There are basically three types of T-shirt printing, screen printing, transfer printing, and hand-painting.
Screen printing is the most widely used T-shirt printing. 90% of the T-shirts bought in stores are screen printing. The screen printing technology is relatively complicated, mainly including design, film production, printing, printing, and drying. . Screen printing. Simply put, if the pattern of a T-shirt has three colors of red, yellow, and blue, it needs to print three plates, one plate for each color, but it is a bit different from the CMYK on the printing. Similarly, in most domestic spot color printing, the superposition of CMYK dots on the T-shirt printing is difficult to control.
Transfer printing technology is a printing technology that has become popular in recent years. The principle is to print (print) the pattern on transfer paper, and then print the pattern on the T-shirt fabric through high temperature and high pressure. Compared with screen printing, transfer Printing has the advantages of fast and convenient, realistic colors, but also has the disadvantages of relatively low colorfastness and high cost of mass customization. If you just want to design a unique T-shirt, you can consider printing the designed pattern and then transferring it to the T-shirt.
The last kind of hand-painting, most of the hand-painted T-shirts are now done by inkjet, of course, there are also many with brushes. The pigments used are generally acrylic paints and textile dyes. The cost of hand-painted T-shirts is relatively high, and no one does it. There is no guarantee that everything drawn is the same.
