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The purpose of this report is to give a basic understanding of the two major methods of printing T-shirts. These two methods are screen printing and digital printing. Screen printing places a screen on top of a T-shirt and then applies ink directly onto the screen. Digital printing first prints the image to transfer paper and then uses heat to bond the image to the T-shirt. Both processes have strengths as well as limitations. The following information should help you determine which process is better suited to your needs. Definitions: Screen Printing is also called silk-screening although the major screen printers no longer use silk to make their screens. The screen acts like a stencil, allowing one colour at a time to be printed onto the T-shirt. If you have a shirt that requires two colours, you will need to produce two separate screens; three colours, three screens, etc. The screens are placed into separate special frames that lock into place above the T-shirt. The ink is applied to the whole frame but it can only get through the open areas. Screen printing uses a spot colour application which means literally, if you need black in one spot and gray in another, you will need two screens. All of the black areas are printed from one screen and all of the gray areas are printed with another. If you want to have a neon purple colour on your T-shirt and the printer doesn’t have that colour, they would order that specific ink colour from his/her supplier. Digital Printing pertains to first printing the image on to a paper with a special coating (transfer paper) and then transferring that image to a T-shirt using a heat press. After pressing, the transfer paper is peeled leaving the image bonded to the T-shirt. Some transfer papers are peeled hot. Others can be peeled cold. Professional digital T-shirt printers use a commercial heat press which is essentially a large iron. The lower table where you would lay the T-shirt is flat and square and has a sponge like surface. The upper plate is the same size as the lower table, however, it is made of metal. It is this plate that heats up. The temperature is set similar to the way the temperature on your oven is set. For pressing T-shirts, it is set to approximately 375 to 400. The exact heat to set the heat press and the length of time required for the press (usually 15 seconds) is specified by the manufacturer of the transfer paper. Buying your own "Iron-On Transfer Paper" and printing your own T-shirts uses the digital printing method. While the printing generally looks excellent, the difficult part is transferring the image to the T-shirt. A home iron will technically work, but the results are not always what are hoped for. When I first began T-shirt printing back in 1995, I used my Epson printer. The image printed beautiful. When I ironed it on to my T-shirt, I spent 11 minutes pressing and keeping the motion constant as was recommended. When I peeled the paper from the T-shirt, some of the ink was still on the paper and this meant that there were flecks of white areas left on the T-shirt. With a heat press, all of the ink is transferred!
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