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Custom Printed T-shirts
T-Shirt Guys was established in 1976 and are proud to be a leading garment decorator. We have a BEE certificate and brand T-shirts and clothing using printing or embroidery techniques. All printing and embroidery is done in house and we are capable of printing 1 shirt to 1,000's of shirts, caps, golf shirts, jackets or whatever your need. We print or embroider on our items or those you prefer to supply.
Silk Screen Printing
This is the most common technique for printing T-shirts. A screen is made for each colour that one wants to be printed onto every side of the shirt that you want printed. The screen has an 'open area' of where the ink is allowed to go through and be applied to the shirt, cap or whatever is being printed. Once printed the printed garment is cured in a heat tunnel or heat press so that the image will not wash out or fade.
We can print up to 8 spot colours and will shortly upgrading that to an unlimitted amount.
We also print full colour using the cmyk process system ,simulated process system or index system.
Our art and design is done in house at no charge. For embroidery designs we also do in house digitising at no cost.
For light garments we are able to use a soft ink that has a soft touch or soft hand feel to it and it penetrates within the garment. With darker garments we need to use a more opaque ink that needs to sit more on the surface of the garment. This can give a more plastic type feel to it but there are ways of making it feel softer.
We are also able to print a discharge ink onto dark items leaving a very soft feel to the shirt. When we use this process we almost bleach out just the area of the shirt we want printed so that that particular area returns to its natural cotton colour. We then print just that area with a soft ink so that the end result is a printed t-shirt with a very soft feel to it. For this process the garment must be 100% cotton and it need to be dyed using a reactive dye. We are able to supply these shirts or you may supply your own.
We silk screen T-shirts, golf shirts, sports bags, corporate gifts using one or more of the following inks.
Plastisol inks
Water based inks
Plastisol discharge printing
Waterbased discharge printing
Vinyl inks
Nylon inks.
Digital Printing
Digitial printing is best for small runs of shirts where one wants to avoid the setup cost of screens and still use many colours onto a shirt. We print the image digitally and then cut the exact print area out digitally onto a tansfer material which is placed onto the shirt. With the modern inks and materials this will last as long as your shirt.
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