There are plenty of varieties suitable for textile screen printing, but only a few that make much sense when it comes to carrying capacity and cost. The option most popular modern cotton shirts, but his election does not end in choosing the natural cotton plant on synthetic polyester or poly-cotton blend for his jersey. In semi-combed cotton or cotton ring-spun cotton, wash their enzymes are some of the distinctions that make the difference between a screen printed favorite shirt, and a screen printed shirt.

Combed cotton

Combed Cotton is a great option for t-shirt screen printing. Smooth and strong, has all the ingredients of a favorite T-shirt!

Combed cotton fibers are completely carded and then combed to be in the same address. The combing process removes dirt, impurities and shorter fibers resulting in less foreign fibers protruding from the thread. This means that a T-shirt be combed cotton is softer against the skin and less likely to battle and tear. This is a great shirt for printing on smooth fibers as easily accept the screen printing ink. However, the additional processing that will turn the results of combed cotton yarn in a more expensive fabric.

In terms care, a shirt from this material can be washed and dried normally, but dyed combed cotton may bleed over high heat.

Semi-hairstyles cotton

Combed cotton T-shirts made of semi-have many of the qualities of their mother superior, combed cotton, often at lower cost. However, not as soft or as hard as going through a really short haircut, leaving the fibers shorter strings to a feeling rougher and less durability.

Cotton Loom

These days, most of combed cotton t-shirt in high quality clothing materials are usually done with a ring spinning process. The result is a smooth, soft fabric, highly wearable and versatile in the comfort and elegance. "Loom" refers to the process by which the carding and combed cotton yarn is converted into electric spinning machines.

Cotton is divided into a number of "twisted" and then changed or rotate around each other. The number of yarn in skeins of yarn called "layered" with two skeins of being 2-layer, three skeins of being 4-layers, etc. Alternatives sound common to include open-end cotton yarn spun fibers, often found in items such as plush towels and bathrobes, and less frequently on the shirts. The texture open-end spun fiber is not suitable for screen printing or quality t-shirt. Other varieties include air-jet spinning, compact ring spinning, friction spinning, and Siro spinning fibers.

For your t-shirt printing needs of the screen, we recommend sticking with combed cotton ring spinning!

Enzyme washing

Enzymes have a number of applications when it comes to textiles, including cleaning, finishing and texture effects. The shirts are enzyme washed that seem perfectly right to use the platform. A washing the enzyme is used to loosen the stain on the fabric and create a faded look and feel more smooth, without compromising strength. The great thing about enzymes is that since they are produced by living organisms, which are an ecological and economical alternative to traditional textile treatments.

The enzymes are applied to the garment, usually after the shirt is manufactured, but before the screen is printed, and effectively is broken into small dye molecules then washed out. This means that instead of adding another chemical in the material, it pulls the ink out result a smoother, less than factory strange smell, and a higher binding power of ink for screen printing.

Joel Taylor is the owner and operator of PSI Screen printing, a successful Australian web based Screen Printing company specializing in T-shirt Printing – http://www.psionline.com.au

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