Screen Printing Explained

Hello Valued Member,

In this video we’ll discuss screen printing, a high quality apparel decoration process employed by the Branded Apparel Club to achieve your desired look.

Screen printing, in its most simplified definition, is the process of transferring a graphic design onto a fabric, or in your case, a garment of choice using a stenciled silk screen, ink and a squeegee.

Standard pricing for screen printing is determined by several factors;
Garment Style, Garment Quantity, total number of ink colors within a design

Our DIY design tool software will automatically consider these pricing factors once a jpeg or png image file of your design is uploaded and placed on your selected garment during the design phase of your ordering process.

Please insure the image uploaded is in the exact condition of your desired look to avoid potential artwork fees. Artwork fees are charged to orders with designs that require editing to ensure your image is print ready. More on this later in the video….

Generally for screen printing, each color in a design requires its own individual screen with respect to restrictions on full color designs or designs with gradient, gloss and shiny effects versus stacked or flat designs as shown in the illustration.
To keep production costs to a minimum for our members we have limited our screen printing process to 1 color designs to avoid excessive screen creation fees for full color designs.

All full or multi color designs or designs with special effects will require our high quality Direct To Garment print process, also known as DTG or digital printing. This is the most cost effective means to achieve your desired look for complex designs without compromising quality.

We’ll touch more on Direct To Garment Printing in the next video.

Price breaks for screen printing begin for orders larger than 24 items.

Minimum Order Requirements for screen printing orders are 12 items per garment color with no restrictions on sizing.

For example; if you desired to print your design on a black t-shirt and a white t-shirt, you’d order 12 black t-shirts & 12 white t-shirts in the available sizes for each garment color to meet the minimum order requirement. Rest assured our minimum order requirements are the lowest in the industry for print companies of comparable size.

T-Shirts, Hoodies, Tanks, Sweatshirts, Sweatpants, joggers and shorts for men, women and youth are all available garments to choose from inside the Branded Apparel Club shop.

Front, Back, Sleeve & Leg print locations are also available for screen printing as illustrated in the examples shown.

Branded Apparel Club incorporates premium ink, pre-production techniques & top of the line industry standard equipment into its overall production process to ensure your order is produced to the highest quality. These factors along with a quality garment selection
will increase the durability of your screen print over the course of time.

A $50 artwork fee per design may be applied to your order if edits are necessary to ensure your uploaded image is print ready. This includes but is not limited to color, text, shape and background edits. Artwork fees can be avoided by ensuring your image is uploaded exactly as your desired look.

Proofs of any edits made to your image will be found in the order management section of your account. A proof approval is required before production can begin. Please respond to this approval request as soon as possible to avoid production delays.

It is always good practice to maintain a copy of your design source file should edits need to be made to your original design file to achieve your desired look.

Source files are typically created in Adobe Photoshop, also known as a PSD file or in Adobe Illustrator commonly referred to as an AI file.

SVG or EPS vector files are also acceptable file formats that allow for editing if necessary.

If a source or vector file of your design is not available, a transparent high resolution untagged jpeg or png image file of your design will suffice but presents editing limitations.

Having access to these files eliminates production delays and allows for flexibility in the event edits are necessary to achieve your desired look without compromising quality.

Examples of 1 color prints have been provided to illustrate our screen print capabilities…