Many people would like to custom bags with logo or make their own bags personalized bags to do wholesale business or retail business, part of them would like to use the bag to advertise, part of them would like to develope their own logo brand as their own career.  But only a few of them know the suitable way to adding logo on their bags, Now we introduce them as completely as we know as below.

1. Silk Print/ Screen Printing

Silk print also called screen printing, which is the most popular and easy operated adding logo way in bags industry. It’s easy to operate and could be use for kinds of size. It is most popular printing method in printing zone.

The screen is made of piece of mesh stretched over a frame, The mesh is often made of synthetic polymer, and frame is often made of wooden or aluminum. The printing principle is to apply ink on one side of the mesh, which already have open space of the logo or image you would like to print, and move the blade to squeeze the ink to leak on the fabric or material where you would like to have.   If we do the fabric printing, the surface of supporting the fabric to be printed is coated with a wide pallet tape to avoid any unwanted ink leaking through the screen or transferring unwanted ink onto the next fabric.

As this way is very easy to operate and print in high efficiency, this way is the most cheapest way and accepted by many customers. This printed bags method could be suitable to use on paper material, fabric material, metal material and also wooden material.

2. Embroidery

Embroidery could be easily to seen on caps, shirts, blankets dresses, kinds of bags. Compared to silk printing logo on bag, the embroidery logo will be looked much more upscale, as it often raised on the fabric and looks strong three dimensional . This adding logo way is also popular for wholesaler who want to custom printed bags nowadays.

Embroidery is a craft of adding your brand using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Nowadays, embroidery is often stitching by computerized embroidery machine, which could make in any color or any graphic you would like. The embroidery work flow is that customer offer brand or logo file, in paper , PDF or entity one, worker make a embroidery pattern with embroidery software according to customer offers. Then they will apply embroidery pattern to the embroidery machine to make the accurate embroidery you would like to add. Machine Embroidery is most typically done with rayon thread or polyester thread, Cotton thread is applied few as it’s easy to break off.

Embroidery is easy to be operated on the fabric or leather material, but not suitable for paper or metal material. As its technical is not so easy as silk printing, and it cost more labor time to do it, its cost is not cheap as silk printing.

3. Emboss and Deboss

Deboss and emboss logo is often could be found on leather or pu leather bags. Embossing is the process of stamping your brand or graphic onto material to create a raised and 3D look logo.

To make a emboss logo , we need create two dies first. One is raised often named male die, the other one is recessed named female die. Dies are often made of copper or brass. When the dies are ready, you could insert it into the clamshell press machine, the machine is heated to a temperature as high as 200 Fahrenheit. Material that is getting embossed is then pressed between the two dies. Whether you would like deboss or blind emboss logo, you could get it in this way.

As the emboss is easy to operate and not cost so much, many people custom handbags likes to apply it to many of genuine leather or pu leather or eva material bags.

4. Hot Stamping/ Foil Stamping

Hot stamping or foil stamping is a printing method which often could see on pu leather or leather bags, its technique likes deboss, but just a little difference is that it need foil paper. Let us find out how it makes as below.

To make foil stamping, we also need make die, but the different is that we only need make one is enough. Make a die according to your brand, and mounted it on the stamping machine, it also need be heated to the same 200 Fahrenheit, then clamp the foil paper between the material and heated die, the die press down on to material, then we could get a foil logo.

Foil stamping logo is often be applied to many famous brand women and man’s brand bag. As its technical, this printing method only could be applied to Leather, pu leahter material, but not suit for fabric bags.

5. Rubber logo

The rubber seals are divided into PVC rubber seals, PVC environmental protection rubber seals, silicone rubber seals (SILICONE rubber seals), Jingzhi rubber seals, paving rubber seals, and epoxy rubber seals;

It is a kind of decoration with “three-dimensional protruding effect”. This product can make each brand more “protruding” and attract more people’s eyes and desire to buy. The rubber stamp can be made in many colors and color performance. Rich in strength and bright colors make your brand a bright spot. The rubberized seal is a crystal clear and transparent three-dimensional seal, giving people a different feel, and can also be used for anti-skid purposes;

How to make a rubber logo? The rubber stamp is a product made by adding liquid material to the finished mold, after a certain amount of heating, baking, cooling, and inverting the mold. It is widely used in clothing, bags, shoes, toys and gifts, and environmentally friendly non-toxic PVC rubber stamps. The shrinkage is good, the color is bright, the silicone has two components, high strength, high transparency, high tearing, soft hand feeling, strong adhesion, it is the best match for many products. There are many uses for rubber stamps, not just for making trademarks. All PVC or accessories are used for rubber stamps. The rubber stamps can be produced in a variety of colors through silk screen printing, and flat and three-dimensional rubber stamps can be produced through mold forming. , Through unreasonable shapes, various shapes can be made, such as cartoons, animals, plants, portraits, geometric shapes and so on.

