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michaleideas ¡ 1 year ago
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Looking for top-tier engraving and embossing solutions? Embossing Rollers Ltd has you covered. As a leading engraving company, we specialize in a wide range of services to meet your every need. Whether you require metal embossing, pattern design, or repair & refurbishment of your embossing machine, we deliver excellence every time.
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g3creative-blog ¡ 8 days ago
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Print Design Trends in the UK: What's Hot in 2025
Discover 2025’s leading UK print design trends with Glasgow-based studio G3 Creative. Learn what’s influencing brochure, leaflet, and display panel design in Scotland.
As a specialist print design Glasgow studio, we’ve seen how UK trends evolve — and 2025 brings a powerful mix of bold typography, tactile finishes, and a growing demand for eco-conscious materials. Whether you're working in heritage, tourism, retail or events, staying ahead in design helps you capture attention and build trust.
🔹 1. Tactile Print is Back
Print you can touch is making a bold return — think soft-touch lamination, spot UV, embossing and foil accents. These elevate even a simple tourism leaflet into a premium experience.
🔹 2. Sustainable Print Materials Matter
In brochure design Scotland, many businesses now request recycled stocks and plant-based inks. We work with local printers to ensure quality and sustainability go hand-in-hand.
🔹 3. Maximal Type, Minimal Clutter
We’re seeing a rise in clean, focused layouts paired with expressive typography — perfect for display panels and roller banners where clarity is king.
🔹 4. Local Stories, Local Style
More brands are connecting through local culture and design — tartan textures, historic landmarks and Scottish landscapes feature strongly in tourism print design Scotland.
🔍 Case Study: Brochure Design for HB Rentals
"G3 Creative did a fantastic job with our pocket brochure design, data sheet folder and the exhibition display. I have worked with many design and ad agencies over the years and Brian, Marianne & Adrian's work ethic and ability to transform thoughts into great creative work is exceptional." — Craig Russell, Commercial Sales Director, HB Rental Limited
👉 See our tourism print design work.
Need help crafting your next leaflet or banner? Let’s bring your campaign to life with high-quality, results-driven print design.
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nwrollers ¡ 8 months ago
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North West Rollers now have the largest laser engraving facility in the UK Engravings range from security print cylinders with engraved text to large embossing rollers with bold designs.
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hcpackagingasia ¡ 3 years ago
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The color adjusted by Gift box packaging manufacturer often has errors with the standard color when it is used by the printing factory. This is a problem that is difficult to completely avoid. The only way is to reduce the color difference to an appropriate limit. What is the cause of this problem? How to control, how to improve the accuracy of Gift box packaging manufacturer's color matching?
1. Printing method
Gift box packaging manufacturer mostly uses small printing machines imported from the UK. The mesh of this machine is on a flat plate, and the printing is completed by moving the printing film with a round embossing roller. The machine of the printing factory It is a round pressing method, and the mesh is on the rotating circumferential roller. The number of lines and angles of these two meshes are quite different, which makes the same ink have a lot of difference between the two printing methods. Sometimes it is not only the problem of dark color and light color, but also Hue, lightness, etc. will bring about a big difference in the effect. Some small factories use a squeegee to match the sample, which is even worse. Using the proofing machine of the plate making factory to match the color, the effect will be much better than that of the imported small printing machine, but the price is similar. This kind of proofing machine can be made into the same version of the printing factory, and can design different levels and shades of printing according to needs. Pattern, which makes the printing method basically the same as that of the printing house, and an important factor affecting the hue - the printing plate, is also the same as that of the printing house.
2. Version depth
Different prints have different version depths. Gift box packaging manufacturer's understanding or estimation of the version depth used in the prints also affects the accuracy of color matching. Obviously, if Gift box packaging manufacturer uses a 45Îźm dark version to print the color, and the customer's version is much smaller than 45Îźm, the printed color will become lighter, and vice versa, it will become darker. Some people think that the ink is adjusted according to the standard ink control provided by the user, and the plate depth can be ignored. In fact, this is a theoretical view, but it is not the case in practice. In theory, two identical inks (such as dividing a cup of ink into two parts) have the same hue regardless of the dark and light (other conditions are the same). However, in actual color matching, it is impossible to mix the exact same ink, so there is often such a phenomenon; sometimes the color of the lighter version is closer (which can meet customer requirements), but if the dark version is printed, the color It is much worse, so it is very important to master the depth of the plate. The depth of the plate of the customer must be used to print the color matching.
3. Viscosity
The printing viscosity of Gift box packaging manufacturer's color matching should be as consistent as possible with the printing viscosity of the ink when printing the ink. The farther the two are, the greater the color difference will eventually be. Gift box packaging manufacturer uses 22s for color matching, while customers use 35s. At this time, the color must be much darker, and vice versa. Some Gift box packaging manufacturers don't pay much attention to this problem, regardless of the viscosity used by the printing factory, they will always compare the customer's standard samples (including ink samples and printed samples) with a uniform viscosity, which will cause a large color difference.
4. Printing materials
The materials used by Gift box packaging manufacturer for color matching are different from those of the printing factory (including other processes), which will also cause a large color difference. Some inks with a layer of white ink will be closer in color to the customer print, and some will be the opposite. Some ink customers do not change much after compounding, but some change very greatly, such as some transparent colors, so Gift box packaging manufacturer must know the customer's process when color matching. The most basic ones include: whether to print a white ink base, compound What material, whether it is varnished or not. Theoretically speaking, the closer the printing conditions of Gift box packaging manufacturer to the printing conditions when using the ink, the higher the accuracy of the ink. However, due to the limitation of conditions, there are still many differences between the two, such as: the printing speed, the environment for viewing colors, and the pressure of the printing roller are impossible to be unified. The accuracy of the color palette of Gift box packaging manufacturer.
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embossingroller2 ¡ 3 years ago
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Feed Your Mind: Roller Transports And Their Purposes
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There are such countless variations of roller transports and their purposes are explicit to their sort. A ton of ventures in the market today are utilizing these transports to hurry the most common way of making an item. Contingent upon the model of the transport, it can likewise be depended on to accelerate the appropriation of items starting with one focus then onto the next.
