Photo Tshirts

Below is some important and helpful information regarding printing of tshirts, please read.

HOW YOUR ARTWORK WILL PRINT

Right, so we have a new printer to play around on, again it is a Direct to Garment Digital Printer, so it is still an enormous inkjet in principle but unlike most other inkjets, it has white ink.
Now prints are divided into lights and darks, for light coloured t-shirts it prints straight onto the shirt, for darks it lays down a white base first and then prints on top of that.
This printer is far superior at handling gradients and photographic-esque images than screen printing, and while it does a very impressive job of rendering blocks colours, it is best to avoid very large expanses of single colour area, particularly if those areas are white. Also remember that the image will not glow like your backlit monitor.

Some quick important rules to follow and remember:

Gradients from a colour fading out to nothing on dark tees are EXTREMELY hard to render.
Very fine type using white ink on dark tees can also be tricky.
Very large block areas of a single colour should be avoided.

Greetings Members of the Photo Tshirt Group and also WELCOME to any new members.

With so many talented photo tshirt creators now in the Photo Tshirt Group, I thought it was high time for a little fun and have set the group a Challenge.

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The theme for the Challenge is SUMMER.

I hereby challenge you to create a Photo Tshirt that represents/interprets summer to you, whatever it may be, so long as it is about summer and is a photo (one that is of the quality required to print satisfactorily on a tshirt ie, clean, clear, sharp, bold images).

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I have set the deadline for the end of the month, 31 December, so get your entry in by then. My favourite Summer Tshirt entry will then see in the New Year as the image of the Photo Tshirt Group.

Please add the word phototshirtsummer to your tags for easy identification.

I look forward to seeing what wonderful shirts you guys come up with and remember, it’s all in the name of fun!

If you have any questions, post them in the forums

Yours in top quality Photo Tshirts

Kitsmumma