Printed T Shirts, What’s The Difference? 0

Printed T Shirts, What’s The Difference?

You will see many different types of printed T shirts everywhere you look nowadays. Printed T shirts are great for casual wear, party wear and almost any other type of thing that you could imagine. But were you aware at there are actually two different types of printing used in the making of printed T shirts? The two types of printing methods are known as digital printing and screen printing. Both of these ways of printing T shirts will give you different qualities with regards to texture and strength of the T shirt and its print and with that comes different price ranges. So what are the differences between digital and screen printing you ask!

The quality of any printed shirt can be determined by how well the print is on the shirt itself and how the colors stand out. With digital printing you can get a much higher resolution print which can give the print a lot more detail to it. This is because the print is actually deposited directly onto the shirt itself. This means that if you have a good quality shirt it will not make any difference whether the print is on or the shirt is blank as the quality remains the same either way

The main question to look at when you consider digital printing, is how long this print will actually last before it start to fade away? Well digital printing is a softer print than the screen printing and as such it will not last as long as the screen printing process. Digital printing however does feel nice and smooth to the touch. Screen printing is different altogether as the screen printing will give you a different feel to the shirt. This is because screen printing gives a rougher, thicker appearance and feel to a shirt. This is even more so when you screen print a darker colored shirt. The reason for this is that darker shirts first need a white layer on them before the color ca b added to the print. This makes the printing a lot stronger but it also makes it thicker and slightly rougher to the feel. Screen printing will also make the shirt more durable and last longer than the digitally printed ones.

When you take these things into consideration it can make the price of T shirts slightly different due to the process involved. It has been known that if you wanted to buy fewer than 6 T shirts then they would normally be digitally printed as this is an easier process. If however you wanted a larger quantity then it could be screen printed. So the price is also based on the number of T shirts required.