Also, presently, let us investigate the various kinds of transports. One sort is known as the gravity transport and is for the most part used to move things starting with one region then onto the next. It is very adaptable such that you can change the stature and you can increment or abatement the point to drop things up or down. So what makes them move? This is essentially run by a roller wheel or a skate wheel. What makes this incredible is that it tends to be utilized with different transports.
Gravity transports likewise have subtypes. The gravity roller transport is for the most part utilized while moving items, for example, containers, metal jars, paper boxes, or whatever has a level and smooth surface. The size relies upon the bundles to be moved, however most businesses have a norm of 10 feet with 12 inches width.
The skatewheel transports, then again, are more advantageous to use than the roller rendition. It is light, so it can without much of a stretch be moved starting with one region then onto the next. In the event that you considering works everything out such that light, it is on the grounds that it is made from aluminum. The skatewheel can normally be found in delivery organizations and assembling organizations that include bundling. See more EMBOSSING ROLLER MANUFACTURERS
With regards to enormous assembling organizations, the generally utilize a blend of transports. They need a great deal of kinds of transports for the various requirements of the organization. One of these is the collection transport. What makes this special is that it utilizes compressed air to move. It has sensor rollers that identify when the item ought to be moved to the following region. While it pauses, it stops the item and holds it set up until the following sign. This is extremely helpful in organizations that need to move items into numerous workstations. You may be asking why it needs to hang tight for a sign. The clarification is very straightforward - it abstains from over-burdening.
The collection transport likewise has a subtype, very much like different kinds of transports. It is known as the zero tension transports. It works in the very cycle aside from that it evades impact by leaving spaces between bundles. There is additionally another subtype that works in a contrary way - the base tension transport. It positions each bundle near one another.
There are heaps of other transport composes there being utilized by various organizations. Knowing what transport suits your business best is the way in to a more effective responsibility. It most certainly saves time and exertion since it moves items all alone. Roller transports and their purposes have never been these useful in making enterprises more productive and energy-saving.
For more data on Transports if it's not too much trouble, visit Gough and Co (Designing) Ltd who are one the Uks driving Transport Manufacturers.
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joaniebluetoes ¡ 8 years ago
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Poldark Filming Location - My photos and visit to Dyrham Park, South Gloucestershire, UK. December 2017.  
Dyrham is a short distance from Bristol directly on the main A4 route, handy to reach from the Bottleyard Studios where all studio sets for Poldark are filmed.  I also found there were a lot of parallels in the history of Dyrham Park and in the character of George Warleggan as described by Winston Graham in the Poldark Novels.
The interior court yard entrance at Dyrham [top left, first photograph] has been used several times in Poldark as an exterior to George's Town House in Truro.  Inside is the "Best" Staircase which George and Elizabeth are often seen walking down in series 3 of Poldark.  Lots of things at Dyrham are labelled as “Best”, which I am sure is something George would have always had in his mind - how much something cost and what its added value would have been to his status.  And sometimes actually referring to the cost of something which was considered rather vulgar and ungentleman like at the time.
I think the main front exterior has been used when showing external shots of George's country house, Cardew. [correction: pretty sure it was seen as an exterior distant shot of Sir Francis Bassett’s house Tehidy in Episode 3 Series 3 - they seem to pick and mix shots of different houses even in the same scene.  Closer inspection needed it seems]
Unlike many other National Trust properties, Dyrham was never an aristocrat’s house; it was first owned by the Royalist supporting Wynter family in the Tudor era it fell into disrepair after the Civil War. It then passed into the hands of the up and coming civil servant and money raiser for the government, William Blathwayt (1649-1717) when he married the only surviving daughter of the Wynter family, Mary.  He set about making extensive and lavish alterations to the house and garden.  The church of St Peter lies within the grounds of Dyrham, right next to the house itself.  His connections in government meant that he received many gifts of timber and expensive goods from the American colonies, which were transported to him free of charge.
He was considered to be the bank-roller to the king by creating many new and lucrative financial schemes.  Although a civil servant his personal income was the equivalent of £5 million per year. Like George he waited to marry, making a prestigious match to an older woman Mary Wynter, with him bringing his vast wealth to the marriage.  She bore him four children during their short marriage of 5 years and she died in childbirth.
Dyrham Estate today still manages over 200 head of deer.  Having a deer park attached to his estate was one of the things that George Warleggan thought he should have at Cardew... not because he liked deer hunting, but because it gave him status and in typical Warleggan style he also made sure it was the biggest in the district.
I didn't take any photos of the interior of Dyrham mainly because most of the rooms are kept in low light. One particular room caught my eye as it was lined with leather embossed wallpaper, which had been finished with a silver covering.... it is the second only surviving example of this kind of Tudor embellished wall-covering in England. But I'm pretty sure it was used as an inspiration for the heavily embossed wallpaper they created for the new set of Trenwith in series 3 [as shown in the second photo].  I’m always really amazed at the details of the new sets in Poldark especially in series 3.
Here are some links to more information ...I hope you find this interesting..... [https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyrham-park] [https://www.facebook.com/DyrhamPark/]
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dolinquent-blog ¡ 6 years ago
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Rainbow Surprise Doll by  Poopsie
Age: Unknown (Not suitable for children 3 and under)
Price(UK): £40 at a sales discount. (RRP: £50)
Bought From: Argos
This is Pixie Rose, she is a Poopsie Rainbow Surprise Doll. She stands at roughly 14 inches in height and about 4 inches in width (right to left). She comes with 20+ surprises, including a slime kit and a packet of make up powder.
Pros:
I like the different shades in her hair, going from a bright pink to a more subtle peach.
Most of the clothing is well made and looks nice.
When wearing her footwear, she is able to stand unassisted which is nice for play and displaying purposes.
The accessories are cute and nicely detailed.
The slime recipe worked and made a decent and stretchy slime.
I like that her accessories and clothing could be used to store the slime that you made.
I liked the detailing on her face, especially the eyes.
I like that the case is embossed with Poopsie characters and can be used to store the doll. And that the box is secure and can be carried like a suitcase for travel purposes.
Any Cons/Defects?: 
The hair, though beautiful, is badly cut and styled. Whoever designed the hair was clearly going for a layered affect but it looks terrible.
