T-SHIRTS

Hi guys,

I left some pointers on the previous entry about the different T-shirt production techniques. I hope they were useful. Sometimes you should design a piece around the production technique that you are restricted to. In the case of heat-transfer, as I said before, simple shapes (just for the outline trimming, the inside print can be very intricate) that are self contained work best. Of course you can always spend hours trimming and get it to look very good (Eric's wings). In general, having a lot of separate elements (like in Eva's design) forces you to have a lot of "transparent" material. The problem is that this material is very plasticky and it gets yellow after a few washes, this becomes more obvious in the not-printed transparent areas.

Maybe this will help illustrate the point: