Hi, I was looking at these shirts
and wondering how they were printed, screen printing or dtg.
Some designs are very large, with tons of different colors and go over the seams. Is this possible with screen printing? Would it be possible to have 100 or even just 50 of something like this screen printed for 9$ (including an AA or equivalent shirt)?
What do you guys think?
Re: was this shirt made with screen printing or dtg?
I doubt you can make just 100 of these for $9 each on an AA shirt.
This is a 7 or 8 screen job. The screens are huge, looks like 4 feet tall or so. Here are pictures of the printing process Bold is Beautiful - a set on Flickr
Re: was this shirt made with screen printing or dtg?
The "Bold is Beautiful" example is a 9-color design. They say "Nine color softhand", so I'm guessing it's also discharged and uses opaque water-based inks, so that'd be 10 screens. The size of the print is big enough to make me think the screens are probably 23X31 or so, so the screens themselves are going to be expensive. I can get those locally here for $29 each, so there's $290 just for the cost of the blank screens. Add oversized films & process, and you're looking at a fist full of cash for the setup.
Then there's the shirt and the printing.
So, in a nutshell, no, you aren't going to get 50 pieces of that design printed for $9 or probably even $12. In fact, you'll have a hard time finding someone that wants to set up their 12-color auto press for 50 shirts and an even harder time finding someone with a 10-color manual press that will accept 23"-wide screens. So....
All that said, you can lessen the color count and fairly easily find someone to print you an 8-color design that size in 50 or 100 quantity. Still, you'll be lucky to find someone capable of good results who will do it for less than $15 not including the screen charges. That might even be pushing it.
Re: was this shirt made with screen printing or dtg?
first off they did the job on a 8 color press and hand held number 1 screen. second, very little white splatter is on the sleeves, if you left that off you only have a 20"x28" jumbo print. assuming your printer has a 20"x28" platen with the neck line cut out, you have no seams to go over and it would print easy. i didn't notice he said american apparel, that would put the price closer to ten bucks each at 120 pieces(my minimum for contract) with discharge, water base. no screen charges. if you don't have film positives there is a charge for that as film for jumbo prints has gotten very pricey. i'm sure you can find several printers out there that would be close to that price. start with your local printer, he might be all set up to do what you need. stan
was this shirt made with screen printing or dtg? 
That's because the designer of the shirt happens to own gomedia.
