SPOT COLOR
Refers to 1-8 solid individual colors without any blending, etc. If you just want a printed shirt and don’t want to overthink it, you are looking for a standard spot color print. 99% of the screen printed tshirts you see daily are spot color jobs.

In fact - if you don’t say anything at all about the printing style, this is what you will get.

HALFTONE
A halftone image is made up of a series of dots rather than one solid color. the dots can be different sizes. Larger dots are used to represent darker, more dense areas of the image, while smaller dots are used for lighter areas. If you are printing a photograph or any sort of gradient, your job will employ the use of halftones.

VINTAGE
We have developed a method to soften and thin the screen printed ink. The result gives a brand new shirt the look and feel that it has gone thru years of wear. The print area using this method can barely be felt with your hand and works great with softer ring spun and fashion fit tshirts.

DISTRESSED
A distressed print actually appears cracked and broken. This is a process that alters the artwork to mimic the way an old shirt may appear.

DISCHARGE
Discharge printing is a method that actually removes (or discharges) the dye of the garment where your artwork lies. The result is a print with NO hand whatsoever (you cannot feel the print at all). 

Because discharge removes the dye and relies on the natural color of the garment underneath, this process can offer slightly different results for each print.

PROCESS / SIMULATED PROCESS
Process printing, four color process printing - or CMYK printing is an advanced method of printing that uses four colors to reproduce every visible color in a given image. Its an amazing procedure but honestly it’s way too involved to explain in detail. Because it only works on a white base - we are only mentioning it because so many designers ask. To be honest, the BEST route to get a full color range print on a shirt is using SIMULATED PROCESS - this method mimics the blending and separation used as described in process printing above but works on NON white shirts and with more predictable results. Our standard for simulated process printing rarely uses less than 8 colors. This style offers the highest level of detail and color range on colored shirts.

SPECIALTY INKS
As described on our ink page, there is an ink to create just about any look and feel you are aiming to achieve. We have a few listed here but can pretty much make something look and feel like a day-glo basketball that glows in the dark…if that’s what you are aiming for.

ECO-FRIENDLY
We are covered in ink all day long so believe us when we say that we take every precaution to have the lowest possible impact on our environment and selves. Our standard inks are VOC FREE – PVC and PHTHALATE FREE – we have printed for some HUGE children’s lines and have gone thru extensive VOC testing. Final results confirmed FAR below our personal and the government allowance for volatile substances.