You’re watching a live feed from our screen printing operation.
This is where your custom t-shirt is born.

On the bottom left of the screen is an eight color M&R automatic. Your can see the silk screen and ink for one of the colors used to print the custom t-shirt. Once the job is setup and ready to run, a press operator starts to load shirts on the press. As the shirts go around the press they stop under each color in the design. Then a squeegee pushes the ink through the screen onto the shirt. When they are all finished another person inspects the design and places the printed shirts on the dryer belt. Inside the heat chamber the shirts will reach a temperature of 400 degrees. When they come out, the finished shirt is inspected one more time, counted and packed up for shipping.

At the top of the screen you can see one of our larger presses. This baby can print up to 12 colors at once. We use this press to achieve some of the awesome photorealistic prints Safari Sun is known for. You might see a bright light from the top left corner. Don't worry. The print shop isn't on fire. That's the light from our flash cure unit. That machine is used to cure some of the inks right on the press. The flash unit blasts the shirt with a quartz light that reaches 1200 degrees. It helps us keep the prints bright and sharp on the dark colored T-shirts. It doesn’t help so much with the power bill though.

Now that you're a T-shirt expert, give us a call and let us know what these guys can print for you.