T-shirt Printing San Diego – Sandlgraphicdesign

Posted on July 7, 2010

Visit www.SandLGraphicDesign.com for all your printing needs, located in San Diego, California in vista.  SandL Graphic Design can do you next t-shirt printing, screen printing, digital t-shirt printing, or heat press. 

 

One of the oldest, and still most reliable, ways to print to a t-shirt is the screen printing method. Screen printing is usually the method considered to be of the highest quality by printers and customers. Screen printing requires a great deal of set up and that is why screen printing can sometimes be more expensive than the other methods. With screen printing each color is applied separately and a screen needs to be made for each color as well. The set up time can be longer than the other methods but the results are usually far more durable and attractive than the other methods. Many printers also consider screen printing to be the method that causes the most mess because they are dealing with printing the same image repeatedly but in different phases. After a while the ink starts to get a bit messy. But many printers and customers prefer the screen printing method.Recently there has been another printing method of choice that is challenging screen printing as the method of choice. Heat transfer is becoming very popular and it is because of how easy it is to execute heat transfer printing that is allowing it to become so popular. For the heat transfer method you print the image on a special type of transfer paper and then transfer the image to the t-shirt with heat which seems very self explanatory. It is easy to do and it allows the printer some flexibility with customers as smaller quantity orders can be printed effectively with this method. The underlying problem with heat transfer is that it does not work well on dark shirts as the shirt color usually winds up being the lightest color in the image. If you are trying to print a light image to a dark shirt the results may not be what you were hoping for.Another method of t-shirt printing that is quite popular is the method referred to as Direct to Garment or DTG printing. For this method the entire image is printed directly to the shirt. This method comes out not being as heavy or thick as screen printing, and it can offer the printer the ability to do small quantity orders, but like heat transfer printing the DTG method usually winds up having the cloth being the lightest part of the image and for many customers this is simply not acceptable.T-shirt printing is a complicated art that requires years of experience to properly execute. The method you choose to print the t-shirts with depends solely on the needs and wants of the customer. In order to know which methods apply to which situations you need to be proficient in as many t-shirt printing methods as possible.

 

T-shirt printing San Diego- visit http://www.SandLGraphicDesign.com for your next t-shirt printing, screen printing, digital t-shirt printing, heat press.  We are located at 503 South Santa Fe, Vista, California 92084 in San Diego County or visit us online at www.SandLGraphicDesign.com or call for more details at 760 758 3239.

 

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