Can you print a painting onto a t-shirt?
9 times out of 10 we are not able to print a painting onto a t-shirt. The main reason for this is because most paintings are much like a photograph and they present the same problems photographs do when printing on t-shirts. Most inks in paintings are mixed together to create a colorful piece of art that is full of color gradient changes in shadings. These color gradient changes are very hard to print because they contain so many colors and screen printing is optimal with solid spot colors.
There have been many cases where we have converted the image of a painting into solid spot colors for screen printing. This is something we are very good at and comes in handy when you're trying to get across the concept of a painting more than the exact content.
About the only way to accomplish screen printing of an original painting is with four color process printing. This can require very expensive setups and a larger than normal minimum of t-shirts per order. Even with the best of four color process print, the end result is typically 60-70% of the quality of the original artwork. Because the results typically produce less than 100% quality, we rarely do four color process printing unless the design completely lends itself to doing so. The situation has to be just right.
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