Re: Printing T-shirts
Hey folks,
I've just been to see my old print making teacher about screen printing t-shirt. Since we are only looking at making a few shirts, it'd be quite expencive for us to go out and get all the equiptment we need. We'd be looking at; around $30 for a cheap screen, $3-4 per shirt, $40 for the photostencil emolsion, $10-15 for ink and $20 to get the screen cleaned at the end (unless someones got a high pressure hose...). Also, we'd need to have access to a darkroom and UV lamp to expose the stencil. So..... Iv been told that the companies "Jones Bros" and "Tee Shirt Graphics" are both good for getting t-shirts printed. Jones Bros will also just make up the stencil for us (for a fee) so we could print them our selves without actually buying the equiptment. Another option would be to cruise over to the RMIT fine art faculty and see if they have some screen printing equiptment we could use.
I've just been to see my old print making teacher about screen printing t-shirt. Since we are only looking at making a few shirts, it'd be quite expencive for us to go out and get all the equiptment we need. We'd be looking at; around $30 for a cheap screen, $3-4 per shirt, $40 for the photostencil emolsion, $10-15 for ink and $20 to get the screen cleaned at the end (unless someones got a high pressure hose...). Also, we'd need to have access to a darkroom and UV lamp to expose the stencil. So..... Iv been told that the companies "Jones Bros" and "Tee Shirt Graphics" are both good for getting t-shirts printed. Jones Bros will also just make up the stencil for us (for a fee) so we could print them our selves without actually buying the equiptment. Another option would be to cruise over to the RMIT fine art faculty and see if they have some screen printing equiptment we could use.
posted by Braden at 4:33 PM
2 Comments:
i think 1 have a screen and squigee and ink at home, i think i have red and white ink. it would be a lot cheaper to get my mum to send it to us, prob under $10, so that would just leave the photo emulsion stencil cost. though we could just use a normal stencil, if the design is simple enough... then its only really the cost of the postage, and t-shirts...
see you monday
Sweet, we could use cut paper stecils with can be fairly accurate... i much prefer the idea of making our own shirts rather than having some else make them for us
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