There is a lot of waste packaging with this product, a vast majority of which was made up of individually packaged items.
Some of the packaging, I really struggled to open and can’t imagine a young child trying to get into.
The tags used to keep her head in the molded base leaves parts behind in the actual head of the doll and sticks out. I tried to cut them as best as I could and as close to the scalp of the doll as possible without cutting some of the doll’s hair and even now there are still pieces of thin, sharp plastic sticking out.
While making it, some of the slime dried and irritated my skin as well as lightly staining it.
I try to go into products completely blind as to give as much of an unbiased opinion as possible and this was my first interaction with a Poopsie product. So, I was really confused when I was given four Rainbow surprise powders to make the slime but only two packets of rainbow magic. Going by the instructions I would have expected a 4:4 ratio but for some reason there wasn’t. There was a bunch of other powders but I didn’t find anywhere in my set of instructions about what I was suppose to do with them with exception to the make up and something called “Unicorn Magic” which was not part of the selection. If you’re going to give me instructions with your product, I expect each items use to be explained at some point. These are after all, instructions made with children in mind.
The cost of this product at RRP is £50 and personally  I didn’t see anything worth £50. £30 at the most but at £50 it feels more like your paying for the brand name more than you are the actual doll and slime kit.
This should not be a blind box. I don’t like the idea of blind boxes in children’s toys or anything aimed at children but especially for £50. That is ridiculous. It should be guaranteed that whatever toy a child wants is inside and should not be a coin flip.
The jacket for my doll was not very good at all. The left cuff wasn’t hemmed in properly. It was a struggle to get the arms down the arms of the jacket and the hands through the holes. And as you can see in the picture, the front of the jacket warped and no matter what I tried, it would not lay flat.
For me it was difficult to get the shoe compartments to open. I finally managed it but through a lot of force and a real worry that I may accidentally break the toy.
Things that personally bothered me:
I felt that the doll’s shirt was a bit too short and more of a boob-tube than a proper t-shirt.
Barbie feet. I just really don’t like when dolls are molded so that they are on their tip-toes. Also it kind of feels cheating when you say that your doll is a certain height and the doll in question is on their tip-toes.
For a ÂŁ50 doll I would have liked a bit more articulation and joints in the doll.
I don’t like the roller skates. It’s a cute idea but I’d rather the doll have platform boots like the other dolls I have seen.
You have different dolls with different hair colours and styles and this doll called Pixie Rose and you don’t give her a pixie cut. Not really a nitpick just more of a missed opportunity.
My overall opinion is sadly, not good. I really wanted to like this toy but it irritated me more that delighted me. For the price and the reasons I’ve listed above I personally wouldn’t recommend this toy to anyone and especially not avid collectors who may end up spending £250+ trying to get the specific doll that they want.
I would instead advice buying a doll our toy that your child wants and can see in the packaging and, if they also want slime, buying the slime separate rather then spending money of this toy.
Score: 6/10 
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eurofootballnews-blog ¡ 5 years ago
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The Amazing And Often Strange Coffee News Highlights Of 2014
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December: A Time For Giving... But Probably Not Cocaine.
December, time for giving and the warm feeling when we see others open their presents. These acts of generosity were put to the test in Berlin when a local coffee roaster opened up their latest shipment of coffee from Brazil, to find it contained 33 kilos of cocaine! We're unsure whether they had a hearty Christmas smile on their face, but we're presuming confusion and fear was a more likely response. They reported the "shipment" to the police and Santa.
November: Peak Coffee Prices
Coffee prices reached their peak in 2.5 years during November. The dry weather in Brazil that has affected much of their yearly crop played a significant role in the increase. Much of the speculation now is how this year's drought will affect the crop in 2015. Although there have been rains over recent months, the question still remains as to how this will impact the flowering of new plants over 2015.
Many are predicting that if the weather returns to a semblance of normality, then the crop should be roughly the same as 2014. If weather continues to become more extreme then production would fall below the levels of 2014.
October: Cup North
A little closer to home we saw the inaugural "Cup North", a coffee party for all coffee lovers in the north of England. Put together by the local coffee community it was a chance for the spotlight to shine on the culinary and coffee developments outside of London. Click here ข่าวบอลยูโร
While the focus was on coffee, the 2-day event also promoted beer, chocolates and some of the exciting "foodie" developments in and around Manchester. Let's hope it continues for 2015.
September: Coffee & Biofuels
There are many known alternative uses for leftover coffee ranging from an effective compost, to being used an odour remover for whiffy socks. One of the most exciting developments of 2014 was the new company Bio-Bean.
Set-up in January by Arthur Kay, the company takes the used coffee grounds from London coffee shops and turns the waste into an advanced bio-fuel. In September they received a €500,000 grant from the Dutch Lottery.
Although widely suspected as a bribe with which to increase their scores from the UK during EuroVision (OK I made that bit up), the money will help the environmentally green Bio-Bean expand their operations and build a plant large enough to handle the processing of the collected coffee grounds. One gold star for Bio-Bean. A great idea and good luck for 2015.
August: Coffee Theme Park Given To Green Light
If you've ever dreamed of visiting a theme park with a giant caffeinated mouse, then August may have been the month for you. Funding was granted to develop a 64 acre coffee theme park in the Gangwon Province in South Korea.
The area has seen lot of development ever since the announcement that the 2018 winter Olympics were going to be held in the area. Designed as an environmentally friendly family theme park, the location will also house a production, roasting and distribution facility. Presumably the latter won't be of interest to the kids. A distribution roller coaster with embossed livery on the side doesn't really appeal to children.
The project will however create over a thousand jobs for the local community and feature a resort and coffee museum.
July: Fresh vs. Instant
In July the Euromonitor International Study published their latest research highlighting the continuing growth of instant coffee in countries that historically were associated with tea drinkers, namely China, Turkey and India. Almost half the world prefers instant coffee to freshly ground coffee.
In the UK, although the coffee market maturing and we're seeing a greater understanding of fresh and gourmet coffee products, the instant coffee market continued the gain strength especially when being consumed at home. Quite surprisingly in the UK us Brits are responsible for over a third of all instant coffee sold in Western Europe.
