Can you screen print on the hood of a hoodie?
Screen printing on the hood of a hoodie is possible but there are certain limitations in doing so. It is something we are glad to do and can add that dynamic look that you're going for when designing custom printed hoodies. It is considered an additional location and the pricing will reflect that depending on the amount colors printed on that location.
The size of the print has to be relatively small when printing on the hood of a hoodie because of the shape of the hood. Remember that we have to take the fabric and put it on a flat surface to be able to print on it. Since the hood is already sewn on to the hoodie and not flat, we are only able to print on each side without the print going from one side to the other. This gives us about a 5" x 5" square within to work from.
We are also limited to the amount of colors since the working print area is so small. It would be hard to get the registration tight with multiple print colors because the hood would have to be held in the exact same spot for multiple screens. For this reason we are only able to print a single color on each side of a hood.
It is important to know that we cannot print a continuous design from one side of the hood to the other. We don't like that limitation just as much as you but there's nothing we can do to change that. We wish we could but it just isn't possible. In the cases in retail stores where you have seen that done before, it is because the fabric was printed flat before it was sewn onto the hoodie.
Printing names and/or numbers onto the hood of a hoodie costs considerably more because of the additional location and the personalization of each hoodie. We recommend adding a design to the hood as opposed to adding personalized names or numbers.
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