“I’m so glad I chose to print my designs on the cheapest t-shirts I could find…said no one ever!”
This something we have known for a long time but have only really shared it with people over the phone.
To see an image that really shows you side by side, the difference between a premium AS Colour t-shirt and a cheaper t-shirt, is super powerful.
In the t-shirt printing industry over the past few years, it has been trendy for companies to offer “Environmentally Friendly” printing services to their clients. Usually what they are really promoting is printing t-shirts with water based inks.
Now as someone who is an industry insider, let me shed some light on the reality of the situation.
All t-shirt suppliers use this code when describing their different garment options, and you might have been wondering, what is GSM? We thought we might go through that for you to help clarify this term.
GSM stands for Grams per Square Metre – so it’s referring to the weight of the fabric. However, a lot of people often form the opinion that lightweight fabric equals poor quality and heavyweight fabric equals good quality…..this is not always the case!
In fact, a lot of t-shirt suppliers who have lightweight t-shirts available actually charge more for this option.
So what does equal quality?
A few months back we were sifting through our enquiries we get through the website, and we came across an intriguing email. It read…
“Good afternoon from the UK. I am writing because I have a request. I work for a company called FESPA, we are a federation of associations in the Screen and Digital print industries. We also arrange events and exhibitions for the industry. In October this year we have an exhibition in Singapore (FESPA Asia www.fespaasia.com) Having identified your company as being the leader in online screen printing in Australia, I would very much like to have a conversation about the potential of your CEO/Managing Director being able to present to other screen printers in the Asia Pacific Region at our event. I look forward to hearing from you.”
Now…we do get all kinds of spammers through the website, so initially I put this down to some sort of Nigerian scam, but it certainly stroked the ego a bit so I had to check it out.
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