HDB Digital System
HDB Digital System™ Amps Up Hybrid Digital Printing
Hybrid direct-to-garment printing offers today’s garment decorators the ability to fulfill small to medium multi-color print jobs more economically than either traditional direct-to-garment (DTG) printing or screen printing. Hybrid printing combines an inkjet-type printer with a screen printed underbase. The results are clear and crisp images digitally printed onto garments.
Hybrid printing improves production efficiencies and yields significant cost savings. Typically, hybrid printing is up to four times faster than traditional DTG printing and International Coatings HDB inks typically cost a quarter of digital white underbase inks.
International Coatings’ Hybrid Digital Base – HDB Digital System™ – is a complete screen print ink system designed to be used with DTG digital inks. It provides an underbase that allows digital garment ink to be printed faster, and with sharper resolution, better color and wash fastness.
HDB is an easy-to-use 3-component/step system:
- HDB primer coat for either cotton or low bleed, followed by
- HDB Synthesis Receiver Base™ (part A and B), and
- HDB Optimum Clear™
With the HDB Digital System™, digital ink is printed wet-on-wet on the HDB underbase, eliminating the need to flash. The HDB Digital System™ enables digital printing on light and dark garments and provides a vibrant, smooth, and durable finish. The HDB low-bleed system blocks bleed for digital printing on polyester, synthetic and performance fabrics.
