All Over T Shirt Sublimation Printing

[Traw]

Hi guys,

Wondered if you could help!

Looking for a place preferably in Uk where we can get kids t shirts printed using sublimation printing but with the design all over the garment.

Any ideas would be most helpful!

Cheers!

Tom

[pisquee]

For proper all-over printing, the fabric is printed first, then it is cut and sewn into the garment.
RA Smart are a popular company to use for large format textile printing. You would then be best finding a local person who can do the cut and sew work for you.

[socialgiraffe]

Pisquee is correct.

However as they are only childrens tees you MAY be able to get away with printing on an A3 sheet and sublimating that. It might just cover the whole garment depending on the size of the kids garments.

One thing to note, are you sure you want sublimation? The reason I ask is because somewhere in the back of my mind I have it that kids tees should be 100% cotton. Not sure if this is correct or not so worth a thought.

You could use the heat transfer method still on 100% cotton which maybe cheaper, but the garments will not last as long.

Bear in mind that both methods that I have suggested MAY still leave a small white line between the front and back print.

[Traw]

Thanks for your reply-

looking to do something like this


http://alohafromdeer.com/tops/lew.html

http://alohafromdeer.com/tops/thetaj.html

It seems they are using poly cotton blend- is this sub printing or are they printing to fabric then making the garments?

Let me know what you think!

Cheers guys!

[socialgiraffe]

Neither of those links worked for me.

[Traw]

Second on should? If not google alohafromdeer

Thanks,

T

[Traw]

http://mrgugumissgo.bigcartel.com/

These guys also do it- t shirts half way down page

[socialgiraffe]

The ones on Mr Gugu are printed in the manner that Pisquee describes.

[FairyD]

Some of the 'Aloha' ones look as if a giant press has just done the whole front as it's 'bled' through into the inside back of the jumper....under where you would have the size label!!! They're not finished the same way as the all over printing ones that I've seen before.

I've printed on children's t'shirts with A3, it creates a great impact....I am going to be creating a 'patterned' look over some of the t-shirts that will require a lot more work just be creating individual small transfers from one large sheet that I'll randomly place over the t-shirts etc....if it was just to create a pattern you could try that?!?!?! This was age 7-8 I think!?!?!

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[pisquee]

It seems they are using poly cotton blend- is this sub printing or are they printing to fabric then making the garments?

Printing fabric first before cut and sew can still be sublimation printing - it just uses much bigger printers and heat presses (or a sublimation printer which also has a built in heat process.)

With them using a poly-cotton blend, and with the washed out look of the printing, it would seem they would be using a dye-sublimation process, as otherwise there'd be no point using a polymer based textile.