/fa/ - Fashion

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I have two print shops at my disposal with a shitton of different equipment and printing processes available but the one I use most commonly for this stuff is called Direct-To-Garment printing (or just DTG). Though this isn't entirely accurate I've heard some people refer to it as the industry equivalent of a giant home inkjet printer for fabrics, which I guess is kind of close enough. It's a big CMYK printer that shoots the ink straight into the fabric almost like a dye (rather than laying it on top of the fabric like traditional screen printing), and then the shirt gets heat cured, locking the ink in. It ends up leaving the shirt with a soft/smooth feel to where you can't even feel a difference between a blank shirt and one that's been printed on, plus it doesn't eventually crack or peel with age like screen printing does. If you take shit care of it when you wash it (using super abrasive detergents and drying on the hottest setting, for example) it can eventually start to fade a bit but it takes a long time for that to happen and isn't usually that noticeable. Pic related, I'm wearing this shirt right now, which I printed back in March 2016 and have worn quite a bit and it still looks great.
The only drawback to the process (or mine, at least) is that I can't print on darker-colored shirts. With the ink getting shot into the fabric itself rather than laid on top of it it kind of blends into the color of the shirt. There are newer models of my printer that are CMYK+white ink that print differently and can overcome this issue, but I have yet to invest in it. In that case I either switch over to traditional screen printing (which comes with all the pros/cons I'm sure everyone's already familiar with) or I outsource to a friend who has a newer DTG printer, but that of course ends up being a little more costly.

I see a couple of you ordered shirts. My local post office is closed on Saturdays so I'll send them out Monday morning.