Direct to Tshirt printing
Posted on November 19, 2008
Filed Under Business |
Printing t-shirts using Direct to
Garment (DTG) printing, the process of printing to cotton based fabrics (i.e. t-shirts)
using a large format inkjet printer, is far superior to screen printing, the
process of pressing inks into fabric through a stencil. DTG t-shirt printing is
more environmentally than screen printing. DTG uses water-based inks to
printing directly onto clothing.
Printing them yourself is done
with heat applied transfers. In my experience they are hard to do right at home
with an iron. You really need a heat press which is much more expensive than
just designing the shirt online and having someone else print it
professionally.
The first thing you’ll want to
think about is if you’d like a slogan, a slogan with an image, or just an
image. The pricing of custom t-shirts is usually based on how many colors the
design you come up with. If you just have text with 1 color, it is way cheaper
to print than say a photographic image. So if you are choosing to add an image,
you’ll want that image to be as few colors as possible, unless you are ready to
spend a lot.
Once you know what you want the shirt to say, you’ll want to start playing with
fonts. Font selection can really improve the way the t-shirt looks. You want to
choose something that is easy to read unless your goal is to have people
staring at you for a while with a confused look on their face. Bolder fonts of
course will print better, especially on darker colored tees. A custom tee with
text that matches the graphic will be the best. So for example, you might want
to pick a techno looking font for a shirt you are going to make about clubbing.
Or you might want a computer font for a technical joke. The font selection for
your idea is very important.
Once the shirt arrives, you are
now ready to show off how witty you are. You can get hooked on making custom
t-shirts, as all you may be the envy of all your friends with your intellectual
prowess being shown on your chest. Wear your design with pride and get ready
for the compliments!
We use a technique called DTG
(direct to garment printing). There are a few companies beginning to specialize
in this technology now and it’s advanced at an amazing pace over the past few
years. Without wanting to put too fine a point on it (and I am over-simplifying
here so apologies to the makers and inventors of the machines), it’s
essentially ink-jet printing for fabric. And it has some great advantages over
screen printing for us particularly.
DTG printers are garment printers
which, are at the very basic level , an ink jet printer usually based on an
Epson printer principle and they work in the same way as the one that sits on
the desk printing invoices. A tray holds a platen onto which the t-shirt is
placed and which then moves under the print-head similar to the way paper moves
through a printer.
Resource box: http://www.directtogarmentprinting.co.uk/
About the author
Jahir kamal is a t-shirt designer and connoisseur. He
designs Custom
T-Shirts for http://www.directtogarmentprinting.co.uk
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