[mmoguls]

It seems the only objection I get to Roland shirt vinyl these days is that it "just doesn't look like screen printing". It's thin, has great color, and it lasts. But the vinyl lacks a certain something that plastisol has...

But maybe there is a way to affect this within the art using photoshop and or illustrator? Altered settings, special filters or actions that bring us this "effect"?
Text comes out closest to screened, but maybe a texture or ?

I bet someone out there knows, but will they share it?

 

[socceronly]

There just isn't really. I don't think such a 'secret' is lurking out there.

No one is passing one off as the other.

They are just different. They do different things and serve different purposes.

 

[majik122]

I currently use plastisol transfers AND do heat press printed vinyl with a roland printer. The only way I've ever found to make the vinyl look and feel like a screen print is when the design has been 100% white. I find the inks add weight and shine to the vinyl which a screen print simply doesn't have.