Large Format Printing Cape Girardeau, MO
You have a great idea for a printed t-shirt design or sign for a business or event. The problem, though, is size. Print shops are unable to fulfill or order or trying to talk you down to something smaller because your design is too large. What you need is large format printing serving the Cape Girardeau, MO area, which is a service few print shops can provide. Large format printing is a print solution that can catch the eyes of viewers, express messages from a distance, and present information with ease.
For your Cape Girardeau, 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, Cape Girardeau, MO families and businesses have counted on us to deliver on all screen printing and embroidery requests large and small.
Shirt.Co serves the Cape Girardeau, 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 Cape Girardeau, MO large format printing.
Large Format Print Shop
Large format printing describes the specialty printing service that involves printing designs and printing on surfaces that are larger than standard screen printing is capable of printing (which is typically capped at around 14 inches). To offer large format printing options to their customers, a shop has to take certain measures and invest in special machinery and equipment, which must be custom ordered from manufacturers. STL Shirt. Co is proud to bring premium-level large format printing to the Cape Girardeau, MO area.
Uses for Large Format Printing
Large format printing is fitting for a variety of uses from a really big design printed on a t shirt, printing on large clothing items, and a whole slue of promotional and industrial materials. Some common uses of large format printing are:
- 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, possibilities are endless and amazing. Some types of jobs we think are perfect for large format printing use are:
- Clothing Brands and Brand Merch: A print that covers one side of a garment, such as a logo or other interesting artwork, instantly grabs attention, fosters brand awareness, and makes 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 you generate additional revenue and allow 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 any kind of screen printed t-shirts. For any kind of event, large or small, there are many groups and individuals involved in the organization and participation. For runs, festivals, fundraising events, competitions, and more, you want to commemorate the date and honor everyone who made the event possible. Accomplish both with large format printing for your event t-shirts in Cape Girardeau, MO. Large format makes it possible for you to fit 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. To be a true, quality provider of large format printing, a screen printing shop must have the right equipment. The major three things a screen printer needs to produce large format printing work are:
1. The Press
To screen print anything at all, you need a proper 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 designs on a screen printed item are the work of the machine. For large format printing, we need - 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 that is in a framethat holds the mesh taut. But how does the image, pattern, or design get stenciled on the screen? First, the original design is printed on film, and the screen is coated with a photosensitive chemical called emulsion. The light hardens the emulsion to the screen in the areas of the image where the film is transparent and allows light through. The hardened parts block the ink from moving through and attaching to the shirt. Where you can still see the mesh is where your image lives 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)! Since we need film to put your design on the screen, the print can only be as large as the size of the film sheet. The film comes in standard sheet 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 result in a messy, undefined blob. Maybe you're going for an abstract look, but in most cases, this is not what you want.
The size of your stencil (which determines the size of your print) is limited by how large the screen is as well as the film. Large film sheets do no good if the frames being used are too small to fit the entire image. Likewise, your frame could be big enough to cover a huge area, but without film in the correct size, the image would end or would simply print smaller than you would liked. We also have to consider the type of mesh we use. For larger print sizes, we opt for a different type of mesh that creates clean lines and detail that looks great for the particular size of the print.
However, the most beautifully crafted violin will not produce the most beautiful sound ever heard if it's in the hands of a toddler. What we mean by that is that these large format printing tools and equipment won't do any good on their own. Quality Cape Girardeau, MO large format printing, along with all other types of screen printing, requires the touch of a skilled craftsman. When you need large format printing in the Cape Girardeau, MO area, all print shops are not created equal. Some print shops carry the film, screens, and presses capable of large format printing, but don't have the personnel with the skill and experience to for quality 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 Cape Girardeau, MO | STL Shirt. Co
Don't let other screen print shops limit you by trying to keep your ideas small. Trust Shirt.Co for all your large format printing needs in Cape Girardeau, MO. Whether you need a big banner 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 Cape Girardeau, 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.
