Printing on fabrics is done to get attractive looks and that is why eyes always turn towards beautifully and even weirdly printed apparel rather than single colored attire. Man’s passion for wearing something colorful and patternized is ancient and therefore printing on fabrics came long back in existence as before 220. Most probably it originated in China as the love of East Asian countries for colors and printed fabrics is well-known. But even the Incas and Aztecs of Peru and Mexico were well acquainted with textile printing though it is not known whether they discovered the art by themselves or learnt it from their Asian counterparts.
In early days wooden blocks were used to print images, patterns or text. Images and patterns were used to print fabric used by human and text prints were used to print holy books on fabric.
Today is the time for printed T-shirts. They are not only used by teams, companies and retail outlets, but also by commoner fashion-pros to make a statement. For players t-shirts are printed with the purpose to make player’s name, club’s name and logo and player’s number discernible, so that they can be identified by the spectators and commentators sitting far from them. Printed tees are useful for company employees too. Companies usually use printed T-shirts for their sales personals so that they can be easily identified by shoppers. Persons from service industry such as A/C mechanics and pest control workers also wear printed T-shirts because they introduce the workers to the homeowners as employees of the concerned company. In today’s age of intrusion on the name of service personals, printed tees act as a sort of an identity card (though not very authentic, so beware, homeowners!)
Techniques of Printing On T-shirt
Screen Printing: This method is widely used today because it is easy and convenient. There are two methods of screen printing. 1) Bed (flat) screen printing and 2) Rotary screen printing. In these types of printing there is a blade which spreads the specific color through the openings on to the T-shirt.
Direct to Garment: This is commonly referred to as DTG. In this method printing is done with the help of ink jets of respective color of which the design is to be made. This method is adopted for printing smaller objects such as logo, on the fabric.
Embroidery: This is not literally a printing method. In this method instead of colors, colorful threads are used and they are embroidered on the fabric in such a manner that it forms the specific design such as logo. Nowadays this is done by machines but still it is a bit expensive.
With these methods one can get the T-shirts printed as per the requirement and the budget. While ordering printed T-shits, you have to check spellings, numerical, and logo on a sample T-shirt.
TShirtBox.co.uk offers the best T shirt printing in Leeds doing all types of t-shirt printing orders, with various printing methods on hoodeis, polo shirts, work wear, corporate wear and sweatshirts, and offer embroidered wear too. Images in this article are their courtesy.
