Screen Printing on T-Shirts in Barcelona and Madrid

A company’s corporate image is one of the most important factors for its success in the market. In this regard, using custom screen-printed T-shirts is an excellent way to strengthen your employer brand and build customer loyalty. Textilo is a wholesale T-shirt manufacturer that specializes in these types of products, offering a wide variety of high-quality options to suit any budget and customer need.

Custom T-shirts are a key element in promoting events, festivals, marathons, and corporate gifts. They can also be an excellent option for work uniforms. In this regard, buying T-shirts in bulk is an excellent way to save money and ensure product quality.

Textilo offers affordable wholesale T-shirts, made with high-quality materials and using state-of-the-art screen-printing techniques. The company offers a wide variety of options in terms of designs, colors, and styles, so that every customer can find the perfect T-shirt for their needs.

Textilo offers a wide range of T-shirt quality levels to suit any budget and customer need. From promotional quality to premium quality, the company has options to meet every customer’s needs. Additionally, order volume is an important factor in determining the price of the T-shirts. The larger the order volume, the lower the price per T-shirt. Therefore, the ideal quantity to get the best price is 2,500 units or more.

Screen printing is one of the most commonly used techniques for customizing wholesale T-shirts. In this regard, at Textilo, the minimum order is typically 100 identical units with the same T-shirt color and design. This technique ensures that the design maintains high quality over a long period of time, guaranteeing that the company’s corporate image remains top-of-mind for customers.

As for the cities where these custom wholesale T-shirts can be purchased, Textilo has a presence in several cities across Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, and Bilbao. The company also offers the option to buy wholesale T-shirts online, which simplifies the purchasing process for these products.

At Textilo, you can find a wide variety of wholesale T-shirt options, including blank, screen-printed, solid-color, and printed T-shirts; options for bulk customization; basic styles; and promotional items, among others. You can also find wholesale cotton T-shirt options for men, women, and children. In addition, the company offers a wide variety of long-sleeve and short-sleeve wholesale T-shirts to meet the needs of every customer.

In terms of pricing, Textilo is one of the most affordable wholesale T-shirt manufacturers on the market, offering competitive prices while guaranteeing product quality. In addition, the company also offers wholesale T-shirts for printing and wholesale promotional T-shirts, so that every customer can find the best option for their business.

Screen printing is a very popular printing technique for customizing T-shirts, and in this tutorial, we’ll show you how we screen print a T-shirt.

Before you begin, you’ll need a few materials. Here’s what you’ll need:

1. A screen printing frame: This is the main tool you’ll need to screen print. The frame consists of a mesh stretched over a wooden or aluminum frame. The mesh is coated with a photosensitive emulsion that is exposed to light to create the design.
2. A squeegee: The squeegee is used to apply the ink to the screen.
3. Screen printing ink: The ink is what transfers the image to the T-shirt. Screen printing ink is available in a wide variety of colors and consistencies.
4. A T-shirt: Of course, you’ll need a T-shirt to print your design on.
5. Once you have all the materials, it’s time to get started.

The process:

1. Create your design: First, you’ll need to create the design you want to print on the T-shirt. You can do this in a graphic design program like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, or draw it by hand on paper and then scan it. Make sure the design is in a format that can be printed with a laser printer.
2. Print the design: Use a laser printer to print your design onto transparent paper. Make sure the print size matches that of your screen.
3. Prepare the screen: Place the screen on a table or flat surface and cover the unprinted areas of the design with masking tape to prevent the photosensitive emulsion from seeping through them. Then, apply the photosensitive emulsion to both sides of the screen. Let it air dry for about 2 hours or according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
4. Exposure: Place your printed design in a glass frame on top of the screen. Then, expose it to a high-intensity light, such as a halogen lamp or a screen printing exposure lamp, for a few minutes. The emulsion will harden where the light hits it, creating a stencil of the printed image on the screen.
5. Clean the screen: After exposure, remove the stencil and wash the screen with pressurized water. The water will wash away the emulsion where the light didn’t hit it, leaving a sharp image of your design on the screen.
6. Position the T-shirt: Place the T-shirt on a table or flat surface and make sure it’s wrinkle-free. Place a sheet of paper under the fabric to prevent the ink from seeping through the T-shirt.
7. Apply the ink: Use a squeegee to apply the ink to the screen. Make sure the screen is pressed firmly against the fabric to prevent the ink from seeping underneath the screen. Apply the ink with even strokes.

As you can see, this process involves a significant amount of setup time—there are many steps to complete during the preparation phase—but once that’s done, the actual printing is the fastest part. For this reason, it’s the best option for large orders. In the textile industry, we typically place screen-printing orders for more than 2,500 units, and we have the capacity to produce up to 25,000 screen-printed items per week.

Screen printing is not a cost- or time-efficient technique for small orders. If you need to place orders of fewer than 100 units, the standard approach is to customize or print the T-shirts using digital printing, DTF, or DPI. These techniques have a much shorter setup time, but their cost is higher; therefore, they are not usually cost-effective for large orders.

As you can see, we’ve explained a range of complementary techniques, and the choice will depend on your design and the number of T-shirts you need. Our specialists are experts in this field and spend one month training at the factory before they’re ready to serve their first customer. That’s why we’re proud to say you can count on them to advise you throughout the entire purchasing, sales, and post-sales process. What are you waiting for?