Nenagh asked:
Do I have to buy a very high-quality printer and then.. do I buy tansfer paper and then iron it on? Or do I have to order the fabric to be printed somewhere else...
I want to use my graphic art designs on t-shirts, but i want them to cover the WHOLE front of a t-shirt.. do i need a large printer and extra large transfer paper (if thats what you use)? Or is there some paper already designed for this that i could use?
how do the designers do this?
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5 responses so far ↓
1 sophist // Jul 15, 2009 at 5:08 am
Sublimation Inks
What you want is a very expensive silkscreen printer like the professionals use. Your alternative is to furnish the art work and give it to a printer for printing.
2 inksmithaddict // Jul 16, 2009 at 4:52 am
Heat Press for Sublimation Printing
The best thing is one of two things. So one thing is it yours, did you create it? If it happens to be of someone Else’s creation you might as well unless permission was/is granted to go to a professional to print it, then this is the first route I’d take as mistakes can be eliminated from your pocket book. Second choice is self explanatory, that you do it yourself. The best way to get the best image quality is to stay as small as you can as possible, the larger you step up the image from it’s original state the worse it will be. Now downsizing it is always better as it makes the image more dense; but don’t go too small. printer quality is an issue just as monitors, camera’s etc. the ones with the best pixel rating the better. The higher you go the best you will get for quality. I suggest trying to make a practice run on a cheap shirt so you can see what you will end up with.
3 Fat_Iggy // Jul 18, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Sublimation Inks
You may want to consder getting a printer that can print 11 x 17, depending on how big your designs are. I have an older HP Deskjet 1220, which is great for flat colours, okay for highest quality prints of gradients and halftones.
If your printer doesn’t accomodate 11 x 17, it will 8.5 x 14, and that might work for some of what you have in mind.
Here’s a site that offeres Inkject and laser printer Iron on transfer paper, cheaper than what I’ve seen elsewhere
There are several places you can get blank T shirts online. This was the first one that showed up when I googled, but you can look further and find better deals I’m sure…
That would be the cheapest way to start out. If you get a little more advanced, you might consider building up to a small silk screening business of your own. The small equipment doesn’t take up that much room…here’s a site to look at for info on that..
Lots of luck to you!
4 artistpw // Jul 20, 2009 at 7:08 am
Heat Press
Hi:
Check out the Dharma Trading website for iron on transfers. It sounds like they have some silk transfers available, and those sounds like they would be very light and not mess up the hand of the fabric. Also, I think they have transfers for stretchy fabric. You might try that to see how that works for you. I am also interested to see how the transfers are done for commerical fabrics, because I really like the ones that have the interesting print patterns. Hope this helps.
5 mhymai // Jul 20, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Heat Press
using sublimation.. or if you want, you can print your design in cloth (roll) like polyester, tentcloth and cococloth then make a t-shirt using sewing machine.. ofcourse you need a digital wide format printer.. you can let the others with printer do the printing and you do the sewing.. c”,)
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