Screenprinting - T shirt printing / vinyl print advice needed

Hello all,

I am looking for a cheap good quality t-shirt printers that will print my design onto some white t-shirts for me.

this is the design i am looking at printing, its for my girlfriend! haha

so if you could let me know of any decent places that would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

ben

Hi, I want to make a custom tshirt as a present, and I know the lady prefers white drawings on a black tshirt rather than black drawing on a white one. I prepared the image, scanned it and faffed up in photoshop. Now I need:

1) someone who prints custom tshirs (in an ideal world on fair trade cotton)
2) someone who can do (1) and take my image and print it without fuckups.

I can provide the original 'black ink on white paper' image, the same 'white on black background' or even a PNG of either with the background turned 'transparent'.

I have seen 'white on black background' custom tshirt but they were shit because the black background got printed as well. Any ideas?

Can anyone point me to a place who do cheap screen printing(possibly in London).

what quantity, how many colours, what do you think is cheap etc…

around 25 but may increase quantity if I get more interest - 4 colors. I really dont know the prices for getting this service done.

t-shirts will be about 3-4 quid a unit - it's about £50 set up per screen [you'll need a screen per colour] so you're looking at 200 set up, this normally doesn't change regardless of if you're printing 2 or 200 shirts

with production costs plus vat etc you're looking at between 10 to 12 quid per t for that quantity

Excellent Screen Print people here in Birmingham:

http://missionprint.co.uk/

They do loads of street/skate clothing and have done art stuff for people including Banksy.

Only Charge £20-£30 per screen too.

Got to do a short run t shirt order - 3 colours, seam to seam across the chest

budget is not unreasonable for this…

What's me best option

cheers in advance

.... depends on the quantity. A short run used to be (about 10 years ago) 50+ shirts, but these days with the advent of digital stuff a short run starts at 1 shirt. Until 2 years ago I ran a print and copy shop - then, a screen printer would probably charge you about £50 per screen (1 per colour) and then just a few bob each to run them off. We used to print shirts from laser transfers run through our Xerox and we charged £10 each with small discounts after the first 5 shirts. The Xerox option is limited to transfer size, usually A4 or A3.

Hope this is some help.

cheers conkee - Short run is just that, 4 t shirts max

I know you can get heat transfer vinyl for one colour t shirt graphics done abd have used them meself but I was wondering if you there was a way of printing a design onto vinyl that you could then iron on to the shirt…

they are for a prize so laser transfers might look a bit 'snappysnaps' if you know what I mean

Have you spoken to Murtle or Dmczone?

There used to be a place in Covent Garden that did printing but I think they moved as they redeveloped the shops, not sure if they are still around.

I had a stupidly complex run of t-shirts to print for work, something along the lines of 250 shirts, 15 different designs, silly small numbers of each in sizes s-xxl, some designs full colour, some 2 colour etc. Went and had a chat with the people that run Western Printers on Cleveland St and they were incredibly helpful throughout, and came through with a ludicrously quick turn-around to top it all off.
They don't screen as far as I know, but they do Direct to Garment, transfer and vinyl stuff. I've got a lot of t-shirt related phone numbers saved at work I can pass on to you tomorrow if needs be, including some screen printing places.

that western printers sound like a good hook up

I normally use shirtysomething for t-shirt printing but it's just not cost effective in this instance

cheers 6pt

Doesn't JD have the required equipment?

idressmyself.co.uk?

Doesn't JD have the required equipment?

I only have a heat press that i use for heat transfers. I dont actually make the transfers yet. Looking into it at the moment as i tried to run a few t's for prizes once and they wanted £15 per t-shirt for a basic one colour print.

I need to quote a job for T-shirt design including printing. Does anyone have a rough idea how much to print 4 colours on 30 T-shirts?

ask wayno or dmc zone

ring Rog at www.shirtysomething

each colour is going to cost you about 40 notes for the screen then you've got the t-shirt and printing costs,

hijack
does anyone have any experience of printing onto cordura?
thanks in advance

ring Rog at www.shirtysomething

each colour is going to cost you about 40 notes for the screen then you've got the t-shirt and printing costs,

I can only further this recommendation, sensational service and quality.

Coolness, cheers guys. I might not get the job but I do need to give them an guestimation. Any rough educated guess at how much in total?

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anyone got any experience/recommendations for digital printing onto fabric, in particular silk?

I have been in contact with FabPad at UEL but it's going to be expensive, even for a test run. Any other knowledge much welcomed.

Oh - its like that is it stelle?

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