East Bay Screenprint Custom Shirts and Screen Printing Gallery

Here’s a fun colorful print we did for an SF-based band.  A trio of neon colors on white v-neck shirts (sunglasses not included).

This six color design was a little more involved when printing, and came out beautifully.

This is a nice, clean print we did for some motorcycle enthusiasts.  5-color print on ol’ trusty Gildan 2000 garments, and yes, we avoided getting on the bad
side of this particular penguin!

Three color (there’s a white underbase under all of that) print for the band Filter.

Six color waterbased discharge print for the man himself.

Stump This! Two greys, two whites, and a bone color. Done son.

Miso Shirts

We love it when clients bring us food ideas to print. Especially when it’s a food we love.  And we really, really like it when they bring a sample of the food with them!

This  print was for the Japanese External Organization of San Francisco, promoting, you guessed it, Miso. They used our lighter weight shirts, as this was for marketing, and not workwear.  It’s a great example of a good looking single color screenprint, using design and typography to create interest as opposed to multiple colors.

Plastisol for the athletic look on this dude. As much as we love discharge inks, sometimes, they just don’t fit the art. Don’t need a credit card to ride this train…

Mr. Roboto strikes again!

More Huey Lewis!  This fella’s a 3-color print plus a discharge underbase.

This print was a bit more complicated than usual.  In addition to the gold foil used for the medallion, the leaves in the center are made up of about fifty rhinestones for additional shine.  Another interesting challenge was ensuring the placement of the print so that it would appear like a necklace, even going all the way up to the shoulders.  Needless to say our client (and us of course) were very happy with how these turned out!

We’ve printed shirts for the Celtic rock band Tempest for years, and for this run they wanted something a bit more eye-catching.  We printed this design in gold shimmer, and added a drop-shadow effect as well.  The shirts turned out amazing, making their 25th anniversary tour that much more special!

Here’s a fun, colorful print we did for Google’s 4th of July celebration. This bright and snazzy
seven color design was printed on Red Gildan 5000 garments. A super rush job (aren’t they all)
we had this turned around  in 2 business days.

Here’s a print we did for a local clothing line, two color waterbase on soft fashion tanks.

3 colors, plus an underbase to keep the red and yellow inks nice and bright.  These were run plastisol, as royal is on the list of garment colors that don’t react well with discharge printing.

Here’s a 4 color waterbased print on light shirts
that we did for the Montclair Elementary Metrathon.

We used Port and Company Organic cotton shirts,
and waterbased inks. Not only do these shirts have
a very nice feel, this is arguably the most
environmentally friendly way to screen print
t-shirts.

Of course, great artwork always helps as well.

Five color waterbased discharge designed and printed in house. Going for a 1920’s propaganda feel, the tank literally pops off the garment. It’s awesome.

2012 SF Giants World Series Champions Tee

Hey, remember when this happened? We sure do! For most folks it meant an exciting home team win.
For us it meant that plus printing from the second they won the game until early the following morning,
non-stop. Hot market they call it, and it’s a whole new ball game. Lowish meshes and plastisol inks for
exact color matches and the fastest printing possible. We can run at 2000 pieces an hour under the right
conditions. Luckily we don’t have to do that often. If you are from the bay Area and own one of these
shirts chances are good it passed through our shop. Quickly.

Go Giants!

3 color plastisol print

Sometimes plastisol makes sense. While discharge and waterbased printing has been around for a long
long time, it has only recently become increasingly popular for custom t-shirt printing. Early metal
shirts were certainly not discharged, and many a hesher would be terribly disappointed with anything
less than a full front shield of bright plastisol. So why make hesher’s sad?
We don’t. We love discharge, but it’s only a tool in the box. Plastisol still has it’s purpose.

Here’s a 4 color discharge print, this one of a large and colorful tour tee for the band Railroad Earth.

Winger 25th Anniversary print. Plastisol on this guy, as there were American Apparel tri-blend shirts up in the mix. 6 colors, in house seps ya’ll.

Three color plastisol, again due to tri-blend fabric. We’ve got some tricks to keep that fuzz down though.

White Discharge print on black shirts, super soft!

Here’s a waterbase discharge print for Bay Area musician Mick Shaffer for his CD release a few years back. Fresh from the wayback machine!
You may have noticed that we talk about and display waterbased and discharge printing a lot, there’s a reason for this; in many cases it is far
superior to the “standard” plastisol inks used by many printers. We’d like to think that it should be the other way around. Waterbased prints
are softer, brighter, won’t crack or chip, and best of all they breathe! After washing a shirt printed with waterbase/discharge ink you won’t be able
to feel the print at all. What’s not to like about that?

An interesting 2 color print, this design almost appears 3D on the shirts. Waterbased discharge makes for a super soft print you can’t even feel on the
garment. This particular job from the archives was for Google’s Android graphics camp.

Another design we printed for ourselves, this design came out very nice and clean.  Not always an easy feat on thermal garments! For this we used straight discharge base on Royal Apparel %100 cotton thermals. This allows us to get down into the waffling of the fabric and still maintain a soft breathable print. See if you can find the typo…

This three color print came out great, and thanks to the underbase the “jungle” appears even more vibrant!

While this print is about a year old, it really represents the colors of that time, NEON!!!! This shirt is for the Exploratorium, which if you’re a Bay Area native, needs no further explanation.

This print is made up of two different inks. The red background is waterbased discharge, our secret mix that results in a very bright red that washes well. On top of that is black plastisol. We went with plastisol for the black as we wanted the print to have a bit of gloss to it to stand out from the ground, Gildan 5000 Charcoal shirts.

Here’s a nice 4 color plastisol print for an animation company. He literally looks like he’s jumping off the shirt!

Here is a 4 color oversized waterbased discharge
print we did for a local high school club. There are
not many shop that print waterbased discharge,
and if this particular print had been executed
using standard plastisol inks the result would
have been like wearing a heavy shield on your
chest. Waterbased discharge inks actually
become part of the fabric, and after washing can
not be felt by the hand. They are also bright and
breathable, which makes them preferred for many
designs.

Here’s a neat three color waterbased design we printed recently. We really like waterbased inks as the end result is super vibrant and soft. The ink
actually becomes a part of the fabric, and once the garment is washed it can’t be felt.

BrewSkee Ball!

We’ve now printed 2 seasons of these BrewSkeeBall
shirts. We use both Gildan and American Apparel
shirts, and a bright single color water based discharge  on both.

Four color print for Game Attain

East Bay Screenprinting recently printed these shirts for Game Attain. This particular print is a good example of halftoning used for gradient and fade effects in screen printing. This is an area that other printers often struggle with, but we’ve got it down. On this particular screen print, we used a 355 mesh screen that allows for very fine detail to be held. 65 Lines Per Inch means that even up close, the individual halftone dots can be hard to see.

East Oakland Boxing Association

We printed these shirts for the East Oakland Boxing Association.  A simple clean white print on Black and Kelly Gildan 2000 shirts. The bottom text is reversed out and smaller than 10 point, and we held the detail just fine.

Printed Safety Vests

We recently screen printed these safety vests for a company that does contract work for Comcast Cable out of the South Bay, near San Jose . They went with a 2 color logo on our  green Economy Safety Vests.