Custom-t-shirts_denver: Design Lab

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Is your favorite old tee worn out? need it replaced?

Ready to Burn your Husbands favorite old Workout shirt because its ratty, faded of full of holes?

Or maybe you want to replace that  Myrtle Beach summer of 72 shirt you lost years ago..

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Local to Denver...
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No, this is not a joke.. We have successfully provided these needed service for Dozens of very happy customers already.

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Now it is easier then ever to get just one, quality custom printed garment like t-shirt or sweatshirt.

The new digital age is here. Our Direct to garment, Print on demand, full color large format digital
direct garment printer  allows you to create your full color image, photograph,artwork or whatever
onto Custom printed clothing.

We now offer online design software where you can create and upload graphics and save on any art charges.

The typical turn around time for digital tee shirt printing is just a few days. This state of the art textile print system
will print any color garment! Using an advanced white in management system, the results are astonishing.
Fully photographic images with vibrant striking colors and contrast.

the overall print or imaging area is a massive 16? X 45" ! That's practically the entire front of a hooded sweat shirt.

Our online design studio has dozens of typefaces and fonts to select from and manipulate. Arch, bend twist. Create different colored outlines.
Place it over your photo or sketch. There is an impressive array of full color clip art to choose from and manipulate. Add several together to get your design.
You are the artist. Upload a professional design at no extra cost.

We are located in Lakewood Colorado near Golden. Just off Colfax near 1-70. At Choice Image we've been serving the entire Denver front range area with custom screen printed and decorated apparel & event wear Since 1982.
We do not print Vinyl stickers, car graphics, cards, Kites to condoms... We only print textiles, apparel, clothing garments and garment accessories... That's why we are experts at our craft....
We specialize in High end silk screen print processes like, indexing, spot color halftones, simulated process and other advanced techniques.
Here at Choice Image we've quickly gained a reputation for doing advanced imaging other shops said cannot be done. If you are an artist or photographer and demand an expert reproduction of your design work, give us a look.

Our prices are competitive, we are a small local company with excellent customer service and strive to make our customers happy with the entire process. We do not Wallmart price match.... even if you do want the same quality as the Cheap printer.... :-)

Give us a call to see how we can help you with beautiful event merch for your band, car club, church or other fund raising ventures.
We love creating Custom stuff for local high schools, Get noticed Kids... be different then your classmates with your own custom design apparel.

$15.00 dollars gets you a custom printed 5.6 oz. heavy weight 100% cotton tee shirt in your choice of size and color! ANY Color! in just a few days.

It's Viper Time

Get ready Denver.... The Viper has arrived!

There has been a huge demand for one off, one of a kind Full color large format Photographically printed apparel like hooded sweat shirts... Till now the screen or set up charges where just to much for small runs like One garment. and digital images with there thousands of colors where expensive to silk screen print.

Also the demand has been high for eco friendly and soft feeling water based inks..... While a couple of shops in Denver have been experimenting with Digital direct print on demand apparel decoration systems... None have the capability of printing White ink in a limed art to produce apparel imaging an ANY COLOR CLOTHING!

The Rules have changed Denver..... It's here now!

Design you own custom t-shirt hooded sweats&garments.
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Large format printing area..... 16" X 45" any color garment!
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Custom screen printed & embroidered t-shirts to promote and Advertise

Tee shirts are the most cost effective advertising today. T-shirts and their wearers are walking billboards, they reach every nook and cranny of the street that any regular advertising medium cannot reach. With T shirts being one of the most economical modes of advertising every business should be looking at custom printed T-shirts for their advertising needs. There are numerous screen printers and T shirt printers that one can find in every local city, Nationwide. With customized printed and Embroidered T-shirts at varying rates to fit business needs.

When it comes to customized printed T shirts, you can order for a business development, party or event. If you have a funky party happening and wish to distribute T shirts to the crowd, Screen printers are your best option. Similarly business events and conferences demand the awareness of their occurrence and screen printed t-shirts are the best way of announcing it. With a variety of options of screen printers available, choose the one that provides the service that you require. You can choose from a whole host of T-shirts materials, styles, colors, weaves, patterns and more, that can be screen printed with your corporate logos, advertisements and funky designs for that chic party you are organizing. Nothing is too hard for screen printers to put on T-shirts and your imagination is the limit with T-shirt design.

There are a large variety of materials to choose starting at really low prices to high quality premium materials and branded clothing for your customised screen printed T-shirts. You can opt for simple round neck tees, or v neck tees, polo tees and other styles too depending on your budget. Provide your design requirements and the screen printers will give you your customized printed t-shirts. With all the options available, go for screen printers today and see your brand walking down the street tomorrow!

