Silk Screening t shirts is often considered the industry standard when it comes to garment decoration, but this method does have it's limitations.
The main advantage it has over other methods is the ability to print large quantities at a much lower cost. This allows us to print cheap images onto t shirts using this method.
Production in bulk is our speciality and we recommend this method for any large quantity order.
Remember, if you don't know what method to choose, don't worry, just give us a call or send an email, we will always give you our professional opinion.
If you need to decide between the different types of Metallic Screen Printing Inks you can use this as a guide. Metallic Inks Athletic Mirror / Liquid Mirror, Liquid Rich / Athletic Rich, Bright Gold Shimmer, Pale Gold, Silver Shimmer, Liquid Silver, Black Shimmer.
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When a customer asks us to review our screen printing prices, we generally have a good idea, why they are asking. The reason is how we disclose our set-up costs that are associated with the screen printing process, we apply the set up costs for screens into our print pricing, making them seem more expensive. Make sure to compare the prices including everthing.
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Off the edge or over the seams decoration is a fairly new experience in the t-shirt industry. It has been popularised by large clothing manufactures, producing streetwear, surf wear and recently, including brands in the UFC, fight and wrestling cultures. Off the edge can be achieved in one of following ways
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The CMYK process is a method of applying ink based around the colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. The four colours work together to give you an entire spectrum of choices. The printed colour starts to appears as the inks are used to subtract the appearance of the colour white. This process works great for white t-shirts and putting logos on any number of items where the base is white.
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Discharge, also known as "Extract Printing", is the use of a water-based bleaching agent, to remove and deactivate colour dyes used on natural fabrics. The use of this chemical removes any existing pigment from garment fabrics, which in turn allows direct prints onto raw material possible, making this method perfect and ideal for imprinting light coloured inks onto darker coloured fabrics.
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Sim Process or Simulated process, considered to be an advanced screening method, is a unique printing process and film separation that helps create highly detailed custom designs and photo realistic images without using standard CMYK full colour separation.
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Screen decorating onto t-shirts is what we do best. As Australia's most trusted t-shirt printer, we have been in the business of silk screening apparel for more than 20 years and have hundreds of thousands of prints under our belt. Our extensive experience and product knowledge combined with strong customer service helps us hold a leading position in the Australian t-shirt industry
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Several factors determine which method to use when it comes to printing t-shirts and other garment items. By comparison silk screening carries its own set of benefits, the main advantages being the ability to print large quantities for a much lower cost. Another less obvious positive is you have a greater choice of inks for different custom effects such as metallic, puffs, shimmers and more.
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From a marketing perspective, custom printed t-shirts are money well spent. Anyone who wears your customised t-shirt, with your organizations name on it, is a walking talking billboard for your company. It doesn't cost a lot of money to get this kind of exposure. For business people this cost is completely tax deductible. Now! That is something to smile about. So don't delay, get a free no obligation quote for your business today!
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The number of colours is important because screen printing uses screens with an image stencilled into it, like shown in the diagram, to apply that image to the t-shirt. Each screen can only have one colour applied to it. So, if we put more than one colour into the same screen, the printing inks would mix together changing the colour of the ink.
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Pantone® Matching System Colour Chart - Use this guide to assist your colour selection and specification process. This chart is a reference guide only. Pantone colours on computer screens may vary based on the graphics card and monitor used in your system. For true accuracy use the Pantone Colour Publication. If you are not sure what colours to use just give our friendly staff a call to discuss your options.
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Silk Screen t shirts is a process which uses screens with woven mesh that is able to produce and carry a stencil. The first step is to convert your design or drawing to transparent film. This is a positive image of your design that is used to create a stencil on the screen.
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