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How Is The Process Done For a T-Shirt Printer?
By Busy Door Guest Blogger | January 24, 2009
For merchandise and fashion there are mainly 3 particular methods of screen printing employed. For any t-shirt printer, ‘Spot Colour’ printing is the most common and works exceptionally well for a great variety of graphics. The most suitable method used for the printing of graphics that are not photographic in nature is Spot colour printing.
The colours of the inks to be used in the reproduction of the graphic images are usually Pantone specified colours chosen by a graphic designer. In order to isolate the hues of the ink in the image, Pantone coated or noncoated references are selected. Used in publishing, printing and design, the Pantone matching system, is internationally used to identify colors with a unique name and number.
This method of spot colour printing is particularly suited to the printing of branded promotional garments or merchandise where colour identity and uniformity must remain constant throughout a diverse range of products.
“4 Colour Process” is another method of screen printing. This printing process is utilised primarily with photographic designs and sketches comprised of a broad variety of hues, shades and gradations. All magazines and books use this four-color printing process as well.
These inks allow light to flow through and then merge together on white backgrounds to make all the hues and tones of the orginal one. This is of course a rather more difficult process to achieve on a fabric than it is on paper. The methods are pretty similar. The printing that you choose will work only on white articles of clothing and will not show correctly on coloured items. The print set up costs are higher than that of simple spot colour designs and as such only suitable for larger print runs of 100+.
This type of printing is only right for use in print runs of one hundred or more. This is because it simply costs more to set it up. A process called “Simulated Process” is used in cases where garment screen printers copy full colour pictures using coloured cloths. Much like spot colour, used by any t-shirt printer, the art is divided into tones and colours to preserve the essential qualities of the original.
Most t-shirt printers use this method, and it is especially popular when used to copy fantasy and heavy metal album artwork onto shirts to be sold by the band. This, for a t shirt printer is the most expensive. For that reason, it is used entirely on large print runs. This is because it costs more to set up the colour separations, and it takes a greater number of colours to print the pictures.
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