In an increasingly commoditized market, marketers have to resort to spending greater sums of money not to mention offer better creativity to ensure that their products or services catch the eye of prospective customers. Unfortunately almost every advertiser is already on the media bandwagon, be it the television, radio, internet or billboards. People are flooded with mails in their inbox, and mobile phones from companies that want to sell their products and services. In such an age of information overload, custom t-shirts are a novel and cheap way to create an impact about your product in the consumer's mind. This article talks about the ways to do this using branded clothing.

Cost Savings Per Message

Traditional mass media like radio, television, newspapers and magazines work out extremely expensive per OTS or "opportunity to see". Direct marketing is customized and expensive to produce. Also, online advertising or tele-calling are not the cheapest ways to communicate one's message. Given that marketing budgets are being cut down and more pressure is being placed on measurable results, marketing people need a cheaper and more effective way to reach their audience. Custom t shirts can help here. They cost very little to produce and are a great advertisement for your company for as long as they are wearable.

Ways Of Using Custom Printed Shirts

While these custom t shirts can be given to employees, customers, partners and even vendors as gifts, they also make great prizes for contests that you might run in events, business meetings, and dealer meets. Having a standard uniform with a logo for your event managers helps in advertising as well as gives people a sense of belonging to their companies. Customers who wear your t shirts act as endorsers for your brand and given that they have no stake, a very credible advertising platform.

Things To Keep In Mind

When you make your own shirts, it is important to remember that any custom t shirts that carry your company logo or mission statement are representative of company values. Things like cloth quality, color, cut and design will speak volumes about the company. If, you are not confident of manufacturing them yourself and don't know any good t shirt printers, you could consider outsourcing the job to a reputed T shirt manufacturer brand who can produce the custom t shirts for you.

In summary, custom t shirts are a great and easy way to make your brand popular. It is important to keep the design trendy or classic to ensure that the image it projects is congruent with your own picture. Keeping a ready stock of these t shirts is very useful for any event. They can also be used as a uniform for temporary employees, giveaways at contests or just keepsakes to remind you of specific company milestones. It is best not to have too many messages on the t-shirt. Different t-shirts can be produced for different events. Everybody loves free clothes if they are of good quality and they will be happy to advertise your brand by wearing it.

So you want to create your own Custom t-shirt...

I see this question a lot...... I want to create artwork or a design for imaging onto t-shirts,apparel or other clothing items, Where do I start?

I also see a lot of Fluff articles and answers talking about "thinking of the message you want to convey & typography. But that is for corporate advertising campaign shirts and not
a common person just wanting cool artwork or custom designs on say a hoodie.

If you are wanting to get your art on a garment these are the questions you need to answer and the things you will need to know........

First off, it is my experience that most people asking this are going to attempt to do the art, Illustration or graphic on a personal computer. This is because most people know
that the graphics and reproduction Industry has probably experienced the greatest advances fro the use of computers. So let me start by saying that you can do the art or design however you want.
Be it drawing or painting on paper and canvas or sketching on wood.... all of this can be scanned into a digital file format.

The first and most critical question is.... How will the art be reproduced ? What process will be used to image the garment? This dramatically effects the type of File format needed,

Here are the options you will find......
* Screen Printing ( this process has been around for thousands of years and is the preferred method for quality textile printing & Imaging.)
• Transfers ( Ether screen printed direct onto the transfer or images onto the transfer paper by Lithographic press or your PC inkjet printer. then Ironed or heat presses onto the tee)
• Flexography ( this uses a rubber plated press to image your art onto a vinyl decal that is then applied to the garment.... I'm not even going to recommend this process.)
• Hand Painted ( Thats right, you just use the t-shirt cotton as your canvas and hand paint it. weather by airbrush or Stencil pouncing or any other art technique.)
* Direct Digital ( Last but not least, this technology has com a long way. it is refereed to sometimes as print on demand... it uses a large bubble or inkjet printer to print right on the t-shirt.
basf has developed a White ink and so colored garments can now be used. While it is not near the Quality of silk screen printing, the lack of screens and (set-ups) makes it cost effective
for doing small runs like One shirt.

The second most important question is.... What color garment are you going to print. this is a multi part question to ponder as the art is going to be either a Negative or positive image.
Also , as well as using the garment Contrast and Value, the color itself can be used in several ways to make the most striking Custom t-shirt design really POP! using Color theory
and color building or (tertiary) color mixing to achieve amazing art effects.


The particulars of Digital art files as applied to the above reproduction processes for Garment and Clothing decoration and imaging.......

Let's start with Direct Digital as it seems to fit the needs of most common people wanting to design their own custom apparel...

