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Screen Printing is more than likely what you're most familiar with when you think about custom t-shirt design. From simple, one-color designs to stunning four-color processes - this method of laying ink over the garment is the industry standard for most designs. Custom Screen printing is the process of coating a screen with photosensitive emulsion to create a stencil that the ink can flow through to create the design.

A favorite among fishermen, hunters, and athletes, sublimation offers the brightest, most photorealistic images without the sometimes bulky feel of printing. The image literally dyes into the threads of the t-shirt fabric, guaranteeing that your design will last as long as the shirt- or longer.

Custom Sublimation printing uses polyester (not your granny's polyester, don't worry) t-shirts combined with a special dye and paper to literally dye the image onto the t-shirt.This method is much less complicated than screen printing, but there are some restrictions. Sublimated color blends with the color of the t-shirt on which they are printed, so the best result comes from printing on white or light colored garments.

Remember when your mom bought those printable iron-on sheets at the grocery store to make you a shirt for your tenth birthday? Yeah, it's like that - but like 10,000 times not as crappy. Heat Transfer paper is used in textiles and arts and crafts projects and you've more than likely seen its handiwork at every craft market that you've ever been to.

Not just for signs anymore, this special vinyl can be cut and applied to a garment via a heat press. This process can be used for jersey numbers or any simple design.

Heat Transfer Vinyl, or HTV for short, is a special type of vinyl that can be used on certain fabrics and t-shirts to create designs It comes in a roll or sheet form with an adhesive backing so it can be cut, weeded (which means removing the background vinyl), and placed on a t-shirt for heat application.

Outdoor grade vinyl decals can be cut into a variety of designs and colors to reflect your interests. You see them every day on cars and business windows and should last years without fading or cracking. A wall or car decal is a vinyl sticker that is affixed to any smooth surface for decoration and informational purposes.