Printing a t-shirt with maximum fidelity to the created art is the great challenge of the specialized companies. After all each year, new t-shirt customization technologies are launched in different countries around the world.

There is no personalization technology today that can fulfil every possible demand.

Two techniques that stand out from every company’s portfolio are Silk Screen and Silk Digital. But what is the difference between them anyway?

Silk Screen

The Silk Screen is a classic customization technique, though the process has gained many innovations. As is well known, this process is based on the revelation of screens as matrices of an image. Each colour pattern will necessarily need a matrix screen.

In this logic, the process becomes very competitive in price for medium or large quantity productions. This is because the more parts are produced, the more diluted the screen development costs become.

Silk Digital

Silk digital t shirt maker is very suitable for tracing colour prints. In less technical language, stroke colours are those arts in which we can count the number of colours.

Example: The Coca-Cola logo has only one colour. Google’s, four colours. When we make t-shirts for these brands, we use a canvas for each of the colours.

Already the logo of some companies has an uncountable number of colours. We call this art group chromium.

A big challenge for Silk Screenprints is the chromium prints, which means many colours combined.

You can make chromium prints in Silk Screen, especially in Automated Silk. For this, the art needs to be specially prepared and divided into CMYK colours. Matching CMYK colours will form the colour variations of the chromium for a multi-coloured result.

Advantages of Silk Screen and Automated Silk

• Best value for medium and large orders
• Long print durability
• Sustainable process

Disadvantages

• Needs screen development
• No competitive price for a few parts
• Requires minimum order