DIRECT DIGITAL
Pretty much any digital file can be used as long as it is saved to a graphic standard like .png ( Portable Network Graphic) or .jpeg ( Joint Photographers Expert Group)
This art is going to be a Bit-map or Raster based Image ( pixels or squares of color and value information) so it has to be to a specific resolution ( number of Pixels per square inch or PPI).
Keep in mind that the file has to be scanned in at or created at the proper resolution, It cannot be given more pixels or enlarged without destroying the clarity of the art.
The most Common resolution is 300 ppi with the art being the finished physical size like 12 X 12. this will be a large file even with the jpeg compression.
It is important to keep in mind that RGB ( red Green Blue) Color values CANOT be reproduced with this method as it uses the (cmyk) Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black) Like that of your desktop printer...
RGB values are bright like Neons and have to be Screen printed with specialty inks.

HAND PAINTED
What you see is what you get.... Have fun! There are no rules here.... Try painting black ink onto a black tee then spraying bleach over it and washing or wax batiking!

HEAT TRANSFERS
I'm not even going to discuss this as 99% of the people who try this or even get it professionally done are VERY unhappy with the results. Unless Direct screen printed transfers are used
a window of plastic transfer plastic is left on the garment unless trimmed prior to applying with heat.. the screen printed method is of course for Large Quantities of the same image.
Lets just say that this process makes Wall-mart shirts seem like Million dollar goods.


FLEXOGRAPHY

I'm So sorry you let some bumper sticker sign printing company convince you they do apparel imaging, :-O I'd ask for my money back! Seriously! Unless of course you like
having a plastic bullet proof patch that makes you sweat cause the cotton can no longer breath, scratching your skin. :-(

SILK SCREEN PRINTING

Very last and NOT VERY least..... this is the method used for almost all apparel decoration. from your Pink Floyd concert shirts to Wall-Mart & the St. Patrick's day "Kiss-Me" shirts they throw off the Parade floats.
The technique was invented in the orient almost 4000 years ago, and has come a long way... there are hundreds of specialty inks that can be printed like, Glitters, shimmers & metallics, to Puff inks that raise and glow in the dark, or change color with ultraviolet sunlight or heat. even Clear inks and foils...

This is probably what you are after and therefor the meat of this article.... Silk screen printers use professional equipment and require professional art files to produce imprinted apparel. So if you are going to create an image
for screen printed tee shirts or garments Be aware that while the Computer graphics revolution has indeed revolutionized the industry, the standards for the actual production art mechanicals is still much the same as it was when the first tee shirt was printed back in the early 1960's

What does this mean to you?
If you do your art on paper or canvas scanned to digital format or as a bit-map pixel image, a screen print production artist will need to get it ready for production, this is doe to the fact that most times SPOT color art is used and not CMYK that the digital PC equipment is set up for. And While there are some computer scripts called software that attempt this, the only expectable results are from a professional artist manually doing it via computer.
A single film positive is required for each ink color being printed!

If you are creating the design, Illustration or art on the computer, it can be made production ready by following a few rules..... Here they are.

VECTOR or Post-Script art is the needed format..... this is done with drawing programs not Photoshop! the programs used are Adobe Illustrator & Corel Draw. There are free ware programs that create Vector art like Inkscape, Skencil, Xara Xtreme, Gill and a host of others.

Vector graphics are resolution independent, using mathematical lines and curves, they can be scaled to any size with no loss of detail.
The Vector Graphics Rules for Screen Printing.......

Spot colors must be used..... Not RGB or CMYK! Don't forget to make the white spot or it will not produce a film!

All type and fonts must be converted to vector curves or outlines.!! with the billions of fonts the printer has, it will probably be one of thousands of different TIMES ROMANS then you used, and they do not need hundreds of more corrupt fonts sent their way :-O this is industry standard for all graphics!

Be leary of using transparency effect with spot color. be leary of filters that may blend spot colors with process or cmyk results.

When doing color percentages, gradients and color blending, The Industry Standard for dot gain is 29 percent or better on a hand press... Stay away from percentages that are more then 70 or they will become 100 percent on press. Also percents smaller then 10 may not image depending on the silk screen mesh count used due to thick ink colors like white!

Tertiary color building ( making red and yellow mix to orange or red and blue to purple on press) is done with a blend or color overlay.... Make sure to select OVERPRINT!

Be leery of placing screened text or type on top of the same solid color..... stoke it or dot can will make the Butted lines disappear.

Those are the main rules which will help you create a Custom tee shirt design, Screen ready with no art charges from the printer.....


Now for those Millions of people out thee who have a bootleg copy of Photoshop and enjoy it's power for creating photo collage's and painting..... this is why your art wont produce a quality screen print. Other then it is a jpeg you got off the internet and therefore is WAY to low of a resolution..... No matter What resolution file you create, Say Six terragazzillion pixels... the colors will never Butt register as will as Post script. so don't do Solid graphics in a PHOTO program.
If it used gradients and or halftones ( like a Photograph.... the edges of clean art , line-work and type will get the Ragged dot pattern of the screen printers halftone for reproduction of said gradients or tints..
Please ... Photoshop is the definitive answer for Photo type art, NOT GRAPHICS for reproduction other then the web and computer monitors!