While it's still often viewed as unacceptable to offer instant coffee in many social or business situations, when at home these malleable rules seem to go out of the window. Convenience in many situations wins over quality.
Part of the growth was attributed to the marketing of instant coffee, many of the words traditionally reserved for fresh coffee were finding their way onto packets, jars and bags in the supermarket. One product describes itself as the world first "whole bean instant"... we still have no idea what that means!
June: World Championships
June saw the winner of the 2014 World Barista Championships. The title eventually went to Hidenori Izaki of Maruyama Coffee Company, Japan. The judges awarding him the prize after evaluating all contestants on a selection of criteria including their cleanliness, creativity, technical skills and presentation.
Hidenori was the 15th winner of the competition, produced and held by the World Coffee Event (WCE). The annual championship was held in Rimini, Italy and was the culmination of many local and regional finals throughout the world.
Congratulations to all participants especially Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood from the UK who eventually came in 5th, yes we are showing geographical bias.
Final Standings
Champion: Hidenori Izaki, Japan
2nd: Kapo Chiu, Hong Kong
3rd: Christos Loukakis, Greece
4th: Craig Simon, Australia
5th: Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, United Kingdom
6th: William Hernandez, El Salvador
May: Coffee & Cows
It seems that used coffee grounds can be used for almost anything! Starbucks partnered with a Japanese manufacturer of contacts lenses in the hope of turning leftover coffee grounds into a viable and environmentally friendly livestock feed for the Tokyo dairy market.
The fermented grounds were removed from the stores at Starbucks and incorporated into the food for cattle. The process has been tried before but the results showed that the coffee acted as a diuretic among the cattle and the high salt content was a concern. Apparently the new process includes lactic acid fermentation that ensures the feed produced became a viable option. Again, we have no idea how this works, but it sounds very impressive.
April: UK Barista Championships
If you mentioned the World Championships during April most people (probably tea drinkers) would immediately think of the F1 Grand Prix in China, or the start of the Snooker World Championships with its whispering and dapper waistcoats. To the creative coffee folk of the UK, April could only mean one thing; the build up to the Barista World Championships had begun.
Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood who took home his second title ultimately won the regional UK Barista Championships, held during the London Coffee Festival. Congratulations to Maxwell. With the award firmly tucked under his arm he would travel to Italy to compete in the World Championships in June. Flying the flag for the UK... probably without a waistcoat.
Feb/March: The Football World Cup
Much of the speculation during February and March was around the football world cup and how the Brazilians passion for their national sport would affect the coffee industry.
With around a third of all coffee coming from Brazil, the concerns were that the games held in Rio De Janeiro would disrupt the production, delivery and overall infrastructure of the coffee industry. At the risk of sounding anti-climatic it all worked out OK, even if it didn't for the Brazilian football team.
January: Myth Busted
We've probably all heard the old wives tale that coffee causes dehydration. We're told that we should drink a glass of water for every cup of coffee we consume. Where this theory comes from we have no idea, but research released in January from the University of Bath concluded that this was actually a myth.
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aluminumhm-blog ¡ 6 years ago
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Pebble Embossed Aluminum Sheet
Pebble embossed aluminum sheet products are widely used in refrigerator, solar heat reflectors, decorative aluminum products, lamps, bags, disinfection box, air conditioning, ventilation ducts, indoor & outdoor decoration, machinery and equipment housing and other industries. Embossed finish can enhance the thickness and strength of aluminum sheet.
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Reprinted from https://www.aluminum-coil.net/pebble-embossed-aluminum-sheet.html
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magicempposts-blog ¡ 7 years ago
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All-over print T-shirts --2017/05/05
TrendsT-shirts were originally worn as undershirts, but are now worn frequently as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body, other than possibly a brassiereor, rarely, a waistcoat(vest). T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any imaginable combination of words, art and photographs on display. A T-shirt typically extends to the waist. Variants of the T-shirt, such as the V-neck, have been developed. Hip hop fashion calls for tall-T shirts which may extend down to the knees. Long T-shirts are also sometimes worn by women as nightgowns. A 1990s trend in women's clothing involved tight-fitting cropped T-shirt or crop tops short enough to reveal the midriff. Another less popular trend is wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt of a contrasting color over a long-sleeved T-shirt, which is known as layering. T-shirts that are tight to the body are called fitted, tailored or baby doll T-shirts.DecorationOne of the earliest examples of T-shirts with a logo or decoration can be found in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Three men attending to the Scarecrow at the Wash & Brushup Company in Emerald City are seen wearing green T-shirts with the word "Oz" printed on the fronts.In the early 1950s, several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. The first company was Tropix Togs, under founder Sam Kantor, in Miami. They were the original licensee for Walt Disney characters in 1976 including Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. Later, other companies expanded into the T-shirt printing business, including Sherry Manufacturing Company, also based in Miami. Sherry, started in 1948 by its owner and founder Quinton Sandler as a screen print scarf business, evolved into one of the largest screen printed resort and licensed apparel companies in the United States.In the 1960s, the ringer T-shirt appeared and became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printingon the basic T-shirt and the T-shirt became a medium for wearable art, commercial advertising, souvenirmessages, and protest art messages. Psychedelic art poster designer Warren Dayton pioneered several political, protest, and pop-culture art printed large and in color on T-shirts featuring images of Cesar Chavez, political cartoons, and other cultural icons in an article in the Los Angeles Times magazine in late 1969 (ironically, the clothing company quickly cancelled the experimental line, fearing there would not be a market). In the late 1960s, Richard Ellman, Robert Tree, Bill Kelly, and Stanley Mouse set up the Monster Company in Mill Valley, California, to produce fine art designs expressly for T-shirts. Monster T-shirts often feature emblems and motifs associated with the Grateful Dead and marijuana culture. Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge from the political turmoil of the 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Today, many notable and memorable T-shirts produced in the 1970s have become ensconced in pop culture. Examples include the bright yellow happy face T-shirts, The Rolling Stones tops with their "tongue and lips"logo, andMilton Glaser's iconic "I ♥ N Y” design. In the mid-1980s, the white T-shirt became fashionable after the actorDon Johnson wore it with an Armani suit in Miami Vice. Screen printingThe most common form of commercial T-shirt decoration is screen-printing. In screen-printing, a design is separated into individual colors. Plastisol or water based inks are applied to the shirt through mesh screens which limits the areas where ink is deposited. In most commercial T-shirt printing, the specific colors in the design are used. To achieve a wider color spectrum with a limited number of colors, process printing (using only cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink) or simulated process (using only white, black, red, green, blue, and gold ink) is effective. Process printing is best suited for light colored shirts. Simulated process is best suited for dark colored shirts.In 1959, the invention of plastisol provided an ink more durable and stretchable than water-based ink, allowing much more variety in T-shirt designs. Very few companies continue to use water-based inks on their shirts. The majority of companies that create shirts prefer plastisol due to the ability to print on varying colors without the need for color adjustment at the art level.Specialty inks trend in and out of fashion and include shimmer, puff, discharge, and chino based inks. A metallic foil can be heat pressed and stamped onto any plastisol ink. When combined with shimmer ink, metallics give a mirror like effect wherever the previously screened plastisol ink was applied. Specialty inks are more expensive to purchase as well as screen and tend to appear on garments in boutiques.Other methods of decoration used on T-shirts include airbrush, applique, embroidery, impressing or embossing, and the ironing on of either flock lettering, heat transfers, or dye-sublimation transfers. Laser printers are capable of printing on plain paper using a special toner containing sublimation dyes which can then be permanently heat-transferred to T-shirts.In the 1980s, the rmochromatic dyes were used to produce T-shirts that changed color when subjected to heat. The Global Hypercolour brand of these was a common sight on the streets of the UK for a few years, but has since mostly disappeared. These were also very popular in the United States among teenagers in the late 1980s. A downside of color-change garments is that the dyes can easily be damaged, especially by washing in warm water, or dye other clothes during washing.Tie dyeTie dye originated in India, Japan, Jamaica, and Africa as early as the sixth century. Some forms of tie dye are Bandhani (the oldest known technique) used in Indian cultures, and Shibori primarily used in Japanese cultures. It was not until the 1960s that tie dye was introduced to America during the hippie movement, a time when the Vietnam War was  being heavily protested. Heat transfer vinylAnother form of T-shirt decoration is heat transfer vinyls. These allow people to make short runs of printed shirts using plotter cut vinyl that they can then heat press onto the garment. They are made in a multitude of colors, patterns, and styles, and some even replicate the look of screen print, like ThermoFlex.Other methodsBefore the hippie movement Rit Dye was known as a hobby for older women. Other methods of decorating shirts include using paints, markers, fabric transfer crayons, dyes, spray paint, and many more. Some techniques that can be used include sponging, stenciling, daubing, stamping, screen printing, bleaching, and many more. Dye-sublimation printingDye-sublimation printing is a direct-to-garment digital printing technology using full color artwork to transfer images to polyester and polymer-coated substrate based T-shirts. Dye-sublimation (also commonly referred to as all-over printing) came into widespread use in the 21st century, enabling some designs previously impossible. Printing with unlimited colors using large CMYK printers with special paper and ink is possible, unlike screen printing which requires screens for each color of the design. All-over print T-shirts have solved the problem with color fading and the vibrancy is higher than most standard printing methods, but requires synthetic fabrics for the ink to take hold. The key feature of dye-sublimated clothing is that the design is not printed on top of the garment, but permanently dyed into the threads of the shirt, ensuring that it will never fade. Dye-sublimation is economically viable for small-quantity printing; the unit cost is similar for short or long production runs. Screen printing has higher setup costs, requiring large numbers to be produced to be cost-effective, and the unit cost is higher.Solid ink is changed into a gas without passing through a liquid phase (sublimation), using heat and pressure. The design is first produced in a computer image file format such as jpg, gif, png, or any other. It is printed on a purpose-made computer printer (as of 2016 most commonly Epson or Ricoh brands) using large heat presses to vaporize the ink directly into the fabric. By mid-2012 this method had become widely used for T-shirts.Expressive messagesSince the 1980s, T-shirts have flourished as a form of personal expression.[4] Screen printed T-shirts have been a standard form of marketing for major consumer products, such as Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse, since the 1970s. However, since the 1990s, it has become common practice for companies of all sizes to produce T-shirts with their corporate logos or messages as part of their overall advertising campaigns. Since the late 1980s and especially the 1990s, T-shirts with prominent designer-name logos have become popular, especially with teenagers and young adults. These garments allow consumers to flaunt their taste for designer brands in an inexpensive way, in addition to being decorative. Examples of designer T-shirt branding include Calvin Klein, FUBU, Ralph Lauren, American Apparel, and The Gap. These examples also include representations of rock bands, among other obscure pop-culture references. Licensed T-shirts are also extremely popular. Movie and TV T-shirts can have images of the actors, logos, and funny quotations from the movie or TV show. Often, the most popular T-shirts are those that characters wore in the film itself (e.g., Bubba Gump from Forrest Gump and Vote For Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite). Designer Katharine Hamnett, in the early 1980s, pioneered outsize T-shirts with large-print slogans. The early first decade of the 21st century saw the renewed popularity of T-shirts with slogans and designs with a strong inclination to the humorous and/or ironic. The trend has only increased later in this decade, embraced by celebrities, such as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and reflected back on them, too ('Team Aniston'). The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society. The statements also may be found to be offensive, shocking, or pornographic to some. Many different organizations have caught on to the statement-making trend, including chain and independent stores, websites, and schools. A popular phrase on the front of T-shirts demonstrating the popularity of T-shirts among tourists is the humorous phrase "I did _____ and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Examples include "My parents went to Las Vegas and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." T-shirt exchange is an activity where people trade the T-shirts that they are wearing.Artists like Bill Beckley, Glen Baldridge and Peter Klashorst use T-shirts in their work. Models such asVictoria Beckham and Gisele Bundchen wore T-shirts through the 2000s. Paris Fashion Week 2014 featured a grunge style T-shirt. Contemporary T-shirt designers like Balmain and Street People Atelier produce new styles of T-shirts.World recordThe current holder of the Guinness World Record for "Most T-Shirts Worn at Once" with 257 T-shirts is Sanath Bandara. The record was set in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 22, 2011. The record was attempted on stage in front of a crowd of people in a public park in Colombo. Bandara surpassed previous record-holder Hwang Kwangheefrom South Korea, who had held the record at 252 shirts.
