Ok - Ive done a lot of 'quality' T-Shirt prints over the years - these will be expensive to produce. T-Shirt prints (unless you go down the tacky digital transfer method) use solid colour inks . . . and you have lots of colours on the reverse (6 - cause you cant really use tints - since a tint on a screen print is not solid but a pattern of quite large dots) - so thats six seperate screens to be made up and six passes on the carousel. This is usually only viable on large print runs - what size of print run are u thinking about?
By using white you limit yourselves to dark colour shirts - but printing white onto say a black shirt can result in a 'dirty' looking print - a quality printer would put down a 'flash' white first and then overprint the 'flash' white with white to give a vibrant white. So using white (apart from limiting yourselves to dark shirts) can add an 'extra' colour. At that point I'd suggest to the client going digital - but as thats a 'transfer method' you cant use white!! aaaarg - and your limited to light colour shirts . . . mazza will be sooking the chocolate stains off them for years to come
If you want the white limit yourselves to white (with a 'flash' - or a thick 'bubble' ink - you know the kind you can feel is raised when you run your hands over it - has an almost rubbery feel - and blue - that'll help keep costs down.
If you want email ur artwork (any format) to me at
mrspliffy@hotmail.com and I'll come up with some alternatives that might be cost effective.
PS If your sourcing small runs BAR1 in Glasgow are pretty good at quality short runs. Hope this helps
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