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How to Print on Demand Socks-Custom 360 Digital Printed Socks from China

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Custom 3D Digital Printed Socks from China？

Nowadays, personalized printing socks are very popular with many young men because of its abundant patterns. Moreover, the profit margin for 3D printed socks will be about 20% higher than traditional socks.

One of our cooperated factories, the top 5 sock factory in China, is equipped with 3D printing machine at the end of 2017. If you want to customize 3D printed socks, we, Jingsourcing, can help you. And we can offer you,

  • Very competitive factory price
  • Lower MOQ than traditional knitting socks
  • Complete sample-making within one day
  • Good quality & nice after-sales support

How to Print on Demand Socks-Custom 360 Digital Printed Socks from China

No matter you want to print stars’ photos, sci-fi characters, landscape painting with complex color, portrait or your pet’s photo on the socks, 3D digital printing technology can make them all into reality. Moreover, with 3D digital printing, the pattern appears vivid just like the real. If you want to present a whole pattern through a pair of socks naturally, 3D digital printing technology can also make it come true easily.

In recent years, personalized socks are becoming more and more popular with young people with big annual sales of about ten billion pairs. So you may earn your first port of gold by selling 360 digital printing socks.

I will tell you practical knowledge about 3D digital printing socks in my today’s post.

  1. Three main sock decoration ways
  2. Seven steps to customize 360 digital printed socks
  3. Four advantages for customizing 360 digital printed socks

1. Three main sock decoration ways

To help you have a clear understanding of the differences between 3D printing and the other two decoration ways, I will introduce 3 main sock decoration ways first before analyzing 3D digital printing technology.

Jacquard fabrication

In fact, Jacquard fabrication doesn’t belong to the printing technology range. It is concave and convex pattern made of woven fabric interlaced with longitude and latitude, which is woven during the weaving procedure. In fact, it is the most traditional sock decoration way.

Dye sublimation

Dye sublimation can be mainly divided into 3 steps.

First, you need to print the sublimation pigment inks with the adjusted color on the heat transfer sublimation paper through some printing machine like etching press or offset press.

Then turn the printed sublimation paper upside down on the socks and put them on the heat-transfer machine.

In the end, through overheat and compress, the pigment inks on the sublimation paper will be through gasification and fumigation process. Then the pattern will be printed on the sock successfully.

360-Degree Printing/3D Printing

In my today’s post, I will introduce 360-Degree printing method, which is the most advanced printing method nowadays. Digital heat transfer is a digital printing technology based on the traditional sublimation thermal transfer. And it completes patterns printing in the form of non-plate printing.

The following picture is the 3D seamless digital printing machine. And the patterns can be printed on socks seamlessly with the 360-degree rotation of the machine’s sleeve.

Digital printing technology supports digital design, and color measurement, color matching, printing are all completed through computers. So the color types can reach 16.7 million kinds theoretically.

And digital printing won’t have the chromatography restriction which is the typical characteristic of traditional textile printing and dyeing. Besides, digital printing technology is advantageous incomparably in printing some patterns needing high precision such as color gradient, moire, etc.

Noteworthy: 

  • Dye sublimation’s requirements for sock materials:the material must be with high temperature resistance, 100% polyester, or with high polyester content(65% polyester /35% cotton，80% polyester/20% cotton，95% polyester/5% polyurethane).
  • 3D digital printing’s requirements for sock materials: 100% cotton, ramie, cotton-polyester and cotton-ammonia with high cotton content.

2. Seven steps to customize 360 digital printed socks

Step 1: prepare blank socks

Generally, a factory can’t support blank socks and printing patterns at the same time. So you should let a hosiery factory produce blank socks first.

Step 2: prepare and design the printing pattern of the socks

3D printing technology can support many complex patterns’ printing and print on demand socks. You can print any life element. For example, I want to customize a pair of socks with a Jingsourcing logo. It’s very easy, and I just need to design a pattern picture according to the factory’s requirement for the format and size.

Step 3: import the print pattern picture into the computer, and print it on the socks

When you walk into the digital printing workshop, you can notice that the operators skillfully import the printing design into the computer, put pure white socks over the 3D sleeve. Then any complex pattern can be presented on the socks within a few minutes just through one-click printing. 

Step 4: after completing printing, the socks need the solid-color process in the drying oven at high temperature.

You may notice that the pattern’s color on the socks appear very light after printing, which is different from the original printing design manuscript. Actually, it is a common phenomenon. The color will be dark after the solid-color process.

The pattern will appear real just like the printing design manuscript after dry and bake at a high temperature.

Step 5: fix color through fixing agent

Soak the sock in the water with dye-fixing agent to fix color further. But the step is just applied to cotton socks, Polyester socks can skip the step.

Step 6: put the sock into the drying oven again to strengthen color fastness 

After completing the process of soaking in fixing agent, put the socks into the drying oven to dry and fix the color again.

Step 7: sew the socks in the toe opening

It is easy to produce a pair of 3D printing socks. What you need to do is just to prepare a picture and a pair of blank socks. You can design the pattern according to your preference.

Compared with the traditional knitting socks, 3D printing sock is more colorful, personalized, and comfortable. And it is seamless without any redundant threads.

After learning how to print the pattern on the socks by means of 3D printing technology, let’s come to learn the advantages of customizing 3D printed socks.

3. Four advantages you should know for customizing 360 digital printed socks

3D printing socks have stronger color stability

In fact, many people have such a question: if the complex and colorful pattern is completed through digital printing, is it easy to fade? Actually, you needn’t worry about the problem. After finishing digital printing, the socks are very stable in chemical properties through fixation for three times (Step 4-6), so there is no fading problem at all.

