Printing things other than T-shirts: Baseball Caps
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:00 am
I can't remember if Catspit put out a video of printing onto textiles other than T-shirts, or even printing on non textiles.
I have seen several shops around the UK where you choose a design and it is heat pressed onto a shirt, hoodie or baseball (trucker?) cap in front of you.
Basically the transfer seems to have been screen printed rather than it being a dye sub transfer.
I can see the benefit of having loads of transfers to print onto IF you owned a shop as it cuts down on printed inventory requiring a stock of unprinted clothing and transfers only. I imagine this also means that with a transfer, other non textile items could also be printed.
This leads onto my question, which is about screen printing hats.
I can visualise that using the transfer method you could screen print a hat design onto paper, then cut the paper down to fit the printable area on the hat.
But how is a Baseball/trucker/peaked cap directly?
Is it some special screen with thin walls where the peak meets the print area . How is it done. Any chance of a video on it sometime please Jonathan?
I have seen several shops around the UK where you choose a design and it is heat pressed onto a shirt, hoodie or baseball (trucker?) cap in front of you.
Basically the transfer seems to have been screen printed rather than it being a dye sub transfer.
I can see the benefit of having loads of transfers to print onto IF you owned a shop as it cuts down on printed inventory requiring a stock of unprinted clothing and transfers only. I imagine this also means that with a transfer, other non textile items could also be printed.
This leads onto my question, which is about screen printing hats.
I can visualise that using the transfer method you could screen print a hat design onto paper, then cut the paper down to fit the printable area on the hat.
But how is a Baseball/trucker/peaked cap directly?
Is it some special screen with thin walls where the peak meets the print area . How is it done. Any chance of a video on it sometime please Jonathan?