Digital Textile Printing Services – Bespoke Fabric Solutions from Friedmans

Our Digital Textile Printing Process

At Friedmans, our digital textile printing services combine cutting-edge technology with decades of textile expertise to deliver premium-quality results. From initial concept to final production, we provide a seamless, efficient process designed to bring your fabric designs to life with precision and vibrancy.

Using state of the art digital printers and colour-managed workflows, we print directly onto a wide range of stretch fabrics including Lycra, mesh, and other performance textiles. This method allows for exceptional detail, colour accuracy, and consistency across short or large production runs.

Whether you're looking for bold, fashion-forward prints or intricate custom designs, our digital textile printing services ensure your vision is realised in the highest quality, every time.

Why Digital Textile Printing

Digital textile printing services are at the heart of everything we do at Friedmans. Over the years, we’ve refined our processes to offer our customers the very best in speed, creativity, and quality - all under one roof, right here in the UK.

Digital printing gives you the freedom to bring even the most detailed and vibrant designs to life, without the long lead times or limitations of traditional methods. Whether you're developing a full-scale range or testing a new concept, our in-house team ensures your vision is printed with care, accuracy and consistency.

We work closely with fashion brands, costume designers, sportswear manufacturers and creatives of all kinds, helping them push the boundaries of what’s possible on fabric. Our digital textile printing services are fast, flexible, and eco-conscious, helping reduce waste and produce exactly what you need, when you need it.

Print Bases for Digital Fabric Printing

Our print bases are developed with care and experience, tailored to suit the unique needs of industries such as fashion, dancewear, activewear, swimwear, and more. Whether you’re after bold colour payoff, fine detail, or high stretch recovery, we’ll recommend the perfect base to suit your project.

We specialise in digitally printing onto a wide range of performance textiles, including:

• Lycra – ideal for sportswear, swim, and fashion
• Net – breathable, lightweight with a floaty drape perfect for layering
• Velvets & Shiny Finishes – for statement pieces
• Non-Stretch bases- from evening wear to furnishing fabrics

And many more fabrics, all available in-house.

Every base we offer has been thoroughly tested for compatibility with our digital textile printing process, ensuring vibrant, long-lasting results that perform as beautifully as they look.

Not sure which fabric is right for your project? Our team is happy to advise.

Benefits of Digital Fabric Printing with Friedmans

When you choose Friedmans for your digital textile printing services, you're choosing speed, flexibility, and a team that truly understands fabric and print. Here's how we make your experience seamless:

• Fast turnaround on sampling orders

Quickly bring your designs to life and make confident decisions with our rapid sampling service.

• Extensive range of base fabrics in stock

A wide selection of high-quality stretch fabrics available immediately for printing — no delays, no minimums.

• Daily dispatch from our UK facility

Reliable, efficient shipping means you get your orders on time, every time.

• High-capacity digital printers

We can handle everything from one-offs to large production runs, with vibrant, consistent results.

• Blind shipping available

Discreet, white-label fulfilment for trade customers - ship directly to your clients with confidence.

• Customer visits always welcome

We love to meet our customers. Whether you're new to digital printing or an industry pro, we’re always happy to host you at our Manchester HQ.

Ready to get started?

Let us know how we can support your next project with our digital textile printing services.

Tel: +44 (0)161 975 9002

Email: info@friedmans.co.uk

Q. What fabrics can you print onto? A. We specialise in printing onto polyester / elastane (lycra) blended fabrics. We use fabrics with high elastane contents giving excellent stretch, shape regain and performance properties.

Q. What is the cost of printing? A. The price depends on the fabric quality you choose, quantity ordered and ink coverage of design. Please contact us for a quotation.

Q. What file types can you accept? A. We can accept files in TIF, PSD, AVA or JPG format. Please contact us for further clarification.

Q. What resolution should I create my design in? A. Repeating tile files should be a minimum of 180dpi and a maximum of 300dpi at the desired print size. Please contact us for further clarification.

Q. How will you colour match my design? A. For our Print from File service we won't colour manage your files, we put you in control. For our other print services you can share a hard copy colour example or choose from our colour palette.

Q. Do you have a minimum or maximum production order for bespoke printing? A. We print from one metre to thousands of metres.

Q. What are your lead times? A. Depending on the printing schedule we can generally produce a sample within 3 days. For production meterage most jobs can be completed within 2 weeks.

Q. Can I supply my own fabric for you to print on? A. Yes, subject to surcharge, certain terms, conditions and testing fabric for print suitability.

Q. How can I send my file to you? A. The best way to send us files is through our WeTransfer page. Click the button below, attach your file and upload.