Large Format Printing Ballwin, MO
You are excited about this awesome screen print design idea you came up with, but the size of the design is so large that you’re having trouble finding a place to print it. Many print shops are unable to fulfill or order or trying to convince you to shrink it down to something more reasonable. The solution is large format printing serving the Ballwin, MO area, which is a service only select print shops are equipped to provide. Large format printing is a print solution that can catch the eyes of viewers, convey messages that can be understood from afar, and present information with ease.
For your Ballwin, MO large format printing needs, you need a your favorite shop screen print shop that you can trust to take the painstaking care and utter excellence they apply to every job: Shirt.Co For more than 40 years, Ballwin, MO families and businesses have counted on us to deliver on all screen printing and embroidery requests large and small.
Shirt.Co serves the Ballwin, MO area, but is physically located in St. Louis, MO. We offer rush shipping to anywhere in the continental U.S. in just a few days! Contact us now for more details and tell us about your project!
Are you ready to start your large format printing order? Contact us online, call us at (636) 926-2777, or send us a text at (636) 299-0162. Shirt.Co has your back when it comes to Ballwin, MO large format printing.
Large Format Print Shop
Large format printing is a specialty printing service that involves printing designs and printing on surfaces that are larger than a typically screen printing press is capable of printing (which is typically capped at around 14 inches). To offer large format printing options to their customers, a shop must comply with certain space requirements and invest in special machinery and equipment, typically only available by custom order from manufacturers. STL Shirt. Co is proud to bring premium-level large format printing to the Ballwin, MO area.
Uses for Large Format Printing
Large format printing can be used for anything from a really big design printed on a t shirt, printing on large clothing items, and a whole slue of promotional and industrial materials. Large format printing is commonly used in printing:
- Whole-shirt designs
- Window and wall displays and posters
- Store displays
- Banners
- Trade show displays
- Indoor/outdoor signage for business promotion
- Vehicle wraps
- Backdrops
- Signs and calendars
- Murals
For large format printing specifically on t-shirts, there are lots of cool things we can do. We see a lot of excellent large format printing jobs for t-shirts and other clothing items for uses like:
- Clothing Brands and Brand Merch: A large logo or other artwork covering a wearer’s front side instantly grabs attention, fosters brand recognition, and sends a bold message. Large prints can be artfully used in branding and wearable marketing.
- Music Industry: Enter the band tee. A large, bold, high-contrast print works perfectly to visually express the message a band or DJ wants to send. Extend your art to the t-shirts that help bring in extra revenue and give your fans a way to support you by designing exciting, daring large format printed shirts and other merchandise.
- Special Events: Special events are always an excellent opportunity for the use of screen printed shirts of any kind. For any kind of event, large or small, there are many groups and individuals involved in the organization and participation. Shirts for events like races, festivals, competitions, fundraisers celebrate the occurance and honor everyone who made the event possible. Do both well with large format printing for your event t-shirts in Ballwin, MO. Large format makes it possible for you to cleanly display all sponsor logos without cramming them together in tiny columns.
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How Large Format Printing is Possible
Large format printing calls for special care and craftsmanship. In order to provide true large format printing options with quality results, a screen printing shop must have the right equipment. The first three things a screen printer needs to produce large format printing work are:
1. The Press
Screen printing wouldn't be possible without the printing press. Regardless of whether a printer uses a manual or automatic press, the resulting print is limited by the length of the squeegee, and the machine needs to be built to accommodate for that a larger squeegee. The smooth, crisp colors on a screen printed item are the work of the machine, and large format printing means - you guessed it - a machine with larger-than-average parts to allow for a larger print area.
2. The Film
If you're not familiar with how screen printing works, here's a micro-lesson of the set-up process; your design is "stenciled" onto a fine mesh screen within a frame, holding the mesh taut. How does one get that image or pattern stenciled onto the screen, you ask? The image is printed on a sheet of film, and a photosensitive chemical called emulsion is applied to the screen. The image on the film blocks light in certain areas and allows light to shine through in others; this allows the emulsion to harden in the shape of the design. The hardened parts are where the ink will not pass through. The positive space where the mesh is still exposed shows your image and is where the ink will pass through the screen and then adhere to the shirt or other printing surface.
Simple, right?! Don't worry if you didn't quite catch all that (your shirts will still come out looking just as great)! Because film is required to make the stencil for your design, your design is limited by the size of the film. The film in generally available in standard sizes, but for larger designs, we have film with a larger surface area.
3. The Screens
The screen is the next piece to producing your design. If there was no screen, screen printing would just produce a messy, undefined blob. Maybe you're going for an abstract look, but usually it's not what you want.
The size of your stencil and, in turn, your design, is limited by the screen as well as the film. The biggest sheet of film in the world won't matter if they don't fit withn the screen's frame. Likewise, a huge frame can still only print your design as large as the print on the film. We also have to consider the type of mesh we use. For larger print sizes, we opt for a particular mesh that allows for clean lines and detail that looks great for the particular size of the print.
The paintbrush in the hands of a novice, though, does not produce the same results as it does in Van Gough's hand. This also translates to large format printing; the right tools won't produce good screen printing work without the right operator. Quality Ballwin, MO large format printing, as with any type of screen printing, requires the touch of a skilled craftsman. Don't turn to just any print shop when you need large format printing for your needs in Ballwin, MO. Some print shops carry the film, screens, and presses capable of large format printing, but they may not necessarily have experience specifically in large format printing. To produce good large format printing work, we also invest in an exact, tested combination of materials and specialized training to make sure that what we print looks good, lasts, and isn't too heavy or thick.
Large Format Printing Ballwin, MO | STL Shirt. Co
Don't let other screen print shops fool you or try to get you thinking small. You can count on Shirt.Co for all your large format printing needs in Ballwin, MO. Whether you need a large printed sign for an event or love the look of a big, full print on a shirt, Shirt.Co can walk you through every step of the process, from the initial design to the final product. We guarantee quality, long-lasting results from all our work.
Get in touch with us to begin your large format printing now, and discover what can happen when there are truly no limits! To learn more about Shirt.Co's large format printing serving the Ballwin, MO area or any of our other services, get in touch with us today. Call us at (636) 926-2777, send us a text at (636) 299-0162, or jump right in by requesting a quote.
