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how to make money from screen printing geek t-shirts

what is screen printing

SCREEN PRINTING


Saturday, September 19, 2009

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This article will cover basically what is screen printing, what are the advantages of screen printing, types of screen printing, how is screen printing done, the screen printing equipment available in the market today. In order to run a home based t-shirt printing business, one has to choose an economical but effective t-shirt printing method. One also has to pick a particular or several niche in the t-shirt industry. We have several areas that one can choose when deciding the particular market to target. We have geek t-shirts, geek t-shirts, nerd t-shirts, dork t-shirts, geek t-shirts, geeky t-shirts, nerdy t-shirts, and a whole lot more. As for printing methods, we have transfer t-shirt printing, plastisol t-shirt printing, screen printing, direct to garment printing commonly known as DTG. There is also dye sublimation, embroidery, and vinyl. The method you choose depends on how much you are willing to invest and how much time you have to dedicate to your business. As time goes on, I will touch each topic but today I will dwell only on screen printing of t-shirts to make money.

So what is screen printing? There are many definitions of screen printing today online, but simply put in lay mans terms , screen printing is a method of t-shirt printing whereby you transfer an image or sayings to a t-shirt by applying ink through a stencil using a squeegee or similar equipment. In the long run you have a very high quality tee. Now this method is also called silk printing. Screen printing equipment is cheap, the method is flexible in that you can print on a wide range of materials… to be continued

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