What type of equipment do I need if I want to make .....?

Question

What do I need to make the prints and stuff on my own t-shirts. I'm looking for prints like on the Tapout shirts or any shirt like that where it seems to be inked in some how. Thank You in advance.

Answer 1

Ideally, you'd want a silk screen set up, but, unless you are willing to spent a LOT of money on multiple screens, carousels and forms, you would be severely limited on the quantity of shirts you can do. With only one screen available at a time, for instance, it would be a MAJOR project to print, even, a half dozen shirts in multiple colors. Single colors, however are pretty easy, and production numbers would only be limited to how much energy you have.

Even the simplest silk screen processes involve a LOT of messy clean up.

But, the results can be well worth the effort and expense, because a good silk screen application can outlast the shirt, itself.

For a single shirt or two at a time, you might consider iron on transfers, from designs printed on your inkjet. Not always the best solution, but it is easy, safe and pretty cheap.

To have tee shirt shop do it can be very costly, especially the set up process. But, the more shirts orded, the cheaper the unit price. In other words, the FIRST shirt may cost a couple of hundred dollars, but all the rest are only five or ten dollars each.

Answer 2

there's a website called spreadshirt.com
and you can design your own tee-shirts, either using the graphics ang designs they've already provided on the site for you, or you can upload your own design and put it on your choice of shirts
(make sure that if you upload your own design, that it's HUGE!! trust me...if it's about the size of the pictures you find on google, they're going to be MICROSCOPIC on the shirt you're designing...)

hope this helps you out!
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~tay~