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Originally Posted by GroundsKrew |  | | | | | | | | | Here's a rough sketch of one of the designs. Other than the stripes, I plan on throwing on a logo. You think a regular screen printer can handle this with an oversized platen for just 100 shirts? | |  | |  | |
You want to print on the placket. That will never happen on a belt printer.
You will have a very complicated time even printing
near the placket with screen printing and you want SOLID color all across the bottom of the shirt. You won't be happy with a plastisol print that solid - you want a stained look. Solid stripes will always look ragged at the edges, compared to a design that disguises the fact that there is an edge of the print.
Imagine fish swimming around your waist. You could print the body of the shirt in thirds and have the prints overlap like fingers interwoven. One fish high, one fish low - dove tail. Printing on a platen can only cover about 175 degrees of the body of the shirt so there will always be a gap.
When I printed all over designs, we designed images that were vertical, grassy fields, animals walking, fish, trees. You could always wrap them around the bottom printing in thirds. Stripes never match up especially when you wanted the image to link up with the sleeves.
Alas, I see that pictures is not in your vision or design.
This is the sort of all over printing that needs to be done on cut pieces and then sewn, or you have to find a very willing printer to do all the hand work you require for these shirts.