-shirt printing: designing the Art

T-shirt printing starts with an idea brought to us by the customer. The idea is taken to our in house artists who take the design and make a computer generated version, using the t-shirt color the customer has chosen for his order. Once the design has been completed it is posted to the Art Approval page for approval anywhere in the world.

T-shirt printing: producing the Art

Once the screen printing design is approved it goes to our production artist, who takes the design apart by color. Each color of the design will have its own screen. Before the production artist can take the design to the screen department they must print each color on a film positive. This is the final step of preparing the art for

T-shirt printing: preparing the screen

Screen printing can not be completed successfully without well constructed screens. The film positives from the production artist go to the screen department, who prepares the screen by coating it with photosensitive emulsion. The positive is attached to the emulsion coated screens, and taken to be burnt for t-shirt printing.

The t-shirt printing screen is placed into a unit that exposes the screen to ultra-violet light. The ultra-violet light burns the design into the screen, removing the emulsion for ink to come through the screen. This is important to get great 

Screen printing: printing the shirt

Screen printing finishes by transferring the ink through the screen onto the shirt. To begin this process, the press is loaded with the t-shirt printing screens. Proper ink colors are poured into the top of the coordinating screens for screen printing.

The screen printer then loads the t shirt. Making sure that it is even and sitting straight on the screen printing plat. Once it is loaded properly the printer lowers the screens and pulls the ink across the screen with a rubber screen printing squeegee.

The t-shirt is then removed and placed on a belt that runs under a special dryer. This dryer will cure the ink at 320°F. At the end of the dryer Quality Control inspects each garment to guarantee a successful screen printing.

The t-shirt printing quality you will receive has been accomplished with over 14 years of experience. We are constantly working with new products, techniques and applications to insure you the best screen printing.