Here at Bender we have chosen five t-shirts that are most recommended for custom screenprinting. For your custom t-shirt you can feel confident in choosing a garment made by Anvil, Hanes, Jerzees or Chouinard.
The Anvil 979 is a 6.1 oz 100% pre-shrunk cotton heavyweight tee. It is strong & stylish and available in an array of colors. We also offer an organic tee. The Anvil 490 Fashion Fit featuring the AnvilOrganic Racer Tear-Away label is a 4.5 oz 100% certified organic combed ring-spun cotton tee. Both of these Anvil tees are available in a ladies & youth companions.
The Hanes 5250 is another quality heavyweight tee. This style is 6.1 oz 100% ComfortSoft cotton and is Tagless for ultimate neck comfort. A youth companion is also available.
Next is the Jerzees 29M. A lighter weight fabric at 5.6 oz and made of 50% cotton/50% polyester. The 29M is a good quality tee at a less expensive price.
The Chouinard 1717 is an excellent choice of heavyweight pigment dyed tees. The pigment-dyeing and ring-spun cotton results in amazing colors and softness. Ladies & youth companion available.

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Well we are finally ready to custom screenprint t-shirts. With the hard work behind us we now are ready to set up the screens on the press. This is done in different ways depending on what type of screenprinting press is used. At www.bendershirts.com we used primarily automatic presses. This means that the printing is done by the machine rather than by hand. There are some advantages to using automatic press which we will tackle in another blog.

On the automatic press we place in screens in a sequence that best fits the design. Then we align the screens with the registration marks that were printed on each film. Once we have the marks aligned we place the ink in the screen. Now that the screens are filled with in we put in clean squeegees and run a test print to make sure pressures and alignment are correct. If there are any problems they are fix and another test print is run.

We now have a sample for our quality control representative to approve. At this point we can begin the printing. On our press we average about 300 shirts per hour. We now have a finish order that is ready to ship.

This is a general idea of the printing process. You can now see that custom screen printed t shirts is a pretty complex process that is very time consuming. At bendershirts.com we do our best to make sure your order is handled with care and every shirt goes out with top quality.

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