viewme 0 Posted March 22, 2009 how is the difference if we do it with Silk screening, vinyl transfer and print directly on tshirt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Renegade 2 Posted March 22, 2009 Really a personal preference and graphic & garment dependant answer. I'd rather have vinyl for 2 or 3 colors if it is a cost effective quantity. Plastisol is nice for multicolor designs, but I'd prefer to avoid halftones for some designs and I'd just do them with digital transfers if it was on a light colored garment. Haven't found any opaque transfers that I like for dark color garments yet, so that would probably push me back to plastisol if vinyl didn't make since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jheyne 0 Posted March 22, 2009 I think quantity might be the big factor here. If you decorating 300 garments, it will definately be more efficient and cost effective to screen print them. If it's a relatively small quantity and needs to be personalized, you are probably better off with vinyl or heat transfers. Sometimes people want a combination of both, screen printed design on the front (for say a softball team) and names and numbers on the back of the jerzee's (genreally done with vinyl and a heat press). I've been screen printing for a number of years and we have done transfers (got started with just a heat press and and a computer and and an epson printer) and this may be bias, but I feel you get better quality product with screen printing, tends to hold up longer than transfers. Still new to the vinyl end other than applying lettering on a few shirts, i avoided the vinyl for a long time, something I now wish I hadn't done . Just my 2 cents. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites