Every printed t-shirt you own was made one of two ways. The difference is not a detail of manufacturing: it decides what the artwork can look like, how the shirt feels, and how the print ages. Here is what actually separates them. Screen printing lays ink on top A screen is a fine mesh stretched on a frame, blocked everywhere except where the ink should pass. The printer pushes thick plastisol ink through that opening onto the fabric, then cures it at around 160 degrees Celsius. The ink sits on...
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