Putting up different designs, fonts to create a fantastic custom t-shirt goes a long way before you get your final piece in hand. This adorable and comfortable garment is now catering to professionals who love to see themselves disciplined and uniformed all the time. Every company looks forward to receiving something that stands out its brand in the market. And, when it comes to creating custom t-shirts for your company, the kind of printing method you use plays a vital role. 

Reading this, you might be wondering which kind of t-shirt printing method should you choose before you place your t-shirts order. It is good to brainstorm, and in the meanwhile, we are here with some popular t-shirt printing methods in India. 

So, next time you order your t-shirts, you will know to pick up the right t-shirt printing style. Here comes all of them: 

Types Of T-Shirt Printing Methods In India

1. Screen Printing

Screen Printing is the most preferred technique of t-shirt printing in India. It is conveniently done using a t-shirt printing machine. Screen printing would require you to create a stencil, which is placed in front of the screen. The screen is made up of nylon mesh. Once the stencil is fixed well, ink is spread on the stencil resulting in creating an impression on the fabric where the excess ink is wiped away. When your project is large, screen printing is the most affordable option. This is also a reason that this technique is widely used. 

Features of Screen Printing: 

• Can print multiple colours. 
• It is faster than any other kind of printing technique
• Provide a soft and supple finish. 
• An excellent option for mass printing. 

2. Direct to Garments

The next in our list is direct to garment printing. As the name suggests, this technique involved printing directly on the garment. This method is yet not popular because this is the latest t-shirt printing technique in the market. Can you imagine how this method would work? 

Well, just imagine a flatbed printer where your fabric is placed on a conveyor belt. As the fabric reaches near the toner, it will print the required text and design in one go. For a perfect setup to print through this printing technique, you need to purchase a Direct to Garment Printer. The printer is expensive, and it is mostly used in professional printing. 

Features of DTG Printing: 

• Can print your t-shirts is all possible colours. 
• Cost per t-shirt is quite low. 
• Provides soft and excellent finish
• Can support any kind of designs. 

3. Dye Sublimation

You must have come across fully printed t-shirts in the market. Well, those t-shirts are printed with the help of dye sublimation. This kind of printing is used for oversized printing. When you look forward to transforming your t-shirt into a great form of art, this is the printing technique you opt for. 

Features of Dye Sublimation: 

• Used to create unique patterns on t-shirts
• It offers great convenience to use different graphics, colours and styles.

4. Heat Press Printing

Imagine a situation where you have an order of say 10 pieces of custom t-shirts. Given the size of the order, screen printing and DTG would be very expensive. Heat Press Printing is the way out to you. This technique of printing a t-shirt is the most economical when the order size is small. This is a method that uses a special paper called transfer paper.

This process works very simply. A design is applied on a transfer paper, the paper is then placed on the t-shirt while applying heat and pressure. This process is done until the heat softens the ink and the same is transferred to the t-shirt. 

Features of Heat Press Printing:

• It provides the most durable prints. 
• Ideal for small orders
• It is a great technique to print intricate designs that are not possible to print with other printing techniques. 

Vinyl Cutting

This is also one of the common printing methods t-shirt manufacturers follow in India. Here, the maker uses a soft cloth, cuts it into different shapes or designs to transfer them to a t-shirt. This technique utilizes the heat press method to create the final print on the t-shirt. This method is very good when the order is too small, like one or two similar pieces. However, one can create bulk pieces with this method, but that might take a little more time. 

Features of Vinyl Cutting: 

• Ideal for printing multiple garments. 
• Offers you the room to use different colours and gradients. 
• No scope of fading or cracking of the print
• It is the best method for printing, slogans, small words, graphics and more. 
• This method is not suitable for printing elaborate prints. 

How Do You Choose The Right T-Shirt Printing Method? 

After knowing the t-shirt printing techniques, you should start musing over the thought that which one would suit your order the most. Here is a quick guide from us that would help: 

• You must opt for direct to garment printing style for a softer feel t-shirt with various colours and gradients of your design. 
• Further, Direct to Garment technique works the best for printing photos on a soft material t-shirt. 
• When you have planned an illustration or drawing of an elaborate company logo and need t-shirts in bulk, screen printing comes handy and affordable. 
• When your t-shirts are expected to have certain names, company logo, numbers in solid colours, you can go for screen printing when the order is in bulk and cut vinyl when the pieces to be produced are less than 25. 

Understand your target audience and the people who are going to wear these t-shirts. Before selecting your t-shirt printing technique, it is very important to know who are going to use these t-shirts. You can take a survey and find out which method would suit you the best. 

If you are looking for good-quality custom t-shirts, get in touch with us at Champu!