Details About T-Shirt Design Printing
Half tones and PMS colors: It can be very costly to use high resolution pictures and full tone colors. Budget constraints, often call for the use of halftones. In order to achieve this, the color scale must be toned down to the PMS color percentage.
Cotton has been around for centuries, it is the granddaddy of all t-shirt fabric. Cotton was first used for clothing way back in 2500 B.C. Throughout the years it has been the most popular fabric for making clothing. Production of cotton became much more efficient once Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, which mechanically separated cotton from seeds, in the late 18th century.
There are no specific rules as to what employers see as a smart T shirt so there are several options available in terms of sleeve length. A short sleeve t shirt is acceptable during warmer weather or when teamed with a waistcoat or jacket. A long sleeve t shirt is just as acceptable during cooler months. A key trend of 2011 is the three quarter length t shirt so that is also an option.
PMS colors are a better choice: It is quite common for designers to use an RGB or CMYK scheme. But if you want a better finish and smooth color separations, using PMS colors is your best bet. Sometimes, the printer may give pieces of fabrics and sample prints so that they can match the colors and texture as per their needs.
These more advanced t-shirt printing processes now make use of, what else, a computer! If you want to start a custom tee business, knowledge in basic computer operation is a must. What you need to do is print the customer's desired design in a special type of paper with an inkjet or laser printer and using waterproof ink. Then the image is transferred to the shirt. The images are then dried and ironed so they won't come off no matter how many times you use and wash the t-shirt. The quality of the t-shirt itself is also important.
If you have a team you can have your team logo on the front of all the T-Shirts and then each players name and number on the back. Or if you have a company and you want your logo with the persons name or position incorporated into the logo, this is easy to do.
First of all, you need to buy a plain t-shirt for yourself. This can be purchased at a highly reasonable price from anywhere that you regularly buy your shirts from. However, these shirts should be either in plain white color or in a solid color which you want to keep as a base for your designed shirt. Before you make your purchase, do read the instructions at the tag of the shirt. Your shirt should be color-friendly, which means that it should be able to provide a good base for the fabric paints that you will use.