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jasonwanghandsome-blog ¡ 8 years ago
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All-over print tshirts 2017/5/5
TrendsT-shirts were originally worn as undershirts, but are now worn frequently as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body, other than possibly a brassiereor, rarely, a waistcoat(vest). T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any imaginable combination of words, art and photographs on display. A T-shirt typically extends to the waist. Variants of the T-shirt, such as the V-neck, have been developed. Hip hop fashion calls for tall-T shirts which may extend down to the knees. Long T-shirts are also sometimes worn by women as nightgowns. A 1990s trend in women's clothing involved tight-fitting cropped T-shirt or crop tops short enough to reveal the midriff. Another less popular trend is wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt of a contrasting color over a long-sleeved T-shirt, which is known as layering. T-shirts that are tight to the body are called fitted, tailored or baby doll T-shirts.DecorationOne of the earliest examples of T-shirts with a logo or decoration can be found in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Three men attending to the Scarecrow at the Wash & Brushup Company in Emerald City are seen wearing green T-shirts with the word "Oz" printed on the fronts.In the early 1950s, several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. The first company was Tropix Togs, under founder Sam Kantor, in Miami. They were the original licensee for Walt Disney characters in 1976 including Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. Later, other companies expanded into the T-shirt printing business, including Sherry Manufacturing Company, also based in Miami. Sherry, started in 1948 by its owner and founder Quinton Sandler as a screen print scarf business, evolved into one of the largest screen printed resort and licensed apparel companies in the United States.In the 1960s, the ringer T-shirt appeared and became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printingon the basic T-shirt and the T-shirt became a medium for wearable art, commercial advertising, souvenirmessages, and protest art messages. Psychedelic art poster designer Warren Dayton pioneered several political, protest, and pop-culture art printed large and in color on T-shirts featuring images of Cesar Chavez, political cartoons, and other cultural icons in an article in the Los Angeles Times magazine in late 1969 (ironically, the clothing company quickly cancelled the experimental line, fearing there would not be a market). In the late 1960s, Richard Ellman, Robert Tree, Bill Kelly, and Stanley Mouse set up the Monster Company in Mill Valley, California, to produce fine art designs expressly for T-shirts. Monster T-shirts often feature emblems and motifs associated with the Grateful Dead and marijuana culture. Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge from the political turmoil of the 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Today, many notable and memorable T-shirts produced in the 1970s have become ensconced in pop culture. Examples include the bright yellow happy face T-shirts, The Rolling Stones tops with their "tongue and lips"logo, andMilton Glaser's iconic "I ♥ N Y” design. In the mid-1980s, the white T-shirt became fashionable after the actorDon Johnson wore it with an Armani suit in Miami Vice. Screen printingThe most common form of commercial T-shirt decoration is screen-printing. In screen-printing, a design is separated into individual colors. Plastisol or water based inks are applied to the shirt through mesh screens which limits the areas where ink is deposited. In most commercial T-shirt printing, the specific colors in the design are used. To achieve a wider color spectrum with a limited number of colors, process printing (using only cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink) or simulated process (using only white, black, red, green, blue, and gold ink) is effective. Process printing is best suited for light colored shirts. Simulated process is best suited for dark colored shirts.In 1959, the invention of plastisol provided an ink more durable and stretchable than water-based ink, allowing much more variety in T-shirt designs. Very few companies continue to use water-based inks on their shirts. The majority of companies that create shirts prefer plastisol due to the ability to print on varying colors without the need for color adjustment at the art level.Specialty inks trend in and out of fashion and include shimmer, puff, discharge, and chino based inks. A metallic foil can be heat pressed and stamped onto any plastisol ink. When combined with shimmer ink, metallics give a mirror like effect wherever the previously screened plastisol ink was applied. Specialty inks are more expensive to purchase as well as screen and tend to appear on garments in boutiques.Other methods of decoration used on T-shirts include airbrush, applique, embroidery, impressing or embossing, and the ironing on of either flock lettering, heat transfers, or dye-sublimation transfers. Laser printers are capable of printing on plain paper using a special toner containing sublimation dyes which can then be permanently heat-transferred to T-shirts.In the 1980s, the rmochromatic dyes were used to produce T-shirts that changed color when subjected to heat. The Global Hypercolour brand of these was a common sight on the streets of the UK for a few years, but has since mostly disappeared. These were also very popular in the United States among teenagers in the late 1980s. A downside of color-change garments is that the dyes can easily be damaged, especially by washing in warm water, or dye other clothes during washing.Tie dyeTie dye originated in India, Japan, Jamaica, and Africa as early as the sixth century. Some forms of tie dye are Bandhani (the oldest known technique) used in Indian cultures, and Shibori primarily used in Japanese cultures. It was not until the 1960s that tie dye was introduced to America during the hippie movement, a time when the Vietnam War was  being heavily protested. Heat transfer vinylAnother form of T-shirt decoration is heat transfer vinyls. These allow people to make short runs of printed shirts using plotter cut vinyl that they can then heat press onto the garment. They are made in a multitude of colors, patterns, and styles, and some even replicate the look of screen print, like ThermoFlex.Other methodsBefore the hippie movement Rit Dye was known as a hobby for older women. Other methods of decorating shirts include using paints, markers, fabric transfer crayons, dyes, spray paint, and many more. Some techniques that can be used include sponging, stenciling, daubing, stamping, screen printing, bleaching, and many more. Dye-sublimation printingDye-sublimation printing is a direct-to-garment digital printing technology using full color artwork to transfer images to polyester and polymer-coated substrate based T-shirts. Dye-sublimation (also commonly referred to as all-over printing) came into widespread use in the 21st century, enabling some designs previously impossible. Printing with unlimited colors using large CMYK printers with special paper and ink is possible, unlike screen printing which requires screens for each color of the design. All-over print T-shirts have solved the problem with color fading and the vibrancy is higher than most standard printing methods, but requires synthetic fabrics for the ink to take hold. The key feature of dye-sublimated clothing is that the design is not printed on top of the garment, but permanently dyed into the threads of the shirt, ensuring that it will never fade. Dye-sublimation is economically viable for small-quantity printing; the unit cost is similar for short or long production runs. Screen printing has higher setup costs, requiring large numbers to be produced to be cost-effective, and the unit cost is higher.Solid ink is changed into a gas without passing through a liquid phase (sublimation), using heat and pressure. The design is first produced in a computer image file format such as jpg, gif, png, or any other. It is printed on a purpose-made computer printer (as of 2016 most commonly Epson or Ricoh brands) using large heat presses to vaporize the ink directly into the fabric. By mid-2012 this method had become widely used for T-shirts.Expressive messagesSince the 1980s, T-shirts have flourished as a form of personal expression.[4] Screen printed T-shirts have been a standard form of marketing for major consumer products, such as Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse, since the 1970s. However, since the 1990s, it has become common practice for companies of all sizes to produce T-shirts with their corporate logos or messages as part of their overall advertising campaigns. Since the late 1980s and especially the 1990s, T-shirts with prominent designer-name logos have become popular, especially with teenagers and young adults. These garments allow consumers to flaunt their taste for designer brands in an inexpensive way, in addition to being decorative. Examples of designer T-shirt branding include Calvin Klein, FUBU, Ralph Lauren, American Apparel, and The Gap. These examples also include representations of rock bands, among other obscure pop-culture references. Licensed T-shirts are also extremely popular. Movie and TV T-shirts can have images of the actors, logos, and funny quotations from the movie or TV show. Often, the most popular T-shirts are those that characters wore in the film itself (e.g., Bubba Gump from Forrest Gump and Vote For Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite). Designer Katharine Hamnett, in the early 1980s, pioneered outsize T-shirts with large-print slogans. The early first decade of the 21st century saw the renewed popularity of T-shirts with slogans and designs with a strong inclination to the humorous and/or ironic. The trend has only increased later in this decade, embraced by celebrities, such as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and reflected back on them, too ('Team Aniston'). The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society. The statements also may be found to be offensive, shocking, or pornographic to some. Many different organizations have caught on to the statement-making trend, including chain and independent stores, websites, and schools. A popular phrase on the front of T-shirts demonstrating the popularity of T-shirts among tourists is the humorous phrase "I did _____ and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Examples include "My parents went to Las Vegas and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." T-shirt exchange is an activity where people trade the T-shirts that they are wearing.Artists like Bill Beckley, Glen Baldridge and Peter Klashorst use T-shirts in their work. Models such asVictoria Beckham and Gisele Bundchen wore T-shirts through the 2000s. Paris Fashion Week 2014 featured a grunge style T-shirt. Contemporary T-shirt designers like Balmain and Street People Atelier produce new styles of T-shirts.World recordThe current holder of the Guinness World Record for "Most T-Shirts Worn at Once" with 257 T-shirts is Sanath Bandara. The record was set in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 22, 2011. The record was attempted on stage in front of a crowd of people in a public park in Colombo. Bandara surpassed previous record-holder Hwang Kwangheefrom South Korea, who had held the record at 252 shirts.
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All-over print T-shirts --2017/05/05
Trends
T-shirts were originally worn as undershirts, but are now worn frequently as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body, other than possibly a brassiereor, rarely, a waistcoat(vest). T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any imaginable combination of words, art and photographs on display.
A T-shirt typically extends to the waist. Variants of the T-shirt, such as the V-neck, have been developed. Hip hop fashion calls for tall-T shirts which may extend down to the knees. Long T-shirts are also sometimes worn by women as nightgowns. A 1990s trend in women's clothing involved tight-fitting cropped T-shirt or crop tops short enough to reveal the midriff. Another less popular trend is wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt of a contrasting color over a long-sleeved T-shirt, which is known as layering. T-shirts that are tight to the body are called fitted, tailored or baby doll T-shirts.
Decoration
 One of the earliest examples of T-shirts with a logo or decoration can be found in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Three men attending to the Scarecrow at the Wash & Brushup Company in Emerald City are seen wearing green T-shirts with the word "Oz" printed on the fronts.
In the early 1950s, several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. The first company was Tropix Togs, under founder Sam Kantor, in Miami. They were the original licensee for Walt Disney characters in 1976 including Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. Later, other companies expanded into the T-shirt printing business, including Sherry Manufacturing Company, also based in Miami. Sherry, started in 1948 by its owner and founder Quinton Sandler as a screen print scarf business, evolved into one of the largest screen printed resort and licensed apparel companies in the United States.
In the 1960s, the ringer T-shirt appeared and became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printingon the basic T-shirt and the T-shirt became a medium for wearable art, commercial advertising, souvenirmessages, and protest art messages. Psychedelic art poster designer Warren Dayton pioneered several political, protest, and pop-culture art printed large and in color on T-shirts featuring images of Cesar Chavez, political cartoons, and other cultural icons in an article in the Los Angeles Times magazine in late 1969 (ironically, the clothing company quickly cancelled the experimental line, fearing there would not be a market). In the late 1960s, Richard Ellman, Robert Tree, Bill Kelly, and Stanley Mouse set up the Monster Company in Mill Valley, California, to produce fine art designs expressly for T-shirts. Monster T-shirts often feature emblems and motifs associated with the Grateful Dead and marijuana culture. Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge from the political turmoil of the 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
Today, many notable and memorable T-shirts produced in the 1970s have become ensconced in pop culture. Examples include the bright yellow happy face T-shirts, The Rolling Stones tops with their "tongue and lips"logo, andMilton Glaser's iconic "I ♥ N Y” design. In the mid-1980s, the white T-shirt became fashionable after the actorDon Johnson wore it with an Armani suit in Miami Vice.
Screen printing
The most common form of commercial T-shirt decoration is screen-printing. In screen-printing, a design is separated into individual colors. Plastisol or water based inks are applied to the shirt through mesh screens which limits the areas where ink is deposited. In most commercial T-shirt printing, the specific colors in the design are used. To achieve a wider color spectrum with a limited number of colors, process printing (using only cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink) or simulated process (using only white, black, red, green, blue, and gold ink) is effective. Process printing is best suited for light colored shirts. Simulated process is best suited for dark colored shirts.
