| Visit for all your printing needs, located in San Diego, | | | | do and it allows the printer some flexibility with |
| California in vista. SandL Graphic Design can do you | | | | customers as smaller quantity orders can be printed |
| next t-shirt printing, screen printing, digital t-shirt | | | | effectively with this method. The underlying problem |
| printing, or heat press. | | | | with heat transfer is that it does not work well on |
| | | | | dark shirts as the shirt color usually winds up being |
| One of the oldest, and still most reliable, ways to | | | | the lightest color in the image. If you are trying to |
| print to a t-shirt is the screen printing method. Screen | | | | print a light image to a dark shirt the results may not |
| printing is usually the method considered to be of the | | | | be what you were hoping for. |
| highest quality by printers and customers. Screen | | | | Another method of t-shirt printing that is quite |
| printing requires a great deal of set up and that is | | | | popular is the method referred to as Direct to |
| why screen printing can sometimes be more | | | | Garment or DTG printing. For this method the entire |
| expensive than the other methods. With screen | | | | image is printed directly to the shirt. This method |
| printing each color is applied separately and a screen | | | | comes out not being as heavy or thick as screen |
| needs to be made for each color as well. The set up | | | | printing, and it can offer the printer the ability to do |
| time can be longer than the other methods but the | | | | small quantity orders, but like heat transfer printing |
| results are usually far more durable and attractive | | | | the DTG method usually winds up having the cloth |
| than the other methods. Many printers also consider | | | | being the lightest part of the image and for many |
| screen printing to be the method that causes the | | | | customers this is simply not acceptable. |
| most mess because they are dealing with printing the | | | | T-shirt printing is a complicated art that requires |
| same image repeatedly but in different phases. After | | | | years of experience to properly execute. The |
| a while the ink starts to get a bit messy. But many | | | | method you choose to print the t-shirts with |
| printers and customers prefer the screen printing | | | | depends solely on the needs and wants of the |
| method. | | | | customer. In order to know which methods apply to |
| Recently there has been another printing method of | | | | which situations you need to be proficient in as many |
| choice that is challenging screen printing as the | | | | t-shirt printing methods as possible. |
| method of choice. Heat transfer is becoming very | | | | |
| popular and it is because of how easy it is to | | | | T-shirt printing San Diego- visit for your next t-shirt |
| execute heat transfer printing that is allowing it to | | | | printing, screen printing, digital t-shirt printing, heat |
| become so popular. For the heat transfer method | | | | press. We are located at 503 South Santa Fe, |
| you print the image on a special type of transfer | | | | Vista, California 92084 in San Diego County or visit us |
| paper and then transfer the image to the t-shirt with | | | | online at or call for more details at 760 758 3239. |
| heat which seems very self explanatory. It is easy to | | | | |