silkscreen and heat transfer printing combination

If you always come across tshirt order for either company or personal, you should know that there are 2 common printing methods for t-shirt - silkscreen and heat transfer printing

Let make simple explanation for these 2 printing method
A) Silkscreen – need block and manual printing / Suitable for solid color (some people call spot color) / Color and order quantity is the cost factor
B) Heat Transfer – Digital printing on PU Vinyl then heat transfer to tshirt / Suitable for full color with gradient or photo printing / image size the cost factor

The question is how determine the best printing method? There is no absolute answer. We highly recommend you show us your tshirt artwork design and layout, so that we can advise the best printing method base on your artwork and order quantity.


Here is one of the example:

have a look with below tshirt design. The image size is A4, consist of wording at top, full color logo in the middle and yellow color wording at bottom. What is the most cost effective way for printing?

In order to determine the printing cost, we need to know the order quantity. If the order quantity is below 5pcs, then heat transfer printing is the most cost effective and suitable method

If there is bulk quantity about 100pcs or above. There are 2 options. 

Option 1 - 100% silkscreen printing

Result: the top white wording and bottom yellow wording is fine. The logo in the middle might not meet expectation due to limitation of silkscreen can't produce high quality CMYK image.

Option 2 - silkscreen and heat transfer combination

Result: Silkscreen printing for top and bottom wording (as silkscreen printing is suitable for solid color printing). For logo in the middle, use heat transfer full color printing. 

We believe option 2 is the best printing method to maintain cost effective and printing quality for bulk order volume. However, it is subject to the final artwork design. Hence we highly recommend customer to show us your tshirt design, so that we can propose the right printing method for your tshirt. 

 

If you have an artwork and would like to print on a T-shirt, feel free to come to us anytime. We provide good quality T-shirt printing services in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Contact Us NOW to place your order!

Email Address: tshirtngift@gmail.com

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The benefits between heat transfer and silkscreen printing for tshirt

You may come across looking for tshirt printing service for company event, personal use or special gift for your love one. Most people might know there are several tshirt printing methods like heat transfer printing, silkscreen printing and etc… Do you ever know that which printing methods are most suitable for you?
Here we share the benefits between heat transfer and silkscreen printing. These 2 printing method are very common in tshirt printing industry.

The benefit of heat transfer printing
Technology – Heat Transfer using “eco-solvent print n cut system” to print the image digitally on PU vinyl material. Then the printed PU vinyl will transfer to tshirt via heat press machine.
Print quality – The image is printed with CMYK printer with excellent quality.
Setup time – Fast (due to no need to prepare block)
Production time – Average -  Subject to image size for transfer to tshirt
Cost – Heat transfer is more cost effect for low quantity order. The printing is CMYK, so that you can enjoy full color printing. You can even print a photograph on the tshirt.
Key advantage - no minimum order quantity, no block charges, no per color charges

The benefit of silkscreen printing
Technology – Silkscreen is a versatile printing technique suitable for printing on shirts, paper, wood, plastic and glass. The design is transferred to a frame with screen mesh stretched taut across it. Ink is pressed through the screen with a squeegee. Silk screens are coated with a light sensitive photo emulsion. Graphics are printed on clear vellum and placed over the screen, then exposed to a strong light for a prescribed time. The image is developed with warm water under pressure.
Print quality – Usually silkscreen is manual hand printing, therefore the print quality is subject to person skill set who perform the job.
Setup time – Very long - It need to prepare block which coated with light sensitive photo emulsion. It need to adjust the position of each block in order to make sure the ink are printed in right place.
Production time – Once all block are finish setup, the production will become easier. However, it depend on how many colors consist in the printed image as silkscreen print each color one by one.
Cost – Screen printing is cost-effective for volume order and with one or two-color printing. Silk screen works best with dynamic, iconic images specifically prepared for the medium.
   

If you have an artwork and would like to print on a T-shirt, feel free to come to us anytime. We provide good quality T-shirt printing services in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our personalized heat transfer tshirt offer excellent printing quality with no minimum order quantity, no block charges, no per color charges and even competitive pricing.

Contact Us NOW to place your order!

Email Address: tshirtngift@gmail.com

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