When screen printing t-shirts, a surprisingly significant factor in determining price is the color of your textile. Choosing a white shirt may result in considerable savings in your printing costs. There are a number of reasons why this is the case, from initial shirt pricing to factors in the printing process.
T-shirts are generally priced in two categories, 'Whites' and 'Darks'. White t shirts are always the least expensive shirt when compared to a coloured t-shirt of identical brand and type. For no other reason than shirt price alone, whites contribute to a reduce overall printing value.
There are also price advantages in the printing process itself when putting on white t-shirts instead of dark. When printing on dark shirts, many inks wish to have more than one layer laid down in order to completely cover the shirt. In order to retain the layers from smearing, the first layer can be partially dried underneath a heating element in a process called 'flashing'. Having to flash colors in a print run adds considerable season to how long a shirt is on the press and incurs an additional charge. Most colors on white shirts will go on in one layer and rarely should be flashed.
A similar factor that affects value on a dark shirt is the requirement for a white underbase. Light hues and bright ink colours will not print well, if at all, on a dark shirt regardless of how sure layers are put down. To overcome this, a white layer of ink in the same shape as the coloured layer is printed primary and then flashed to dry it. Then the final color of ink is laid down on top of the white. Not only does this have the flashing charge as described above, but also there's now an additional ink color, namely white, which further raises the value.
While beautiful and striking work can be done with screen printing images on dark shirts (as well as white), if economy is a major factor for your project, you would be better served to make a design geared for white shirts.
T-shirts are generally priced in two categories, 'Whites' and 'Darks'. White t shirts are always the least expensive shirt when compared to a coloured t-shirt of identical brand and type. For no other reason than shirt price alone, whites contribute to a reduce overall printing value.
There are also price advantages in the printing process itself when putting on white t-shirts instead of dark. When printing on dark shirts, many inks wish to have more than one layer laid down in order to completely cover the shirt. In order to retain the layers from smearing, the first layer can be partially dried underneath a heating element in a process called 'flashing'. Having to flash colors in a print run adds considerable season to how long a shirt is on the press and incurs an additional charge. Most colors on white shirts will go on in one layer and rarely should be flashed.
A similar factor that affects value on a dark shirt is the requirement for a white underbase. Light hues and bright ink colours will not print well, if at all, on a dark shirt regardless of how sure layers are put down. To overcome this, a white layer of ink in the same shape as the coloured layer is printed primary and then flashed to dry it. Then the final color of ink is laid down on top of the white. Not only does this have the flashing charge as described above, but also there's now an additional ink color, namely white, which further raises the value.
While beautiful and striking work can be done with screen printing images on dark shirts (as well as white), if economy is a major factor for your project, you would be better served to make a design geared for white shirts.
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