In 1959, the invention of plastisol provided an ink more durable and stretchable than water-based ink, allowing much more variety in T-shirt designs. Very few companies continue to use water-based inks on their shirts. The majority of companies that create shirts prefer plastisol due to the ability to print on varying colors without the need for color adjustment at the art level.
Specialty inks trend in and out of fashion and include shimmer, puff, discharge, and chino based inks. A metallic foil can be heat pressed and stamped onto any plastisol ink. When combined with shimmer ink, metallics give a mirror like effect wherever the previously screened plastisol ink was applied. Specialty inks are more expensive to purchase as well as screen and tend to appear on garments in boutiques.
Other methods of decoration used on T-shirts include airbrush, applique, embroidery, impressing or embossing, and the ironing on of either flock lettering, heat transfers, or dye-sublimation transfers. Laser printers are capable of printing on plain paper using a special toner containing sublimation dyes which can then be permanently heat-transferred to T-shirts.
In the 1980s, the rmochromatic dyes were used to produce T-shirts that changed color when subjected to heat. The Global Hypercolour brand of these was a common sight on the streets of the UK for a few years, but has since mostly disappeared. These were also very popular in the United States among teenagers in the late 1980s. A downside of color-change garments is that the dyes can easily be damaged, especially by washing in warm water, or dye other clothes during washing.
Tie dye
Tie dye originated in India, Japan, Jamaica, and Africa as early as the sixth century. Some forms of tie dye are Bandhani (the oldest known technique) used in Indian cultures, and Shibori primarily used in Japanese cultures. It was not until the 1960s that tie dye was introduced to America during the hippie movement, a time when the Vietnam War was  being heavily protested.
Heat transfer vinyl
Another form of T-shirt decoration is heat transfer vinyls. These allow people to make short runs of printed shirts using plotter cut vinyl that they can then heat press onto the garment. They are made in a multitude of colors, patterns, and styles, and some even replicate the look of screen print, like ThermoFlex.
Other methods
Before the hippie movement Rit Dye was known as a hobby for older women. Other methods of decorating shirts include using paints, markers, fabric transfer crayons, dyes, spray paint, and many more. Some techniques that can be used include sponging, stenciling, daubing, stamping, screen printing, bleaching, and many more.
Dye-sublimation printing
 Dye-sublimation printing is a direct-to-garment digital printing technology using full color artwork to transfer images to polyester and polymer-coated substrate based T-shirts. Dye-sublimation (also commonly referred to as all-over printing) came into widespread use in the 21st century, enabling some designs previously impossible. Printing with unlimited colors using large CMYK printers with special paper and ink is possible, unlike screen printing which requires screens for each color of the design. All-over print T-shirts have solved the problem with color fading and the vibrancy is higher than most standard printing methods, but requires synthetic fabrics for the ink to take hold. The key feature of dye-sublimated clothing is that the design is not printed on top of the garment, but permanently dyed into the threads of the shirt, ensuring that it will never fade.
Dye-sublimation is economically viable for small-quantity printing; the unit cost is similar for short or long production runs. Screen printing has higher setup costs, requiring large numbers to be produced to be cost-effective, and the unit cost is higher.
Solid ink is changed into a gas without passing through a liquid phase (sublimation), using heat and pressure. The design is first produced in a computer image file format such as jpg, gif, png, or any other. It is printed on a purpose-made computer printer (as of 2016 most commonly Epson or Ricoh brands) using large heat presses to vaporize the ink directly into the fabric. By mid-2012 this method had become widely used for T-shirts.
Expressive messages
Since the 1980s, T-shirts have flourished as a form of personal expression.[4] Screen printed T-shirts have been a standard form of marketing for major consumer products, such as Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse, since the 1970s. However, since the 1990s, it has become common practice for companies of all sizes to produce T-shirts with their corporate logos or messages as part of their overall advertising campaigns. Since the late 1980s and especially the 1990s, T-shirts with prominent designer-name logos have become popular, especially with teenagers and young adults. These garments allow consumers to flaunt their taste for designer brands in an inexpensive way, in addition to being decorative. Examples of designer T-shirt branding include Calvin Klein, FUBU, Ralph Lauren, American Apparel, and The Gap. These examples also include representations of rock bands, among other obscure pop-culture references. Licensed T-shirts are also extremely popular. Movie and TV T-shirts can have images of the actors, logos, and funny quotations from the movie or TV show. Often, the most popular T-shirts are those that characters wore in the film itself (e.g., Bubba Gump from Forrest Gump and Vote For Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite). Designer Katharine Hamnett, in the early 1980s, pioneered outsize T-shirts with large-print slogans. The early first decade of the 21st century saw the renewed popularity of T-shirts with slogans and designs with a strong inclination to the humorous and/or ironic. The trend has only increased later in this decade, embraced by celebrities, such as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and reflected back on them, too ('Team Aniston'). The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society. The statements also may be found to be offensive, shocking, or pornographic to some. Many different organizations have caught on to the statement-making trend, including chain and independent stores, websites, and schools. A popular phrase on the front of T-shirts demonstrating the popularity of T-shirts among tourists is the humorous phrase "I did _____ and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." Examples include "My parents went to Las Vegas and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." T-shirt exchange is an activity where people trade the T-shirts that they are wearing.
Artists like Bill Beckley, Glen Baldridge and Peter Klashorst use T-shirts in their work. Models such asVictoria Beckham and Gisele Bundchen wore T-shirts through the 2000s. Paris Fashion Week 2014 featured a grunge style T-shirt. Contemporary T-shirt designers like Balmain and Street People Atelier produce new styles of T-shirts.
World record
The current holder of the Guinness World Record for "Most T-Shirts Worn at Once" with 257 T-shirts is Sanath Bandara. The record was set in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 22, 2011. The record was attempted on stage in front of a crowd of people in a public park in Colombo. Bandara surpassed previous record-holder Hwang Kwangheefrom South Korea, who had held the record at 252 shirts.
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