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Lining up an Image on a T-Shirt for Screen Printing

12/9/2013

An important aspect of screen printing a T-Shirt properly is getting the print straight on the shirt. A print that is not square and runs up or down hill will surely end up in the rag pile.

Once you line up the screen to the image to be printed, you should be ready to print a full run of shirts without the screen moving.

Then it is as simple as putting each shirt on the platen in the same place to get a consistent placement of the image.

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Athletic Wear or Team Shirt Printing

12/9/2013

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Athletic Wear Printing The content of this article is an excerpt from the ASPA training course The Secrets of Printing T-Shirts and How to Make Big Money!

ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SELL “TEAM” WEAR?
If you are one of the many people who enjoy sports and think that getting into the screen printing business to print athletic apparel will be a great way to make money, let's discuss some of the realities first. Sure, there is money to be made printing team wear and athletic jerseys, but you are usually going to be dealing with a type of customer who is usually less than ideal. You will find that most team shirt orders are usually small and complicated involving personalized names and numbers with each shirt having to be a specific size for each player. Printing team wear for leagues, school teams, and other organized sports groups often involves a certain amount of politics often making it difficult to land orders if you are an outsider.

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Lining up an Image on a T-Shirt for Screen Printing

Athletic Wear or Team Shirt Printing

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