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Thermal transfer and screen printing

Both heat transfer and wire mesh technology have their own characteristics. Transfer printing technology is a popular printing technology in recent years. The principle is to print the pattern and then print it on the t-shirt fabric through the high-temperature and high-pressure transfer printing machine. Screen printing, transfer printing with the advantages of fast and convenient, vivid color, in simple terms, as long as the color inkjet printer prints the pattern, it can be faithfully restored on the t-shirt fabric according to the pattern. But mass customization is costly.


Screen printing technology is more complicated, designing, filming, printing, printing, drying and other steps. Screen printing color plate printing, simply say if a t-shirt design has three colors of red, yellow and blue, it needs to print three versions, one version per color, but a little different from printing CMYK, most of the domestic Color printing, CMYK dot overlay is difficult to control in t-shirt printing, that is, if your design has a color gradient effect, screen printing is very difficult. Screen printing also has the characteristics of low production cost and large output. Therefore, retail t-shirts on the market are mainly screen printing.


If your design is rich in color and the number of prints, you can choose thermal transfer. If your design color, simple color number is small, and there is a certain amount, choose screen printing.


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