How Does T-shirt Screen Printing Work?
The basics of T-shirt screen printing Screen printing is a process using light-sensitive materials and film-positive images to print on paper, wood, plastic, fabric and many other materials. Once the image is on the screen, ink is pressed through the screen with a squeegee to create a print. Screen-printing ink is brilliant and creates a dynamic-looking print. It is possible to print multiple copies, and to use one color of ink or multiple colors of ink. A screen must be prepared for each ink color used. Transforming art into a screen-printed T-shirt In order to screen-print an image, the image must be transferred to a film positive. The graphic may be prepared in a graphics program such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Simple graphics, such as typography, may be prepared in a word processing program such as Microsoft Word. Drawings may be scanned into a graphics program. The graphic may then be output onto a transparent sheet or piece of vellum using a laser printer or inkjet printe
