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July 22nd, 2007 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

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Would a direct-to-garment printer be better than a silkscreening operation?

I'm looking into starting a small t-shirt business. I want to make vintage-style t-shirts. I want to know which would be a less costly/easier printing method, direct to garment printer, or silk screening? I want to make a vintage-style, mostly monotone designs. All of my T-shirt designs are stored on my computer's hard drive. So another question would be, if I go with a direct to garment printer, would I be able to print my computer designs directly onto the shirt? I also want to make it so the shirt doesn't have like, the square border from the picture. If anyone has any experience with this, please help me out!

Hi there - My name is Luke and I'm the Director of Marketing for CSE Graphic Outfitters. We specialize in things like this. We do direct embroidery, screen printing, heat sublimation and customer/stock patches/emblems.

The cheaper way is to press your shirt with heat sub. You print your image on to a special printer paper with a special printer/ink. Most ink jets will work. You take your printed image and lay it out on the shirt. You will need to reverse your image so when you lay it on a shirt it comes our the right way since the ink will be on the top side which needs to be pressed with ink side on the shirt.

You will need something to press the shirt long enough to burn the image. An iron should work but just make sure you have a towel on top of your transfer paper.

Screen printing on your own is going to be a mess not to mention expensive. It will cost you $30.00 for a screen, $10.00 for the squeegee not to mention all of the supplies such as screen cleaning and ink. You will then need to burn your image to the shirt. This is why it's more expensive for screen printing

this is a quick alternative to screen printing but not the best quality.

if you need some shirts made i could give you some special pricing where you could get 100 shirts with the final print (Screen Print) for aprox $5.50 a shirt.

Feel free to email me get in touch with me if you have any questions.

Luke

Office: 913-724-1000 Ext. 123

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