Tips On How To Do A Home Based T Shirt Printing

By Angela Briggs


Digital printing is now the most convenient for most people nowadays for this process can immediately show quick results. But a number of people still do praise the traditional one which is the silk screen t-shirt printing Omaha. This is because they wanted to have their shirts more personalized or made by their own hands. Now if you want to give a gift like this to a friend, then you have to know the preparation.

You cannot start without the tools. Anything that can be traced for a pattern would do, but the most used for this method is the stencil paper. But if you cannot find one, then bond paper, negative camera film, x ray film and thick cellophane would do. Just make sure that it is hard enough to hold liquid and cannot be torn easily.

In choosing colors you have to choose what you think is better for you for there are a lot of possible colors to be used in this process. Acrylic is the most used type of paint by students and beginners for it dries quickly and is water based. It is available in different colors and shaded. But the fabric paint might be the best for a t shirt.

The principal tool to have this type of printing is the silk screen which is made of mesh. You can purchase the one with white mesh in the departments stores. It would be hard you to see a yellow mesh in such place for yellow mesh is mostly used by experts already for this absorbs light. For the frame, just choose the one with wooden for you are not a commercialized printing company that needs to use metal framed screen.

The applicators is very important. And for this type of printing, you only need to use a squeegee. Squeegee is made of soft rubber blade to press the adhesive into the fabric. There are certain types for this, and two of it is the ergo force which has an aluminum handle and which blade is replaceable and a the one with wooden handle and most of the time with irreplaceable blade.

Though it is much ideal compared to the other one. But you do not mind spending too much for a home made t shirt printing. What is good with the wooden handle is that it does not need reassembling it upon the purchase unlike the other one. And it is much more available and cheaper.

Of course when doing your patterns, you have to cut them out so that it could be converted into an imprint. Most people are using paper cutters and scissors for shaping and cutting. But if you have extra money you could buy a stencil cutter which might help you have a better result to those designs which are very curvy.

Other tools you might need are the masking tapes for you to create a secondary frame depending of the size of your design. Brushes, if you do want to make your shirt more artistic. Pencil or any pen for the outline of you patterns. And news paper to avoid paint spills.

T-shirt printing Omaha, either digitized or silk screened, it does not matter. For what matters is the artistry for the one who made it. Now, you can finally make your own t shirt design for your boyfriend.




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