Uniforms are one of the popular, essential clothing commonly seen in everyday life. The uniform is not only a symbol expressing the spirit of a team and brand but also an outfit that supports human work to become more convenient and effective. Nowadays when the demand for uniforms is increasing, leading to the development, creativity, and non-stop originality in the design of uniform lines. Since then, besides sewing uniform designs, to create your own impression, printing image logos on uniforms has become an essential need to go hand in hand with uniform sewing. Currently, there are many different technologies to implement the technique of depicting images, logos on costumes and all leave their own impressions in the hearts of customers. However, it is because of this variety that many people are confused about whether to choose a beautiful and effective printing or embroidery method.So let’s refer to the article below!

What is a corporate uniform?

Uniforms in general and corporate uniforms in particular are a combination of costumes, clothes, accessories such as hats, shoes, gloves, scarves,… Comes with the same design, style as well as colors, logos, images,… be represented by the collective of the enterprise, thereby contributing to expressing the spirit of the collective and the message that the business wants to send

Should I sew a business uniform?

Whether or not to sew uniforms is a question that causes many concerns for businesses. Depending on the purpose as well as the budget of the business, we have different opinions about sewing uniforms. However, if your business aims to build professionally, sewing uniforms for your business is extremely necessary.

Branding

Business uniforms help users to distinguish and identify the industry that your business is targeting.

In addition, business uniforms also help increase brand recognition to customers

Increase the professionalism of your business

Corporate uniforms are uniform to help increase the spirit of solidarity among employees in the company.

In addition, for some specific professions, uniforms are needed for protection, helping users feel comfortable during work such as Workwear, surgery, medical items,…

What is the difference between uniform printing and embroidery?

Printing method

For the method of printing logos on corporate uniforms, it is considered a popular method, accounting for up to 80% of uniforms supplied and produced in the market.The form of printing is simply understood as using specialized tools – printers and specialized ink colors from which to rely on the existing image design to sketch the images as well as details and motifs printed on the surface of the fabric. With this method, the printer will automatically convert the data connection from the pre-designed image file, then print that image on the surface of the outfit to be printed.

This printing method has many different techniques for customers to choose from such as: screen printing, technical printing, thermal transfer printing or decal printing on shirts.

Embroidery methods

As for the logo embroidery method, the image on the uniform is known to be a method that has appeared for a long time, but before that, this method was done manually, hand embroidery, so it will often be time-consuming and not ensure productivity. Today, science and technology are constantly developing, and specialized machines have been researched to perform this technique, creating quality finished products and achieving higher efficiency and productivity.

The method is done by directly taking the image file on the original file of the computer and then putting that file data into a specialized embroidery machine, normally the embroidery machine will be from 16 to 20 embroidery heads, each embroidery end is equipped with 6 to 15 continuous embroidery needles with a speed of about 1000 stitches / 1 minute. From there, the embroidery efficiency is at the highest level, the finished embroidery products achieve uniform accuracy from color to surface up to 98%.

Should you choose the form of printing or embroidery for business uniforms

The choice of printing or embroidery for corporate uniforms should be based on many factors such as the type of uniform, logo size, image, product material ,… Therefore, to make the right choice, you need to understand the advantages and limitations of each of these methods to balance and make the right choice.

How to print logos and images on products

Advantage:

First of all, this form of printing usually has an extremely quick time to print finished products.
Besides, the cost of this type is much cheaper than embroidery.
In addition, the form of printing logos and images on uniforms is not limited by the color or size of the print, as well as can easily reproduce even complex motifs

More specifically, images used in the printing method are often extremely sharp.
Not only that, but the print form also has the effect of not changing the surface of the costume. The finished product still retains a flat surface, does not appear protruding or rough on the garment.

Shortcoming:

Although possessing many outstanding advantages, the printing form also faces some limitations such as the details of the logo and images are only beautiful as well as become prominent when printed on a light fabric background
Moreover, the product will break the print when the fabric is stretched excessively.
Besides, if a dark color is used, then when performing the printing method, it will lead to a situation where the print easily sinks into the fabric color and does not achieve the desired effect.

In addition, a common limitation of the printing method is that the product is prone to fade color on the printed image if the user does not know how to store it properly.
The last drawback of this method is that the time to use the logo print, the image of the product is very short, in terms of image quality, it will not be as durable as the embroidery method.

Methods of embroidery of image logos on products

Advantage:

One of the outstanding advantages of the embroidery method that few methods can flatten is that the finished embroidery is created sharply, and at the same time brings high aesthetic value
Not only that, the quality of the product embroidery meets the standards, the durability of logo embroidery, extremely high images can last up to many years.

On the other hand, this method has an extremely durable embroidery effect, which does not occur even when subjected to force during use.
In addition, the embroidery also possesses the function of color side without ink smudge or color smudge, fading in the process of washing the product like the printing method.

In particular, the embroidery method also has an outstanding feature that can be done on many different fabrics that are not limited by the material, attributes of the costume or the color of the costume

Shortcoming:

With the method of embroidery logos, images often encounter some common limitations such as it is difficult to embroider details and motifs that are too small. At the same time, there are also limitations when embroidery logos and motifs that mix too many colors and will not achieve the sharpness of the design on the computer.
Not only that, the embroidery method also encounters limitations in color, the embroidery thread is not as diverse and beautiful as the printed form.
In addition, the cost of the embroidery method is considered to be higher than the printing method, while the logo image size is much smaller than the printing method.

Thus, with the advantages, limitations and characteristics of each embroidery printing method in sketching images on costumes, hopefully you will make the right choice for the form of uniform that your business wants to aim for.

What is a corporate uniform?