At Banana Moon, we pride ourselves on offering an unparalleled range of unique processes and services that elevate your custom clothing and merchandise to the next level. Our expertise and creativity allow us to bring your vision to life with precision and style.
Whether you're starting a new clothing line, planning merch for your brand, or just unsure how your logo will look on fabric, we’re here to help. Our creative support team offers help at every stage, from artwork prep to garment mockups, ensuring your final product looks just as good in real life as it does in your head.
Established in 1993, we're a family company that has grown from a lifestyle craft business to an agile, responsible and visionary personalised clothing supplier operating from a 10,000 sq. ft purpose-built facility in Yorkshire, UK.
We are so pleased to announce that Banana Moon has been B-Corp certified! This certification acknowledges our continued commitment to people and our planet and we feel extremely happy and proud to achieve B-Corp certification after years of hard work.
As well as the sustainable fabrics used in our clothing, we also decorate the clothing using eco-friendly processes. Our Direct To Garment (DTG) printing is used for a water-based ink print usually covering large areas of a garment or for complex multi-colour artworks supplied by our customers. This print method is in addition to printing you may have seen before called ‘screen printing’. Whereas screen printing is a little more limited in the amount of colours that can be used, you can challenge DTG with logos with as many colours and as much detail as possible and it looks amazing.
We use a brand of machine called Kornit for our Direct to Garment Printers. We believe these are the best and most commercial machines in the world.
Each machine costs well over £200,000, so these are significant investments for any business. The process, the quality and the speed are the reasons we use Kornit, and it helps to separate our DTG printing quality from others.
DTG printing is a waterless process, which doesn’t require high volumes of water in the preparation and clean down process. This is in contrast to traditional screen printing of garments which would include a large amount of spraying and run-off of waste water in the process of creating the screen.
Direct to Garment doesn’t use screens as it prints clothing in the same way an inkjet printer would print a piece of paper at home. You load up the garment onto the machine. Choose the selected design, press print, and the machine prints the ink directly onto the garment. Magic!
By using Kornit machines, it means only Kornit inks can be used in the machines, which we buy direct from the brand. This allows better regulation of the inks going into each of our prints, as Kornit can control the manufacturing process.
The inks used in DTG printing are non-hazardous and toxin free. There are no animal by-products and they are completely safe for infants and babies, as defined by Oeko-Tex 100 safety applications for infant wear, Global Organic Textiles (GOTS-3V), Residues Standard List (RSL) and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists.
It may seem that both print methods compete with each other, but there is a need to have both. Here are our reasons why you would choose DTG printing over screen printing:
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