Workshop "T-shirt printing made easy" at Nähcafé Kiel
Now that the congress is over, our T-shirt printing experts are making a short stop in Kiel, where we want to spread our knowledge of T-shirt production. So there will be a workshop on T-shirt design at the local Nähcafé. There we will turn your T-shirt idea, or one of our templates, into a finished printed T-shirt which you can take away with you straight after the course. We will show you the basics of the open source program Inkscape (Mac, Win, Linux) and convert a template (a photo or logo, say) into a vector graphic suitable as a motif.
T-shirt production at 30c3
Until tomorrow we are present at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg with an assembly. Thanks to numerous interested visitors, the cutting plotter and the T-shirt press are running almost continuously, and people are busily developing, plotting and pressing their own T-shirt designs. The important part of the process is less the T-shirt itself than that visitors learn thoroughly how to print T-shirts themselves under guidance — from the graphic to the press.
Fresh from the T-shirt press
Today we inaugurated the cutting plotter and the T-shirt press. Now you can print T-shirts here too! With our plotter, Poli-Flex Premium film needs a contact pressure of 65 g. After that it wants to be pressed for 20 seconds with the carrier film and another 15 seconds without it, at 165 °C in the T-shirt press. Designs should be saved as vector graphics in SVG format. More information about T-shirt printing at Starship Factory is in the wiki.