Maybe this will help it's a chart i made up for my customers to give them an idea what ink colors will print on certain shirt colors.
See in the photo i have the same graphic printed on different shirt colors. The basketball player's uniform has white areas for the "inside area of the shirt" and on the "sides of his pants". Look at each shirt color and see how those areas are the actual shirt color because the Brother DTG doesn't print white ink. This is the same for those that use inkjets, laser printers, etc. to print transfers (unless the printer can print white ink) then these areas that are white in the design will be the color of the shirt.
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6.1 oz T-shirt Color Chart
Below is a list of the most common Shirt Colors. We don't offer all these available color at our "DIGITAL" store due to how the ink colors print on them. Please refer to the color shirt you are considering and see if the ink colors you want have an X indicating they will print well on that garment color.
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- PHOTOS: If the design has a photo we will only print the design on White or Natural Shirt Colors
- WHITE IN DESIGN: The process we use to print shirts at the digital store doesn't offer white ink therefore we can't print CERTAIN INK COLORS on "Dark Shirts" and if a design "MUST" have white in it "PLEASE CHOOSE A WHITE SHIRT".
The photo below shows how a design that has "white area in it" (the player's top and side of pants) and how those area look when printed on various shirt colors.
So all said if "white" is not important in your design feel free to choose a "colored" shirt. If you must have a photo in your design or want the white areas "WHITE" then choose a white shirt.
* means that the fabric has specs in it and they show through noticably the ink colors
Note: Anvil Brand t-shirts were use to compile this chart