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Garment screen printers must employ a wide variety of techniques to satisfy the needs of their customers. Here is a summary of the separation and printing techniques used to handle the variety of production requirements.

Heat transfer machines have played an instrumental role in the garment embellishment industry since the early 1960s. Many may ask why they would want to screen print an image onto paper and then transfer the image to a garment. Flexibility, that's why.

The causes of dye migration in cotton/polyester fabric are well known. The practical prevention of migration is often misunderstood by screen printers. Proper ink and printing practices can overcome difficulties in decorating fabrics susceptible to dye migration.

Linearization of the halftone process is a basic building block of color reproduction. It is a way of saying the production process follows a linear, predictable flow from start to finish. The process involves identifying variance at each step, and correcting for the variance.