Athletic printing methods

[Dottonedan]

 I'm curious to see how other people are doing athletic printing these days. The heavy athletic logos and even numbers seem to be out of trend even for athletic Printing and I am just checking to confirm that's true for the most part.

 Example
 You can print a Vegas gold and they read on a black tea with no under base. But they use heavy athletic ink print the gold ones flash gold again and then the lighter red. This Read is actually supported by the gold and looks very bright because of the print flash print on the gold. So it looks good visually but feels very very heavy.

 On the flipside.   You can print another base flash and then print lighter screens hire mash of the red in Vegas gold leaving less of an athletic feel but still the athletic look.

How are you all handling athletic printing for teams not necessarily the team uniforms but just football team T-shirt logos etc.

[Colin]

Here - we treat logos just like garment printing.  Base plates and proper trapping.

Mesh garments - mesh is special.... depending we will pfp or underbase colors..... always situational. 

We have a numbering press so we use low cure plastisol - One Stroke ELT-S - and hopefully we have little to no bleed on problem garments.

We are not an athletic shop - we just know a lot of people in the biz.

[3Deep]

Any jersey we print that is a contact sport we print heavy ink (football, baseball because they slide), so that it can take the beating, non contact just like any other garment

[Sbrem]

No special considerations for athletic printing here, just whatever it takes depending on the garment. We print a lot of PMS 4515 (a local college's call out for Vegas Gold) and always use a white underlay, just habit I guess, (we could PFP a vegas gold through a 110) but most of that schools work is multi-color with white as one of the colors, so...

Steve

[Dottonedan]

The method I'm seeing here is way heavy. Solid over solid. I've seen some of their issue jobs and say that ink buildup on the print being too thick is def a big problem.

Don't get me wrong, for the most part, colors were dead on what they were to be. No shirt show thu there.
Old school bullet proof is what has me curious and caused me to post.

[RICK STEFANICK]

For high school and college football Riddell requires the garments to withstand 25 washes.