Custom T Shirt Printing Techniques and Secrets Unveiled!
By: Seomul Evans
Submitted: 2012-01-10 21:24:05 | Word Count: 637
Digital printing is the most advanced t-shirt printing process these days. This printing process can be used to print text, pictures or images, graphics, and clip-arts onto t-shirts. A lot of businesses have ventured into this favorable aspect of the market, so as a consumer you won't have problems finding a company who can print your custom-designed shirt for you.
Some of the newer companies now use digital printing for custom t-shirts. To do this, thy use a transfer paper with the design and it is pressed on to the t-shirt to transfer the design with the use of a pressing machine. Since there are many colors around, the shirts also have different requirements. For example, there are white shirts and those with lighter fabrics while there are also darker fabrics. These two types of fabrics should be printed on differently.
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Not all custom t-shirt manufacturers offer the same level of quality. One major difference in the print quality lies in the paper that is used. The more advanced t-shirt printers require commercial grade paper instead of ordinary transfer paper to be used, and the image is transferred to the shirt through a heat press process. Better quality printing can give you impressive printouts that last for a long time even with frequent wash.
The heat transfer method is just one of the many ways to print images on custom shirts. And like all the other methods, the heat transfer method does have its advantages and disadvantages. For the advantages, the heat transfer method is best for printing t-shirts with exclusive or unique designs. This means you are only making the shirt once and not mass-producing it. This is an advantage because you can get unique and one-of-a-kind t-shirts without having to meet any minimum shirt number set by the printers. If you just need one shirt, you can get just one shirt.
The heat transfer method or digital custom t-shirt printing is also advantageous because it can transfer images in full color. Since the printers are inkjet or laser printers, you can use a full color design or designs with as many colors as you want. Then the shirts will be printed with exactly the same design, with all the colors captured, including all the gradient levels. While other t-shirt printing methods only allow you to print in solid colors, t-shirt printing through heat transfer allows you to do color blending and be as creative as you can be.
The digital t-shirt printing method is also easy to do since you do not need to make special preparations beforehand. The steps are so simple. Just get a design or image you want to print on a custom shirt, flip the design so it will be on the right side when you print it on the shirt, then position the paper with the design as well as the t-shirt to be used. After that, all it takes is one press of the "print" button.
There is, however, one disadvantage. The digital t-shirt printing method does not have a white color. This is not a problem if you are printing on a white shirt. But if you need to print on darker fabrics or, say, a yellow or a red shirt, and your design requires a white portion, then this means the white portion will simply turn to yellow or red. Good thing there are special transfer papers that can do the trick.
Customized t-shirts are useful and efficient ways of publicizing your business as well as all your products. If you want to have them and keep them for a long time, get them made using the digital t-shirt printing process by a company you can trust. You should also wash them properly, preferably with the inside out and by hand-washing, so as to protect the design.
