Band merch

[Bellyheart]

I've been terrible at creating consumables for my band since I've played music. Currently we have a great tshirt that our friend screen prints whenever we need more. However, I'm talking to other artist who do great art and I wouldn't wanna bastardize their abilities asking them to stick to the realms of layers. I also won't ask my friend to do more than 2 layers considering the deal he gives us.

I see a lot of clothing with photos on them. Really professional. A lot of street wear. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a place to source this or if this is possible on the DIY scale of things. I don't even know if the process or type has a name.

Example
http://www.oddfuture.com/collections/sp ... ather-grey

Anyone know how to get this done?

[Ugly Nora]

Instead of shirts with photos, you should make up a bunch of "I went to a Navi show and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" shirts. A timeless classic.

[retinal orbita]

Nuclear War Now makes awesome, detailed shirts and they use something called discharge printing. It's totally great looking stuff.....

[neonblack]

i love this shirt.
In addition to discharge printing, see about laser printing. You can get stuff like this with laser prints.

[dase]

discharge printing is basically screen printing but it uses ink that bleaches the actual fabric of the shirt, yeah?

[tuffteef]

i used to work for a screen printing joint they used to do stuff like this all the time
they just split the photo into lots of layers/different shades then round and round on the printing machine

its pretty cool ill be honest...


any screen print joint should be able to do it fine

[Bellyheart]

thanks for the help everyone. I'm looking into it...money is always the hold up.