Vinyl Vs Screen Print Shirts

The picture on the left is the screen print on the right is vinyl.

Vinyl vs screen print shirts.

One being that big jobs get done a lot faster with a lot less labor. Everyone has their vinyl favorite mine is spectracut by imprintables. Screen printing on the other hand provides a much higher detail of print regardless of how complicated or simple the designs might be. Each screen can only hold one or at most two designs which can later be transported into t shirts bags and more.

High speed is due to the fact that nothing has to change from shirt to shirt as long as the designs remain the same. It doesn t look too bad in the picture but it looks worse in person. Trick with vinyl is if you want a shiny finish use a teflon sheet for your final press. Handling small jobs means keeping your customers happy and keeping running costs low when you use vinyl printing.

Ideally screen printing will only work when you have a minimum of 100 t shirts so for a small number try vinyl printing. The configuration of the screen printing takes much longer than the vinyl print but as soon as the configuration is finished the printing process is rapid. There are advantages to screen printing. Vinyl is well suited for very small runs which we would consider anything from 1 to 12 shirts this is because the set up time is much quicker than that of screen printing.

However this method is much slower than screen printing as each t shirt needs its own set up. Screen printing with dark ink in particular the ink just soaks into light colored t shirts. Vinyl printing is suitable for very small runs of up to 16 t shirts. Screen printing is the right method if you want to work on large orders.

This doesn t make it a faster overall method though as every shirt still requires individual set up which becomes too time consuming beyond the 12 shirt mark. Yeah i second you d be nuts to screen print player names numbers. Heat transfer vinyl printing. For this process you can buy vinyl sheets of various colors from arts and.

Vinyl and screen printing color and detail when it comes to details such as shapes and numbers on t shirts and jerseys the mixing and brightening with vinyl decal printing will vanish. I dare you to tell the difference between it and screen print. Vinyl printing is generally reserved for small runs 1 12 items because it takes less time to set up than screen printing. Screen printing may at times produce designs that fade or crack all over it.

Just one screen can produce a large number of products which is why for screen printing you must always order in bulk. Once the ink is dry you can t really feel the inked areas compared to the rest of the shirt. Vinyl is the way to go.