Shorten the production time for making a sample greatly

Compared with Jacquard fabrication, 3D printing technology gets rid of many complex procedures such as selecting yarns and sub yarns, dyeing, making patterns, etc. So 3D printing technology can finish sample making just within one day. But jacquard fabrication needs 3 days.

When compared with Dye sublimation, 3D printing technology needn’t conduct many time-consuming processing steps such as plate-making, printed films, etc.

Low MOQ for customizing

It usually has lower MOQ for customizing 3D printing socks, an order of 200-300 pairs can be accepted, which is very different from the MOQ for traditional customization socks.

So 3D printing technology can meet small businessmen’ high requirements for customizing socks in small quantities well.

Higher profit margin

As a kind of labor-intensive product, the biggest advantage of traditional socks is the cheap price. However, 3D printing takes personalized customization as its market breakthrough point, and its profit can reach over 20% higher than ordinary socks. So 3D printed socks are a product worth trying.

Finally

The factory I visited is a professional sock manufacturer established in 2001, which is one of the factories we have long-term partnerships with. It is equipped with advanced socks knitting and printing machines. Many famous brands like Unique, Champion, SKECHERS, FILA, Hush Puppies have a long-term business relationship with them.

If you want to custom 3D printed socks from China, feel free to contact us.

Hi, I’m Annie Ma, I have been in the field of socks since graduated from college. China produces 90% of the world’s socks. I was lucky enough to have worked in one of the top3 sock factories in the world and the largest sock trading company in the world.

I used to work with big, world-class retailers like Uniqlo, Puma, and Skechers. I joined Jinsgourcing aiming to help small and medium-sized businesses to produce socks with the first-class quality.

Delicacy2022-12-09T09:45:52+08:00

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Socks with a logo to order

The demand for originality and individuality has made logo socks a fashionable and stylish accessory. Today in the store you can freely buy children's, men's and women's socks with an original slogan or emblem of world brands, but many companies aimed at promising development prefer to use this method of promotion and advertising exclusively for their brand or products. In this case, socks with a logo are made to order.

Modern technologies make it possible to apply the logo on hosiery in different ways. The most durable way is to knit an image. This technology allows you to perform a variety of prints anywhere in the socks, but the manufacturer will only work with a very large order, because the entire production line will be involved and it is necessary to reconfigure the equipment. Therefore, sublimation and thermal transfer printing of logos, slogans and prints is a publicly available way to give originality to socks and, most importantly, this solution is suitable for working with one product, as well as for several dozens.

Technical details

When an order comes up, an artistic concept is discussed with the client and a layout is created based on it. For maximum readability and visual perception of a symbolic sign or slogan, it is important to choose the right font size and color scheme. Sometimes, to create contrast, the shade of corporate colors is changed, in cases where this is fundamentally impossible, a shadow or glow effect is used.
Use cases for
The textile industry produces socks in an incredibly diverse range:

- children's, women's and men's;
- summer, winter and demi-season;
- cotton, polyamide, wool, polyester;
- openwork and with an elongated elastic band;
- short, long and medium;
- smooth and terry.

It is rather difficult to list all existing hosiery. But all of them can be decorated with a non-trivial print, corporate slogan, call to action or emblem. The main thing is to approach the issue from a marketing position and formulate the order correctly. In this case, any socks can be used as:

— corporate gift. Employees will be happy with it and will be able to flaunt it at home, at work and on vacation. You can even add the names of top managers and heads of departments to the logo, which will amuse the team, for example, when conducting team games or seminars;
is a pleasant surprise. The case when a promotional gift is a nice little thing. When ordering, it is worth considering the target audience of customers;
- part of the staff uniform. Visitors will be pleased to see employees of sports clubs, private kindergartens, medical centers, clinical laboratories in original branded socks. This decision increases corporate solidarity and demonstrates the success of the company.

In addition, depending on the concept, prints and images are applied to the toe in the foot area, the elastic on the side, toe, heel or on the leg.

Men's socks

Men's socks are perhaps one of the most demanded products in the clothing and footwear category. According to the most conservative estimates, each man buys at least 20 pairs every year. Modern models are made from cotton or bamboo fiber with synthetic additives: polyamide, elastane, polyester. Additives improve the fit of products, increase wear resistance, increase strength and hygroscopicity.

Our offer

The Ivteks37 men's socks store offers a huge selection of products for every taste:

  • The store's assortment includes classic black plain socks for any occasion and options with a small pattern on the leg. For summer time, gray, beige or white socks are perfect.
  • An integral part of the modern men's wardrobe in the last few years are cropped socks and cotton footprints, presented in our catalog. These models are designed to be used with summer shoes: sneakers, loafers, espadrilles. Short socks and footprints are available in black, white and grey.
  • Socks with funny prints have also become part of the men's wardrobe - for those who are not afraid of experiments. In a modern casual style, dark socks with a colorful print are quite acceptable even at business meetings. On our site you will find a lot of socks with a funny print. We also advise you to pay attention to thematic series.
  • For the coldest days of the year, the store offers terry and wool options. Cotton socks with a terry trail can be worn with boots in urban conditions, woolen models can be used for fishing or hunting.

Pricing features

The store offers goods in several price categories. Socks at low prices are products of the economy segment, characterized by a low density of weaving. Products of high density and strength, made of high quality materials, belong to the luxury and premium segments. These socks usually cost more, but also last longer. All products are sold in packs of three, six and ten pairs - this allows us to provide low prices for our customers.

Our offer

You can buy men's socks in Moscow and other Russian cities in our online store. Delivery by transport and courier services, Boxberry delivery service or Russian Post is available for buyers. The prices on the site are focused on the retail buyer. To buy men's socks in bulk, contact the store managers through the contact form on the website or by phone. You can also use the form for uploading goods from the site to a convenient price list.

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