Our Print Styles

We sure can! Know, though, that with water-based and discharge ink, not all fabrics print the same. 100% cotton will give a different result than a 50/50 blend or a tri-blend.

You got it! We can match any Solid Uncoated Pantone color. It's tough to match perfectly since we are printing on fabric, but we'll get it as close as possible. If Pantone matches are your biggest print concern, we recommend you print your design with our Bold ink, which has the most true-to-color-match print result.

Yes, we can — but these prints can be tricky, and in some instances, we don't recommend over-the-seam prints. We recommend talking with one of our printing pros before locking in on an over-the-seam print style.

In some cases, yes — but we recommend talking with a team member about the desired result you're going for. Sometimes, we advise against over-the-zipper printing and have a few other tried-and-true solutions which yield better results.

Yes! That's what we're known for here at Real Thread. No plastisol here!

Yes! We offer various specialty printing services and styles — from metallic inks to foil printing to custom tags and beyond.

Four Color Process printing, also known as CMYK, performs the same way your inkjet printer does, blending the four colors, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (Black), to produce full-color images as opposed to spot color images. Four Color Process with water-based inks is best when printed on white or light-colored shirts and does not work well on dark shirts. For full-color images on dark shirts, we recommend Simulated Process printing.

Simulated Process printing is an amped-up version of the Four Color Process. It can produce very photo-realistic images with a high amount of detail. It uses traditional spot colors yet blends them in a four-color process manner, simulating full-color images. This process works very well on both light and dark-colored garments. The ink color count for simulated process jobs is often in the five to ten color range, making it the best process for higher quantity runs.

Every shirt starts in its natural color cotton and then is dyed into your shirt color. Garment dyes used when dying Kelly Green, Royal Blue, and Red shirts are often stubborn to discharge printing.

We recommend using our Bold ink when printing on these colors. Manufacturers continue striving to make their dyes more discharge-friendly, so this could become less challenging.