The Science Behind the Shirts
If you’ve been following the emergence and mainstreaming of customized tees you’ve probably just having a killer design does not make shirts equal. The process of getting the image onto a shirt is almost as varied as the type of designs themselves.
Pop Culture Tees has a great overview of the different ways of creating the apparel we know and love. They cover heat transfer, digital printing, screen printing, and vinyl. It’s not comprehensive - for example, reading through the Spreadshirt FAQ one sees that digital printing can be further broken down into Flex, Flock, Specialty Flex, Writable Flex categories. However, Pop Culture does give some good pointers when evaluating various offerings.
