silkscreening alternatives
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- humper-jones
Anyone know any new t-shirt printing techniques...im looking for an alternative to plain old silk screening.
- ********0
iron on kinda deal is easy but looks crappy and i have never tried it out, and nothing beats the silkscreening..
- humper-jones0
nah....i need something that looks professional and im doing like 1500 pcs. So iron on wont cut it.
- b0ner0
WOW,
1500 professional pieces, and you looking for alernatives to a screened technique?
seriosly man, just screen them.
iron-ons are for mock ups.
screening is THE BEST way to go.
- Jaline0
yes, the only option you really have is...well no option. For that many shirts, screening is the best way to go.
- humper-jones0
you know what...i guess i was just looking for a different texture and look besides silkscreening. do you guys know of any top notch places? im in chicago and the only place that will do that many is a place called propaganda...but they do so much work that it seems like their stuff sucks.
- ********0
ask the people at skinny corp aka threadless who they use, they are located in chicago as well and have alot of shirts printed every week..
dunno, just a suggestion..
- version30
choose a unique ink
- humper-jones0
unique as in color? or in terms of something else?
- version30
there are transparent inks and thick inks and textured inks available
- humper-jones0
thanks version...i will definetly check into that
- b0ner0
okay, so you want somethings different as in, different applicaions? or differents print processes?
as far as applications go, you could look into ezyme washes, appliques, etc.... but that gets costly.
- ********0
get ur printer to fany about with different inks at the same time.
you can get mad rainbow effects but youl only get so many per run before the paint all merges into one colour then the screens gotta be cleaned and reloaded with paint.
- ********0
or do your tshirts with stencils and some clothespaints thought a airbrush.
you can pick them up at artshops easily. the air comes in aeresol cans.you could maybe get a coupleof colurs printed then customise each shirt with a bit of stencil work
- monNom0
spraypaint and stencil
screenprint with nylon stockings and household paint (oil based) for that ultra-sucky quality look.
burn your designs into the cotton
make a hot stamp and press into a matte polyester to get a shiny print.
maybe???
- fresnobob0
screnprint that shit with bleach on colored shirts.
- b0ner0
yeah, all that x 1500.
- infostruct0
Try these guys. I think they do the threadless stuff, but I have heard good things about them from others as well.