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Within my home time there is a large demand for pieces of text to be put upon t-shirts, vests and other garments. Although pretty boring a lot of people are asking for them, when I receive my equipment I imagine for a few months I will be making and selling a lot of these.
I have attached a picture below and was wondering if people could tell me exactly how they think these t-shirts where made?
I was thinking its done with vinyl on a plotter cutter... but is the whole thing printed out on one piece of vinyl or is it done in sections?
Thats screen printed ! and I am sure about it....The front panel of the tshirt is printed first using plastisol and then cured (heated) with a hot blower...then its fused in a heat fusing machine to give a smoother feel...Printing the whole area in one go is the best option to get good results....beacuse dark color fabrics(like black) get tinted after fusing leaving a shadow of the region that is fused, so if you fuse the fabric in two parts there would be a color variation between the successive levels of area that are fused
At first i thought maybe it would be screen printed but ive been into the place which creates them and all they have is a computer a vinyl cutter and a heatpress.
I doubt they would order in custom screen printed transfers for each customers different specifications?
Also the tshirts have that rubbery look, just like vinyl. I could only find this one other picture of the tshirts, im going to try find some more tonight so can get to the bottom of exactly how these are made.
But all on one piece of vinyl or done in parts? The design is quite large, is vinyl available in rolls that wide? If so what length do you suspect it is?
But all on one piece of vinyl or done in parts? The design is quite large, is vinyl available in rolls that wide? If so what length do you suspect it is?
thanks for the help guys
The t-shirt vinyl has a backing on it. So it could all be done on one wide sheet and pressed to the shirt (if the heat press is big enough).
If they have a smaller press, it's possible that they did it in smaller sheets.
Definately vinyl. Simple text, crisp lines, dark shirt, shiny surface on the lettering. Vinyl was made for that job.
The color also looks like the neon orange (9930) that Thermoflex produces. The design could be 14" wide or two piece and be cut from a 15" roll. You can get 24" rolls of it too, but the amount of waste on almost any design would be sickening.
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Originally Posted by Fluid
doesnt look that smooth to me. yet the way it is bending does look like vinyl
His first pic is grainy and may be why it doesn't look "smooth".
Looks like stahl's econo cut vinyl to me, look how shiny it looks. I've never had thermoflex plus or multicut look that shiny. That's a perfect example of why I think some people don't like "vinyl" on t-shirts. I bet that is thick and bulky if you was to touch it. BTW, multicut comes in 20" rolls so that would of been done easily in one shot.
How was this t-shirt made? 
