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How are most designer T-Shirts Made?

I bought a screen print machine recently and have been messing around making shirts, but i don't see how people completely cover shirts in art unless not with a screen print. Another thing i don't fully understand is the multi color screen printers that i call a spider machine. how do they line up perfect when you rotate the machine?

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1. The multi color Screen Printing Presses use various methods to keep in registration (lined up). Our Automatic Press uses "Capture Forks" on several of the print heads, which guide the bearings mounted on the platen arms (platen being the name for the board you load the shirt on). The Capture forks and the Bearings need to be carefully aligned when the Press is set up, and periodically afterwards they need to be realigned and/or replaced. Also all of the platens have to be periodically leveled, as well as the print heads. For more on the Modern Screen Printing Process, see this article: http://shirtartinc.blogspot.com/2010/01/custom-screen-printing-101-how-it-works.html Also, to address the first part of your question, I believe you are referring to "All-Over Printing." Sometimes this is done to the blank material before the Shirts are cut out and stitched together. At other times there are special presses with special platens set up to do this.