| Surrounded by hundreds of t-shirts' logos, images and | | | | surface are spot colors and four-color process. Spot |
| designs daily, you probably feel overwhelmed with all | | | | colors are individual colors that are printed separately. |
| the information their owners decide to put on public | | | | With hundreds of pre-mixed colors and an infinite |
| display. But it is certain that you also have at least | | | | number of colors that can be mixed together |
| one branded, colored or personally designed t-shirt in | | | | according to the specifications given by the graphic |
| your closet's space, which was made by your college | | | | designing program, the customer receives the original |
| friends as a graduation present, given to you as a | | | | design without visible variations. Four-color process |
| welcome-home gift, or distributed by your hiking club | | | | physically blends the main four colors (Cyan, Magenta, |
| as a symbol of encouragement to continue climbing | | | | Yellow and Black) on the textile to create a large |
| higher each time. But isn't it time to create your | | | | variety of colors. Simply referred to as CMYK it is |
| own? Even if you have done so in the past, your | | | | used to simulate photographic work and sophisticated |
| current state of mind might give you ideas | | | | graphics with shading and textural effects. Thus, |
| From the famous Andy Warhol images to personal | | | | depending on the complexity of the design selected |
| slogans, our favorite t-shirt has gone through many | | | | to be imprinted on the T-shirt, the graphic designer |
| different design and style variations. Throughout this | | | | will create transparent acetate films of each color |
| transition from one style to the next, the concept of | | | | and will print them in black. Each color is then |
| the T-shirt and the T-shirt printing process has | | | | exposed onto a fine mesh screen that has been |
| remained the same. As technology brought buyers | | | | coated with photosensitive emulsion -these screens |
| and suppliers closer together, T-shirt printing is now | | | | were originally made from silk, thus the term |
| available on the Internet by companies which design, | | | | silkscreen- and through the high-intensity lightbox the |
| produce and sell their customized T-shirt layout | | | | image is copied onto the T-shirt. |
| patterns in a preset or negotiable price range. In fact, | | | | If this sounds like too technical for you, do not get |
| companies that offer promotional items include in | | | | discouraged. Step-by-step online guides, apart from |
| their catalogues samples of screen printing projects, | | | | the experts at your local T-shirt printing facility, can |
| embroidery design, airbrush, appliqué, and | | | | guide you through the process of selecting or |
| ironing, while most of them provide free quotes | | | | designing from scratch your T-shirt logo and slogan. It |
| depending on the quantities needed and the complex | | | | is evident that through the different procedures of |
| of the design selected to be printed. However, for | | | | T-shirt printing ordering your personalized or company |
| the mass production of personalized T-shirts the | | | | labeled T-shirt can be as an easy process as counting |
| process of silk screening is mostly used. | | | | 1-2-3. |
| The two main methods of printing colors on a T-shirt | | | | |