Screenprinting Services

Our screenprinting department will imprint your logo or design onto the clothing and accessories that you select from our online catalogs.

Screenprinting, or silk-screen, or serigraph, is the art of printing on fabric through a fine screen of nylon (formerly silk). Areas of the screen are masked off and ink is forced through the screen with a squeegee, resulting in an inked shape on the garment.

Screenprinting uses one color at a time. Each color needs to dry before the next color is applied. When cured with heat, the screenprinting ink is both permanent and washable.

In the design shown, two colors were used on a royal blue garment. First, the white was laid down. The orange color in the artwork fades from dark to light, so white was laid down wherever the design called for orange. Once the white was dry, orange ink was applied.

It’s not possible to print two colors at once by screenprint, so instead of actually mixing lighter and darker orange inks, we use one color and break it up into tiny dots to simulate mixed colors. The dots get smaller and farther apart as the color gets lighter, and gives us the smooth shaded appearance.

Our price for a screenprinted item depends on several factors.

Quantity and number of colors. The setup time required for 12 shirts is the same as the time required for 1200 shirts, so quantity discounts apply. We would almost never recommend screenprinting only 12 items; there are other options for low quantity garment graphics. There is a charge per item for each color, so the number of colors definitely affects the price.

Type of garment the artwork will go on. Different fabrics need different treatments. A very porous or dark-colored garment might need a white underlay for a brightly-colored design.

Since there are multiple factors involved in pricing, it is necessary to consider and quote each job individually.