subject: Process of T-Shirt Printing: Knowing the Pros and Cons [print this page] Process of T-Shirt Printing: Knowing the Pros and Cons
T-shirt printing has got a whole range of uses. If seen from the business point of view, then they can use the T-shirt printing as the promotional T-shirts so that more people could be able to recognize the logos and slogans of the company. Sports teams are using this process so that each and every member of the team could have the matching shirt. Custom t-shirts are considered to be the best way to express the sense of style and also to wear the garment which nobody else is wearing. There are many people who are interested in customizing their garments and this article deals with some of the ways for T-shirt printing with respect to their pros and cons.
Screen-printing or the silk-screening is considered to be the oldest method of garment printing which is followed from the ages. In this method, a blank T-shirt is taken and it has to be stretched across a rigid frame along with a stencil of the chosen design and the design is placed according to the position selected. Then the screen goes on the top and ink is applied by the process of squeezing over the desired area. If in case, the design is having many colors, then this whole process will be followed for every color which has to be applied.
Another method which is most commonly followed for making the custom t-shirts is the dye sublimation. In this method, a special paper is taken and on that paper a desired image in printed with the help of computer printer. Then the positioning of the paper is done on the garment with the applied heat and pressure. This results into the evaporation of the ink from the paper and its gets transformed to the garment. This is the method which is suitable for transferring the photo onto a piece of garment or clothing.
Another popular method nowadays is the method of direct garment printing. In this method, an inkjet printer is used for printing a photo or an artwork directly onto the garment. This is very much similar to the process of printing the photo from the computer.
