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Each year The Print Room create thousands of School Leavers Hoodies for schools in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill and ev...

In the Fast Fifteen series we introduce The Print Room staff by asking them a quick round of fifteen questions so you can get to know our crew a little better.

If you’re looking to print on t-shirts (or any other custom merch), you have three main options: screen printing, direct to garment (DTG) or Supacolour heat press transfers. Each of these methods of t shirt printing has its strengths. Screen printing is one of the oldest (and most popular particularly for larger orders) methods around for t shirt printing. It involves creating a stencil of your design on a screen in which ink is printed through and onto the t shirt fabric. DTG is a more modern technology: it uses a modified inkjet printer to apply ink to the t shirt. Finally, Supacolour heat transfers are a digital/screenprint hybrid, these have only become readily available in New Zealand in the past few years. When you order Supacolours your design is printed onto a mylar which is then heat pressed onto the t shirt by one of our production team. 

 

Each year we're lucky enough to work with students from over 100 High School's and Colleges through New Zealand to produce their custom School Leavers Gear. Check out the top 5 products that were ordered from our 2019 School Leavers Catalogue.

The Bold’s - The Curve Crusher campaign has immortalised NZ’s Director-General of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, and raised over $140,000 for the Women’s Refuge - Gift a Safe Night charity.

We appreciate that what we do is a bit of a mystery for some. Lots of people have never thought about how the artwork got onto their go-to t-shirt or favourite cap, or that it’s someone’s job to put it there. The embroidery process was pretty new to us before we bought our embroidery machine, we learnt the inns and out quickly though and have decided to share some of our knowledge of the process. Cast your eyes over the below for some insights into the setting up of an embroidery job.