After the rubber logo is ready, we just need sew it on the bags where you would like to plate. As this way is easy to operate and this is is a cheaper cost than embroidery but expensive than silk prinitng.

6. Logo Metal plate

Logo plate is also be used on bags widely. It makes bags looks more upscale, it is often be applied on genuine leather bags, pu leather bags and high quality material bags.

Making Method

1. Etching way

There are a number of ways to make a logo metal plate, one of the most popular way which most manufacturer used is the etching way. When the master etch the brand plate, they have acid eat away at the metal to form sunken surfaces that show the design you want, the design is then filled in with paint to make the design more prominent.

2. Potosensitized

Another popular way for making metal logo is via photographic or photosensitized process. These logo metal plates are made by actually printing images, letters and such onto metal plates to create a durable yet stunningly vibrant looking metal plate. Since the images are made by embedding the aluminum plates with the colors that are needed to create the look you want, these are highly durable and would not fade.

3. Make brand by stencil

The third popular is making letter of brand directly, metal factory workers could make it via customers design photos and size, then we could apply it directly on the bags。

4. Laser engraving

The fourth popular one is latest technology used for cutting and engraving all kinds of metals, that is laser cutting and engraving, which could create with detailed graphics specifications.

Conclusion

Logo metal plate is higher cost than embroidery , silk printing or emboss, and suitable for using on leather or pu leather. If you would like to choose this one, please be ready money. If you do not want to place on the bag like other famous bag supplier did, you could also make a luaggage tag or puller with your own brand implicitly.

7. Digital Printing.

Digital printing is a method of printing from digital-based image directly on to a variety of material. Compared to silk printing, it does not need make stencil and could printing different colors one time. Workers could operate it easily and individually. This result in quicker turnaround time and lower cost when using digital printing,

Printing methods

1. Decentralized digital printing

Disperse digital printing technology can generally be used for polyester fiber and other chemical fiber fabric printing. Its printing principle is according to the dye is a kind of low water solubility, 50% of its ink is disperse dye ink, it uses the function of dispersant when dyeing, and the micro particles in water are mainly used as a highly developed dispersion learning state management the presence of non-ionic dyes.

2. Reactive digital printing

Reactive dye ink accounts for about 29%, mainly for printing on dry silk and cotton fabrics: reactive dyes are also known as reactive dyes. It is a kind of dye that reacts chemically with fiber during dyeing. This type of dye separation contains genes that can chemically react with the fiber. During dyeing, the dye reacts with the fiber and forms a covalent bond between the two to form a whole, which improves the fastness to washing and rubbing. The active fuel molecule includes two main components: the parent dye and the active group. The group that can react with the fiber is called the active group. At present, it is mainly used in woven and knitted fabrics such as cotton, hemp, and silk, or fabrics with higher ingredients.

3  acid digital printing

Acid dye ink accounts for about 7% of its weight, and is used for printing on wool, nylon and other fabrics. Acid dyes are a type of water-soluble dyes with acidic groups in the structure, which are dyed in an acid medium. Most acid dyes contain sodium sulfonate, which is soluble in water, bright in color and complete chromatogram. It is mainly used for dyeing wool, silk and nylon, but also for leather, paper, ink, etc. Generally no tinting power to cellulose fibers

4  pigment ink digital printing

　 Pigment ink digital printing uses less, and most of them are not used widely in China.

If you would like add logo with image or colors design, digital printing is the best choice for you to choose.

Conclusion

When you decide to choose the digital printing to add your logo, you should consider your material first, and choose the best suitable way.

Final words

The above introduce 7 ways to adding logo ways for people who would like to printed bags with logo, which does not indicate which one is better or not, when you custom baggies just choose it according to your demand.