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T Shirt Printing – Steps To Help Get Your T-shirts Printed

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

If you need t-shirts printed, you’ve come to the right place! PSI wants to align its results to your vision of the perfect screen printed t-shirt for your needs, so let us help you convey your ideas. Before you jump in though there are a few things to know to make sure you get the results you want. Here are just a few steps to consider…

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T Shirt Printing: Plastisol vs Water Based Inks

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Screen printing of t-shirts or any fabric necessitates a few important production decisions; arguably the most important of these is the choice between plastisol and Water Based Inks. These two types of ink are the core products used in textile screen printing, but differences in their manufacture, storage and application, result in strikingly different looks for  printed t shirts.

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T Shirt Printing Design Guide

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Creating unique and fitting designs for printing to t shirts can be quite different from the usual print design fare. The surface you plan to display your print on and the materials and method you chose to create the print both add physical limits to what is possible. Remember you are now dealing with screen printing inks and fabric! While a design might look great on paper the process of screen printing can result in wildly varying quality and color. (more…)

Screen Printing – Is It Outdated In The Digital Age?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

T-shirt screen printing is one of the longest lasting manual print processes. While many forms of print production have moved into the digital age textile screen printing for apparel has stood the test of time as the most cost effective method of printing on to t-shirts. Click “Full Story” below to read on… (more…)

T-shirt Screen Printing – How does it work? Part 2

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

T-shirt screen printing, as discussed in Part 1, has been around for a long time and continues to be the most effective form of t-shirt decoration.In Part 1 we had a look at the basic equipment used to screen print t-shirts. In part 2 we will begin to discuss the different processes involved in getting a concept from the imagination onto a t-shirt. (more…)

T-shirt Screen Printing – How does it work? Part 1

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

T-shirt screen printing has stood the test of time as a viable non-digital print solution. While evrything is going digital, the process of screen printing has stayed the same for many, many years but in saying that, at the most professional level, it is an extremely technical and intricate process with very little margin for error. And while the process hasn’t changed too much the technology used in the consumables ie Inks etc. has opened new ways of achieving specialised finishes with much less work.

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Hey We Have A New Site!!

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Welcome to our new site!!

It feels great to have it finally done. Props to our design team Alined for doing such a great job. You can see what you get when you get us to look after your design work!!

Keep an eye on this page as we will be regularly updating it with little tid bits to tantalize your thirst for knowledge and power. If you want to be the first to know…come on I know you are part of the microwave generation…then sign up above and we will send you our newsletter packed with info and special offers.

Anyway thanks for coming along and we look forward to working with you!!

PSI Team

TESTIMONIALS more »
"Thanks again for your great response i feel really welcomed and will stick with you. Cheers"
Ahleigh - Naturehead
"Hi Joel and Jodi, I got the tee today – thank you guys so much for getting it done so quickly – it looks fantastic! My partner is going to be sooooo happy with the result."
Jacque Webb

Get in contact with us now! We would love to talk with you and tailor a quote to your specific needs.

You can do that in 3 ways…

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Complete our online quoting form
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Phone 1300 853 474
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Why do you require vector images?

Vector images are made out of lines and shapes. This helps us when we need to separate colours. Each shape that has the same colour is separated from the image. This can’t effectively be done with a bitmap image when printing with spot colours.

One time when it is ok to use bitmap images is when you want a full colour print using process CMYK colours. Sometimes bitmap images are ok for single colour prints as long as they are at least 300dpi and already at print size.

How does pricing work?

Pricing for screen printing is based on 3 variables.

The number of colours in the print
The number of prints on the tee i.e. Front only or front and back etc
The number of garments to be printed

So to give you a solid price we need to know these three variables. We will always advise you on how you can reduce your costs by adjusting these variables.