01/02/2010 by admin.

A more up market look is generated by the polo shirt. This can be warn by men or women and come in many shapes and sizes. the major types of polo shirt are cotton, mixed cotton and man made fiber, short sleeve and long sleeved.

Schools use polo shirts for school uniform, because the can take the rough treatment they will get from the kids and are not to expensive to replace. Plus the tend to look smarter because they have a collar.

The other positive attribute of the polo is that you can embroider it. T-shirts tend to be too thin and can chafe. With the polo’s longer life expectancy the permanence of embroidery is worth the extra cost.

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29/01/2010 by admin.

A massive part of the process of t shirt printing is the actual t-shirt. There are many different t-shirts to choose from, for many different requirements.

As far as printing is concerned the major concern is the type of material that is used to manufacture the t-shirt. Most t-shirts are made from 100% cotton, others are made from all sorts of man make fibers.

Some processes like DTG can not print onto man made fibers such as polyester because it would not absorb the dye. Most DTG printers will cope with a 60% cotton to 40% man made fibre mixture but I would not recommend going as low as 50% -50% cotton to polyester mixes. It will look ok when you first get the t-shirt but will soon start to fade and washout.

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