold message. Imagine a dynamic pattern or a large, impactful graphic that wraps around the entire umbrella, providing maximum brand visibility from every angle.

• Bold Messages and Branding: Without the restriction of printing to the edge or close to seams, screen printing on pre-cut panels allows for much larger and bolder brand messages. This is ideal for designs that require high impact and expansive coverage, ensuring your brand cannot be missed.

This ability to pre-print panels provides an incredible canvas for your creative vision, ensuring your screen printing umbrellas are not just functional, but also powerful visual statements.

Umbrella Workshop: Your Partner in Quality Customisation

At Umbrella Workshop, we are dedicated specialists in umbrella manufacture and superb customisation. Our commitment to premium quality is unwavering, and all our umbrellas come with a comprehensive 2-year guarantee as standard. This assurance means you can trust that your branded umbrella will stand the test of time, providing reliable utility and sustained brand exposure for years to come. We manufacture a diverse range of popular umbrella models, including robust golf umbrellas, elegant walking umbrellas, and convenient folding umbrellas, ensuring we have the perfect foundation for your unique design vision.

Our extensive capabilities in umbrella customisation go far beyond just screen printing, encompassing a variety of decoration options to truly personalise your branded promotional umbrella. These include:

• Pantone Matching: Ensuring precise colour alignment with your brand’s specific palette for seamless consistency across all elements.

• Digital Printing: Ideal for intricate designs, gradients, and full-colour photographic imagery, delivering crisp and vibrant results where photographic detail is paramount.

• Double Canopy Printing: Providing dynamic branding opportunities by allowing different designs to be applied to both the inside and outside canopies, offering a unique ‘hidden’ reveal and added depth.

Choosing screen printing umbrellas offers a proven, durable, and cost-effective method to amplify your brand. It’s a classic technique that continues to deliver vibrant, long-lasting results, ensuring your promotional umbrella makes a strong impression.