Vinyl Vs Screen Print Shirts

There are advantages to screen printing.

Vinyl vs screen print shirts. Handling small jobs means keeping your customers happy and keeping running costs low when you use vinyl printing. Vinyl printing is generally reserved for small runs 1 12 items because it takes less time to set up than screen printing. Screen printing on the other hand provides a much higher detail of print regardless of how complicated or simple the designs might be. Heat transfer vinyl printing.

It doesn t look too bad in the picture but it looks worse in person. One being that big jobs get done a lot faster with a lot less labor. I dare you to tell the difference between it and screen print. Trick with vinyl is if you want a shiny finish use a teflon sheet for your final press.

Each screen can only hold one or at most two designs which can later be transported into t shirts bags and more. Htv was my go to shirt making process until i discovered how easy it is to screen print t shirts using adhesive vinyl and my vinyl cutter. Yeah i second you d be nuts to screen print player names numbers. The configuration of the screen printing takes much longer than the vinyl print but as soon as the configuration is finished the printing process is rapid.

Screen printing may at times produce designs that fade or crack all over it. However screen printing is perfect for bulk orders 12 or more because you don t need to change the setup from shirt to shirt. The picture on the left is the screen print on the right is vinyl. Screen printing with dark ink in particular the ink just soaks into light colored t shirts.

Just one screen can produce a large number of products which is why for screen printing you must always order in bulk. However this method is much slower than screen printing as each t shirt needs its own set up. Everyone has their vinyl favorite mine is spectracut by imprintables. For this process you can buy vinyl sheets of various colors from arts and.

Once the ink is dry you can t really feel the inked areas compared to the rest of the shirt. High speed is due to the fact that nothing has to change from shirt to shirt as long as the designs remain the same. That s due to the fact that the set up time is little relative to that of screen printing. Screen printing is the right method if you want to work on large orders.

Vinyl is the way to go. Vinyl is well suited for very small runs which we would consider anything from 1 to 12 shirts this is because the set up time is much quicker than that of screen printing. This doesn t make it a faster overall method though as every shirt still requires individual set up which becomes too time consuming beyond the 12 shirt mark.