Now many web sites or groups design their own T-shirts serve as
their member clothing or group clothing, here tell us about the
T-shirt design skills and several techniques of printing.
First, before T-shirt design, you need to find out what kind
printing techniques is through to complete printing process,
this is very important.
Different printing techniques need different design.
T-shirt printing basically divided into three types,
screen
printing , transfer printing and hand-painted.
Screen
printing is used mostly in T-shirts printing, the 90%
T-shirts sale in shops are screen-printing. Screen printing
technology is relative complexity, the main steps are design,
the films, copy, printing and drying . Screen chromatic
printing, it is a T-shirt with the logo has the red, yellow and
blue three colors, it needs three printed version, a version of
each color, but compare with the CMYK printing, there is a bit
different, most of the domestic is color printing, it is
difficult to control for CMYK outlets superposition in T-shirt
printing.
Transfer printing technology is a popular printing technology in
the past few years , principle is: first, print the picture to
transfer printing paper, then through the high temperature and
high pressure, printed the logo on the T-shirt fabrics, relative
to silk screen printing, transfer printing has the advantages
with convenient, color lifelike, but also has shortcomings with
color fastness relatively low, cost higher in mass T shirts
manufacture. If you just want to design a unique T-shirt, you
can consider put the design transfer printing to T-shirt , there
are many tutorial on our website, you can read them.
Final kind is hand-painted, the majority hand-painted T-shirt
are inkjet to be completed, of course, also there are many who
use strokes, the colorant is generally propylene colorant and
textile dyes, hand-painted T-shirts cost is relatively high, and
no one can guarantee that each of the paintings produced are all
the same.
Compare the above three techniques, if you just want to print
several for your design, thermal transfer printing is good
choose. Now a thermal transfer printed paper prices in $1 to
2, there are many small shops making t shirts are using thermal
transfer printing, so that, you can ask for a price. If you do
hundreds or thousands of pieces, you may choose Screen Printing,
the more of the quantity, the lower of the plate fee average to
per T-shirts.
www.tshirts-china.com, there are some articles in this website
you can refer to.
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