Please take note:  The below print formats and colors may not reflect all our current colors and formats we offer in our designer shops for customer product creations.  Please view all updated and current formats and colors in our actual designer shops when creating.  We are always adding new and inventive formats, styles and colors to our designers for our customers to use.

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Print Formats & Colors In Specialty Shops For Personalization Of Products Or Designing products in our designer shops.

NOTE: (9-19-09)color's , font styles , have recently been updated with lots of new product colors , font styles and color variation types as well.  WOW they are cool new one's to. Visit our designer shops to view all of them.

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Plot Printing provides superior printing results that are long-lasting and colors want fade.

Flex Printing is flat and has a touch of shine to it like vinyl is confortable to wear. 

 Flock printing feels soft and is slighty raised comfortable to wear.

Digital Printing This printing offers excellent printing results with multicolored designs with all kinds of color variations. The digital print is flat and smooth and comfortable to the touch. This printing method offers a great deal of flexability.

Here are the following colors available in each of this printing formats we have available in Creations by Reta Specialty Shops.  However, this list is not completely showing all we carry and have availible and to check those out visit one of our designer shops and click on the availible styles , colors, print formats when creating a product of your own.

Flex Printing Colors Available

black, white, gold (non metallic), yellow, neon yellow, pink, orange, red, purple, neon pink, chocolate, navy, royal blue, light blue, neon green, green, forrest green, metallic silver, silver grey, metallic gold, teal, marroon, cream.

Flock Printing Colors Available

black, white, yellow, gold, orange, red, magenta, navy purple, royal blue, bright green, green , light pink, chocolate, silver grey sand.

Specialty Flex Print Colors Available

silver reflection, glow in the dark, lavender glitter, cranberry glitter, gold glitter, blue glitter, sliver glitter, silver sparkle, gold sparkle, green sparkle, red sparkle, blue sparkle, purple sparkle, champagne, pink sparkle, black sparkle, cameo.

How is your t-shirt printed using digital printing?

There are two methods used to print a digital design on a t-shirt: digital transfer and digital transfer overlay . The specific print technique used is determined by the color of the t-shirt that's selected.

If you select a white t-shirt, the print technique that's used is called digital transfer . If you select a t-shirt that's any color other than white, the print technique that's used is called digital transfer overlay .

Digital Transfer:

With the help of a color laser printer, the design is applied to a special type of transfer material. The transfer material is pressed onto the t-shirt under high temperature. There is no white color used in this print technique. The color of the t-shirt will show through anywhere the design contains white or transparent areas.

Digital Transfer Overlay:

This process uses a special type of material that the design is printed on before being heat transferred onto the t-shirt. For this print technique, our system doesn't recognize transparencies . Therefore, any area of your design that you've set to be transparent will be changed to white . We can remove the white background only if your design meets the following requirements:

  • The design must be a shape that can be cut around. For example, it has to be a shape that someone could cut out with scissors. If your design contained an image of a star, the edges of the star would have to be smooth and have a distinct edge. They cannot be little dots or a gradation because this would be impossible to be cut on our plotters.
  • The smallest part must be at least .12 inches in size. If there are a lot of small parts and complex areas in your design, we won't be able to cut around your design.

 

How is your t-shirt printed using plot printing (Flex / Flock)?

A vector design with no more than 3 colors is a necessary printing format for the plot print. Vector designs consist of curves. A design will be mechanically cut out of the plot material with the plotting knife. Very fine design parts considerably increase the amount of effort. Every printing color is cut out of its own plot material.

After the design has been extracted from the material and the excess material has been removed, only the design will remain.

Finally, the design will be positioned and thermally transferred onto the t-shirt. The plastic backing will be removed and the t-shirt is complete.