Navy Blue Cardplayer Large Sport Shirt - Critical Overview

The newest method of t-shirt printing is the Direct to Garment (DTG) method. This method is similar to screen printing but uses industrial quality inkjet. Because the use of this method is new, it has become the most talked about method at t-shirt printing trade shows.

And finally, you come to the design part. You can draw your own design by hand and scan then upload it, or you can create a digital artwork. Most websites also offer endless collections of designs that you can use if you don't happen to be particularly gifted in the arts.

You'll want to be careful with fonts. What looks good in print, or on a website, might not look so good on the front of a T shirt. Perhaps you'll want to make the size of your text bigger, or easier to read, or less intrusive. Why not try several ideas and see which works best?

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.

One of the best and the most fun ways to design a t-shirt is polka dots. They're flirty, enjoyable and simple to draw too. Merely pull out your painting colors and get started. Paint small dots if you want a cutesy effect. However, in case you are aiming at a more dramatic look, then go for bigger sized dots. Make sure that you draw dots in a color that is in contrast to the color of the t-shirt.

Another method is Direct To Garment (DTG) printing. This is a method of running the actual shirt through a printer which prints the image on to the shirt just as a standard in home ink jet printer would print out a document from your computer. There has been some talk in the design community of the ink drying or clumping up in these machines, but I have seen the work they do and it looks great and feels great on the shirt. This is a higher end option at this time with some printers going for around $25,000. You could get a used on for around $16,000, but it would take a lot of shirts to pay off that large of an investment.

This is the same process where you can buy T-Shirt transfer paper at places like Staples and Wal-Mart, and then press it onto the T-Shirt yourself. The difference is, good T-Shirt printers use commercial grade transfer paper and apply the transfers to the T-Shirts using a commercial heat press. This combination plus the expertise of the T-Shirt printer gives an excellent looking and durable T-Shirt.