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How can I create or find colorful logos printed on t-shirts?
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You need a printer that will make press on designs. Then you must have the heat press machine to do the actual prints.
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Well if you're doing it at home you can get the iron on Transfer paper for your inkjet printer. . . Professionally it's done through silk screen printing. This is done through and emulsion on the screen. The image is broken down into it's separate colours and each one is burned on a screen using a product known as photo emulsion. With the clear film of the separated colour placed over the screen a light is shone onto the screen and where there light hits the emulsion it hardens. The screen is the washed with a pressure washer so that where the image was shown the ink will now be able to pass through the screen. . . Once this is done the screen is place on top of the shirt and ink is poured on the screen and squeegeed through the mesh to get the imprint on the shirt. this is done for each colour and registation marks are used to make sure everything lines up. . . You can do this at home as well all the things you need can be found at your local art supply store. You may want to look into a course at a college as they often offer them in screenprinting, that is of course supposing this is what you want to do.
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Use a silk screen machine . Screen printing may be a hand operation or an automatic machine process. The cloth is first laid on a printing table, gummed in position or pinned to a back gray, and then the design is applied through a screen made of silk or nylon gauze stretched over a wooden or metal frame, on which the design for one color has been reproduced. This is usually a photographic process, although hand painting with a suitably resistant blocking paint is an alternative. A screen is placed over the fabric on the table against registration stops, ensuring accurate pattern fitting. Print paste is poured on to the screen edge nearest the operator and is spread with a squeegee over the surface of the screen so that color is pushed through the open parts. The screen is moved until one color has been applied to the cloth. For application of other colors, the process is repeated with different screens. . . With the growing importance of screen printing, the hand operation has been largely replaced by mechanical methods. In some machines, the screens are flat, as in hand printing; others employ rotary screens.
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it can either be ironed or stiched onto the shirt
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santa clause makes the elves do it
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