There is a local shop here that prints t shirts. My question is, If I was able to print out a photo from the internet, could they blow it up and print it onto a t-shirt? I was also wondering, is there program I can purchase where you can do this yourself?
You can get a special papper which you print onto and iron straight onto tshirts and also a special gel where you print it on normal papper and paint this goo on the back of the paper while its ontop of the tshirt and it transfers it through. You should find it in craft shops and habberdashery shops.
I have a iron-on transfer maker.. It comes with a program to alter and design images (although I dont use it.. I use adobe photoshop) and it came with like 50 sheets of the transfer paper.. I think it cost about 15 bucks at staples
the screen printer here requires a minimum order of like $50 or something to make the screen and such.............
The only shop i've ever been to that will do it for you cost an arm and a leg, which really pissed me off. but that $15 program sounds really really cool. I am DYING to do screen prints on shirts. I did it once through the caffe press website and it cost me like $56 for it and it looked like SHIT.
Not only is there a minimum payment for the t-shirt order, but also swipeing a pic off of the internet irritates us. The DPI has to be a high resolution. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "Oh just pull the logo off of our website". But that's ok, the art charge goes up when I have to do that. When it has a low DPI (most are 72-150) when the image is inlarged to fit a t-shirt.. it gets either fuzzy, pixilated or bitmapped. There is an art program.. but it will cost you a couple Franklins. Even with the program, if you do not have the original graphic... it's still going to do one ogf the three things I mentioned. IF you did a photograph, you would need to do a 4 color process. That's where it gets expensive. Take it from someone in the industry. If you are going to do one shirt.. print it at home on iron-on transfer paper.
i love those iron on transfers... such good ideas!i like having pictures on my shirts, i mostly steal them from websites and fuck with them in photoshop. screenprinting isusually wicked spensive, and im really poor, so yeah, i dont go that route. peace and love
All you need to do this at home is a printer and get some iron on thingys at wal-mart or something. I know they sell em, but I dont know what they are called. All you do it print the picture onto that iron on paper stuff and then iron it on a shirt! I am sure that the printing shop would have much better quality and would last longer!
If your going to take it to a printers if its a jpeg makes sure its a VERY HIGH RES and if its a logo try if you can to make it a vector image.
