vinyl and screen print on same shirt

can you screenprint the back design and just do the actual name in vinyl?

I would either do all designs in plastisol, and the names in vinyl OR, use a transfer vendor (such as TransferExpress.com) who will do name drops on the back design, and do everything in plastisol.

theresaflores said:

can you screenprint the back design and just do the actual name in vinyl?

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The name is nested inside the design so I'd be fooling around with precise registration and then possibly two different colors and textures on the same design. I thought about it but I'm not sure how professional it would look.

deChez said:

I would either do all designs in plastisol, and the names in vinyl OR, use a transfer vendor (such as TransferExpress.com) who will do name drops on the back design, and do everything in plastisol.

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Well there's 110 different girls so I'm not sure name drops would be feasible. I may not get orders for all the girls but even if half the parents order shirts with the girls names on them that would be a lot of work.

Ah yes, I see your dilemma much clearer now.

I would think that combining the 2 methods would work though. Registration might not be as challenging as it seems now. You've probably developed a good eye for one, and for another, since each name is different, 1/8 of an inch is not going to be noticable.

That's a tough call. If Transfer Express can do it, that might be the best option. How intricate is your back design? Front?

We've done orders of over 1000 shirts with vinyl, but they were crazy easy to weed.

We've also quoted jobs that required 45 minutes of weeding for each shirt, and as you might expect, the price was a little high for them. The design for that job will need to be changed to allow for minimum thicknesses for plastisol, which is the option we're looking at now, but they're not customized between individual shirts.

I don't see too much of a problem with vinyl on the back and screen print on the front, as long as they are somewhat similar.

Here's an idea...

What if you deliberately made the individual names a different color? Would that be possible?

How about glitter gold?

Just a thought.

Chani said:

Here's an idea...

What if you deliberately made the individual names a different color? Would that be possible?

How about glitter gold?

Just a thought.

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That's an idea. I'd have to go back to the board and get that approved. I'll see what I can do.

Thanks for the idea. Wish I had thought of it.

I hope it works out for you!

IMHO, if you can't get the buyers to go for a different look/color/glitter/maybe copper I wouldn't chance a slight difference in the shade of yellow/gold between the screen print and the names. Try taking a sample of your vinyl to the printer and tell them they can have the job IF they can make a perfect match and then be sure(or make sure first) that you have enough of that particular vinyl on hand or get enough to be sure you don't need to order more and find that the new vinyl doesn't get a slight variance in color between the batch you have and any new batch the might have at the time you actually are ready for it. Does my rambling get you confused? Sorry. The thing is you want a satisfied customer. Good luck.

You would most likely want to trim the names pretty close so that they don't leave lines in your plastisol.

Ok, I'm looking through more swatches and saw the electric yellow. You can't see in this pic, but This may look good with the athletic gold color.
Since I'll be doing lot's of other shirts using athletic, I ordered 50 yards today.

Ok, I was half asleep when I sent the last post and now I notice my pic didn't come through. Hmmm.

Depending on when the parents turn in their order forms, I may be leaning towards vinyl. Whether I do screen printing on part, or send away for custom transfers, that takes extra time I may not have. Unless I make the prints small for the mens shirts to equal the size for the womens shirts, I would need to have two sizes. I usually like 12" for regular t-shirts but the fitted women's shirts can't fit that size. We'll see. Somehow it all comes together in the end.