What do you think is best for printing intricate designs with many colors on tees?... Screen Printing? DTG? TELL ME WHAT YOU USE....AND WHY DO YOU PREFER THIS METHOD?....THANK YOU!
from whta i have heard printing a design with many colors is not such a good thing with screenprinting cause you have to setup a diff screen for each color, which i guess becomes quite 'complicated'. but many someone can tell you from experience
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Dtg ,which I dont have. And with dtg you still have limitations. Now what I do have is sublimation for the difficult colors.I dont know anything about Corel and other software, but I do have them. So I found that sublimation feels like silkscreen and gives brilliant colors.
We screen print everything. We prefer to have full control over everything from the quality of art development to the quality of the burned screens and texture and line up of the finished image when printed. I'm sure heat press and all those other options may be easier but we like the attention to detail required to do it with screen printing...call me old school but i like the feeling of producing a hand crafted art form.
What do you think is best for printing intricate designs with many colors on tees?... Screen Printing? DTG? TELL ME WHAT YOU USE....AND WHY DO YOU PREFER THIS METHOD?....THANK YOU!
A lot depends on the design itself. For something like lace, the film for screen printing can be created as line art, rather than as a halftone.
Text can easily be screen printed down to 8 point type.
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I wonder about the 8-point type. I have had designs printed by several local screenprinters and a national online service, and did not achieve sharp lettering by anyone. Is this the nature of the medium, as one shop explained? I picked up a Nice Collective tee in Barneys in NY recently, which sells for $80, and was amazed to see how sharp white 8-point or even smaller type came out on a dark tee. Does that mean it wasn't screenprinted, or do such clothing lines have access to special screenprint houses?
[quote=speedypick;275248]I wonder about the 8-point type. I have had designs printed by several local screenprinters and a national online service, and did not achieve sharp lettering by anyone. Is this the nature of the medium, as one shop explained?quote]
No, that's not so much the nature of the medium as the nature of people who are either incompetent or lazy. It does depend on the font style to some degree, and the fact that you're printing on a texture vs. flat stock has a bearing on it, but sharp 8 point text is possible. Printing light ink on dark shirts gets a little harder, especially if you have to underbase.
Screen Printing Intricate Designs... 
