For the product T-shirts, choose between digital printing, screen printing and transfer printing.
Digital print
With modern digital printing relatively large areas can be printed on textiles. With this pressure-free process, motifs are printed directly onto the textiles using an inkjet printer. The process makes individual prints possible even for single pieces. Furthermore, many colours and gradients can be displayed because the printing technique is based on the so-called subtractive colour mixing of CMYK. In order to ensure that the printing ink adheres to your T-shirts, we first treat the textiles with a spray, an “Odorless Fixation Agent”. This spray is then dried at 160 ° C in two 6.5 minute operations. After printing, no additional coating is applied. By using a Kornit Avalanche Hexa 1000 press, we use the ink-jet process to produce particularly bright colours and extremely high levels of detail. At the same time, the soft-touch surface of the print looks very good. The environmentally friendly printing inks also have a very good wash resistance at 40 ° C. Plus there’s another bit of good news: no screen-making costs are incurred during this printing process!
Transfer printing
With the digital transfer process, motifs and fonts are printed in CMYK on a backing paper and then transferred to the fabric with a transfer press. In transfer printing, flat colours as well as the finest colour gradients, for example in photos, can be brilliantly represented. By printing on a white transfer film, colours are reproduced perfectly, as the background does not shine through. Furthermore, transfer printing is characterised by high contour sharpness and coverage. A further advantage is undoubtedly the independence of fabric and colour, which is achieved by transfer printing. Regardless of which textiles are printed, the appearance of the print is identical on every fabric.
Screen printing
Screen printing is a real all-rounder among the printing processes. Here the printing ink is printed through a finely woven fabric onto the corresponding textile using a rubber squeegee. The areas that should not be coloured in the final printed image are made colour-impermeable by means of a stencil at the corresponding mesh opening. The direct transfer to the fabric makes the haptics very neutral and, in contrast to alternative printing processes, feels less gummed. This ensures a high wearing comfort which does not affect the fabric feel even after repeated washing and ironing. The screen printing process, which is characterised by long durability and resistance, produces rich colours with high covering power even on dark textiles. Especially for long runs, this process achieves top printing at comparatively low costs. In addition to printing with conventional inks, so-called spot colours can of course also be selected. For example, metallic colours such as gold, silver and bronze are considered exclusive spot colours with particularly high recognition value. Metallic colours are not created in CMYK but are pure Pantone colours. You should use the following Pantone colours to display these elements: Pantone 871 C (gold), Pantone 877 C (silver) and Pantone 876 C (bronze). Of course, all other metallic colours of the standard Formula Guide and Metallic Formula Guide from Pantone are also available.
Please note: Use a minimum font size of 11 for an optimum print product. Lines should also be at least 0.5 mm wide.