SCREEN PRINTING

CUSTOM SILK SCREEN PRINTING

Traditional silk-screen printing is very popular process offered by many custom clothing manufacturers. It involves “color separating” graphics and producing silk-screen stencils using the information from each color separation. Each color in the design will have its own designated screen. This means that a one color logo would require just one screen for its single ink color, while a five-color graphic would require five screens for each of the five colors being printed. We align each silk screen stencil (a process known as registration) and then produce your custom screen printed t-shirts or apparel items by depositing ink from all the individual screens onto the garment, one by one, so the colors fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

With our silk screen printing services, we are able to produce vivid colors that "POP" and last.

Whether you want your shirt to be a glow-in-the-dark edition, reflect light, or even change color in sunlight, our custom screen printing services always deliver when it comes to making your designs look awesome on clothing and accessories.

Some key factors that drive pricing for screen-printed apparel:

Total quantity ordered
Number of colors in your print
Total number of print locations
Quality of the blank garment being printed on

ARTWORK

When sending your artwork, for optimal printing results, keep your design at its “life-size” or actual printed dimensions in a vectorized format like AI, PDF, or eps with all fonts converted to outlines. If this is not possible and you need to send rasterized art, please send your graphic approximately as large as you’d like it to be printed and set at a resolution of 300 dpi. For same day t-shirt screen printing service or anything needed in a rush, please call or email so we can confirm our ability to assist. Although we're always happy to be your go-to local vendor for custom screen printing services near you, it's likely that we may suggest our digital printing services - especially for non-local customers needing apparel in a pinch where transit time for an order shortens our production window. Also please note, for any rush, you will need to have your artwork in a vectorized format or else rush service may not be possible in some cases.

Adjusting the settings for your image size/canvas space to “life-size” dimensions and resolution to 300 dpi needs to be done BEFORE you begin designing. If you create your graphic on a small canvas and at a lower resolution, you can’t simply enlarge the design and change the resolution to 300 dpi and get a high-detail file. In the case of private label t-shirt printing, we do have some templates available if you need help designing that finishing touch to your gear.

To cut cost or in cases where customers have asked us for "cheap custom t-shirt printing no minimum", we recommend making sure you are providing your artwork in a vectorized format so that we can widen the services available to you and also keeping everything as simple as possible - ideally in 1 (or very few) colors for your screen printed graphic.

OTHER PRINTING COSTS

Color Changes
When we drop ink into the screens to print your graphic, this first color set-up is free. If you would like to change a printed ink color on a portion of your order, there is a $15 color change fee for each color change. For example, if you wanted to print a one-color image on both black and white tees, you may consider printing half the order in black ink on the white tees and then changing this color to print in white ink on the black tees. The change from white ink to black ink on the last half of the order would result in a single color change fee of $15 (the first black ink color to start the run was free).

Complex Separations
When screen printing photographic images or designs with complex elements like gradations and fades, there is a one-time $200 charge for creating the set of complex color separations.