Selection Of Printing Technology In T-Shirts

Tee design techniques and printing Process Selection Now many websites or groups are designing their own T-shirts as meeting clothes. Here are the design techniques of T-shirts and the selection of several printing processes.

First of all, before designing a T-shirt, you must find out what kind of printing process your T-shirt should be finished with. This is very important. Different printing processes have different designs.

1、 Printing process

　　 T-shirt There are basically three types of printing, screen printing, transfer printing and hand painting. Screen printing is the most widely used T-shirt printing. 90% of T-shirts bought in stores outside are screen printing. The screen printing technology is relatively complex, mainly including design, film production, print, printing and drying. Silk screen color printing, simply speaking, is that if the design of a T-shirt has three colors of red, yellow and blue, it needs to print three versions, one version for each color. However, it is a little different from the CMYK printed on the screen. Most of them are spot color printing in China, and it is difficult to control the superposition of CMYK dots on the T-shirt printing. Transfer printing technology is a popular printing technology in recent years. The principle is to first print (print) the pattern on transfer paper, and then print the pattern on the T-shirt fabric through high temperature and high pressure. Compared with screen printing, transfer printing has the advantages of fast, convenient and vivid colors, but also has the disadvantages of relatively low color fastness and high cost of mass customization. If you just want to design a unique T-shirt, you can consider printing the design and then transferring it to the T-shirt. There are many online tutorials, and I won't repeat them here. The last kind of hand-painted T-shirts, most of which are now hand-painted by ink-jet painting, of course, many of which are painted by strokes, usually using acrylic pigments and spin The cost of dyes and hand-painted T-shirts is also relatively high, and no one can guarantee that everything is the same. Compared with the above three technologies, if there are only a few pieces of your design to be printed, you can choose heat transfer printing. Now a piece of heat transfer printing paper costs 5 to 10 yuan. Many cities use small shops that do heat transfer printing. You can ask about the price. If you want to make dozens or hundreds of pieces, you'd better choose screen printing. The larger the printing volume, the cheaper the plate making fee will be for each T-shirt.

2、 T-shirt design

The design of T-shirts can be simply understood as graphic design. Generally, the software is commonly used graphic design software, such as photoshop, CorelDRAW, etc. Photoshop is a bitmap design, CorelDRAW is a vector file, and the choice of bitmap or vector depends on your design pattern requirements. If it is some line draft or color block, text, try to use vector, Because photoshop often appears jagged when it releases film. The following are some points to pay attention to when designing.

1. Try to avoid particularly large color blocks, especially at the chest. Large color blocks, whether you use glue or ink for printing, will make the printing position airtight when sweating.

2. T-shirt printing has three positions: front body, back body and cuff to avoid your pattern from armhole to shoulder, because most of the small batch of printing is garment printing, and it is difficult to print these positions with seam seams, and also can not print well.

3. If you choose screen printing, you should control your color. The more colors you have, the higher your cost will be. Find a good balance between your design and cost. 4. For screen printing, avoid using color gradient, because the gradient printed is very different from that displayed on your screen. After all, printing on fabric is different from printing on paper. 3、 The fabrics of T-shirts are pure cotton and polyester cotton. Polyester cotton has a thick hand feel and is very soft, but it will be stuffy and cheaper to wear. Needless to say, the advantages of pure cotton, if the budget allows, still choose a pure cotton T-shirt. The T-shirt fabric also has a gram weight, which is different from the cotton yarn. The gram weight is generally between 160g and 200g. If it is too thin, it will be very transparent. If it is too thick, it will be hot. Generally, 180g weight is preferred. The number of counts is generally 21 and 32 Cotton fibre The higher the average length, the softer it will be. The veil is divided into ordinary yarn, semi refined yarn and refined yarn. The surface of ordinary yarn fabric will be rough, especially the dark fabric will have white yarn spots. The surface of the fine yarn fabric is clean and soft. The price difference between the good and bad T-shirt fabrics is relatively large, so the other party must provide a sample of the T-shirt before customization. Finally, I would like to remind you that the collar is also very important. A good collar must be added with spandex silk, which will be more elastic. Many people have seen T-shirts that fall off after washing the collar several times, which is why the spandex silk is not added or added less. In addition to the rib collar, the T-shirt also has a overlock collar made of the T-shirt's own fabric. This kind of fabric is usually very thick, usually a long sleeved T-shirt.