Promotional Sweatshirts Key Terms

Learn promotional sweatshirts key terms

Promotional sweatshirts are a great item to brand your name, whether you distribute them to clients or staff. By familiarizing yourself with promotional sweatshirts key terms, you can find the best value in sweatshirts and the features that suit your needs. This guide can help you decide if screen printing or embroidery is the best choice for your promotional logo. You can also use the information to you choose various fabric finishes, such as sueded or microfleece.

 

Screen printing, or silk screening

Screen printing is a process that forces ink through a finely woven fabric pattern and onto a flat garment surface. There are usually just one or two colors used in the process. Since the finished screen printing sets on top of the fabric, it can eventually crack or wear off, but modern screen printing techniques greatly reduce this problem.
Try: Berda CompuGraphix can do customized screen printing.

Embroidered

Embroidered fleece sweatshirts, created with machine embroidery, can reflect your brand or whatever message you want to get across. Because cost can be a factor, the embroidered area of promotional sweatshirts tends to be small.
Try: See the sample embroidered fleece sweatshirt at 4imprint.

Half-zip sweatshirt

A half-zip promotional sweatshirt has a zipper that runs from the neckline to mid chest. The zipper makes it easier to get the garment on and off. This type of sweatshirt can be a bit dressier than a traditional style sweatshirt.
Try: The Arizona Cap Company offers half-zip promotional sweatshirts.

Microfleece

Microfleece fabric has smaller threads than normal sweatshirt cotton fabric. The tightly woven polyester threads in microfleece are often wind- and water-resistant. Microfleece promotional sweatshirts often have a velvet-like feel to them.
Try: There are several examples of microfleece promotional sweatshirts offered at PromoManagers.

Pill-resistant fabric

Some polyester fibers tend to form small balls, or pills, on spots where the fabric rubs with something else. Pill-resistant fabric doesn't easily get the small balls that can affect the appearance of the garment.
Try: SmartFleece.com has pill-resistant fabric for promotional sweatshirts in a variety of colors.

Sueded finish

Sueded finish promotional sweatshirts have a brushed feel to them that gives the exterior an extra-soft finish. Sueded finish fabric allows for a more supple fit than regular fleece sweatshirt fabric.
Try: You can see an example of a sueded finish sweatshirt offered by Worldwide Products.

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