| Generally, the easiest way to a cool T-shirt is | | | | Heat transfer is also an option for making your own |
| screen-printing. The discovery of plastisol in 1959 | | | | cool T-shirt at home. Some printers have the ability |
| revolutionized the domain, thanks to the flexible | | | | to print on special transfer paper, and then, by using |
| properties of this ink. In this manner, a wider variety | | | | a regular household ironing machine, the image makes |
| in T-shirts design became suddenly available. | | | | the object of full and permanent transfer to the |
| Although process printing and simulated process are | | | | T-shirt. Embroidery and airbrush are other ways of |
| two utterly different things, they are both cool t-shirt | | | | obtaining such T-shirts. There was a distinct type of |
| printing methods resulting in truly cool T-shirt | | | | such T-shirts, very popular in Britain in the mid 1980s |
| products. Both revolve around the same idea, which | | | | and in the U.S. as well: the cool T-shirt that changed |
| is printing a number of colors as large as possible | | | | color when exposed to changing temperature. They |
| while using only about four or five basic colors to | | | | are not that successful nowadays, mainly because |
| begin with. However, the former is more suitable for | | | | they damage other clothes when washed together |
| white or almost white shirts, while the latter is best | | | | and their color fades away from washing. |
| for darker ones. | | | | |