Adult T-shirt - Religious Art - St. Kateri Tekakwitha by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM

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Adult T-shirt - Religious Art - St. Kateri Tekakwitha by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM:
$24.95

Adult T-shirt -ST. KATERI TEKAKWITHA icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM

T-SHIRTS
A stunning art image ‘tattooed” into the fabric of these specially manufactured t-shirts via a special sublimation printing process.

Our shirts are specially engineered for dye-sublimation to ensure the most brilliant and long lasting colors possible. The art image permanently bonds with the fabric and will not fade or peel, wash after wash. A luxuriously soft heavyweight garment! Each garment is engineered with Intera moisture wicking technology which provides optimal temperature and moisture control, allowing your skin to stay cool and dry even in extreme conditions.

These shirts are made of revolutionary fabrics. Light and durable, micro-fiber and spun poly performance fabrics with the feel of cotton are comfortable and sturdy. Two needle cover stitch-in hems, reinforced neck tape, and four-thread over-lock stitching is added for additional support including a shoulder-to-shoulder neck tape. Our art images are \"tattooed\" into these shirts via a special process called sublimation printing.

Available in Adult, Ladies, Youth, and Toddler versions. Please see Shirt and Sizing Charts.

Sublimation Printing
Dye Sublimation is a printing technique that allows us to print full color images on a wide array of items such as t-shirts and coffee-tea mugs and ceramic tiles. Solid dye particles are converted into a gas using heat and pressure then are forced to bond with the material they are dyeing and converted back to a solid.

How does sublimation printing differ from screen printing?
With Dye Sublimation the dye is actually absorbed (“tattooed”) into the material as opposed to ink sitting on top of the material as with screen printing. Because of this, only light colored shirts can be used to Dye Sublimate. Think of it like this, if you add green dye to black paint you will still have black paint. The major difference is the ability to print not in four or six color as with screen printing, but FULL COLOR. Imagine the possibilities of being able to print full color photo quality images onto t-shirts and coffee-tea mugs and tiles.

Dye-Sublimation:Continuous-tone output technology that produces near-photographic quality color prints which are better than those produced by a four-color commercial printing press. However, this technology requires expensive ink and paper.
—From the Business Directory

Dye-Sublimation: Uses high heat and solid dyes to produce photo lab-quality images. Dye-Sub printers contain a roll of transparent film made up of page-sized panels of color. Solid dyes in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black are embedded in the film. Print head heating elements vaporize the inks which adhere to a specially-coated paper. As the ink cools it re-solidifies on the paper. Color intensity is controlled by precise variations in temperature.

Dye-sublimation printers lay down color in continuous tones one color at a time, instead of dots of ink. Because the color is absorbed into the paper rather than sitting on the surface, the output is more photo-realistic, more durable, and less vulnerable to fading than other ink technologies.
—From About.com Desktop Publishing

How does sublimation apply to our t-shirts, coffee-tea mugs and tiles?
Special inks need to be used that have the ability, when heated, to transform from their solid state to their gaseous state bypassing the liquid state. The images originate on a piece of transfer paper that is produced from a dye sublimation computer printer. The inks also need to have similar characteristics to polyester, a form of plastic. This is only half of the puzzle. The other half is that the ceramics or t-shirts need to be specially treated. The transfer paper containing the sublimation inks is placed on the specially treated ceramic or t-shirt, both heat and pressure is then applied. The inks begin to sublimate around 375º F making the products very receptive to the gases from the inks. The gases penetrate and mix with the coating on the ceramic or t-shirt fabric and when cooled, the gasses return to their solid state. You now have a very permanent image that will last a very long time. The ceramic mugs and tiles won\'t chip or peal and are microwave and dishwasher safe. The art images on the t-shirts are ‘tattooed’ into the fabric so there is no ‘hand’ or feel as with screen printing images. The t-shirts are machine washable and the art image will not crack or peel.

Our Products:
Trinity Religious Artwork & Icons (trinitystores) represents a select group of world renowned artists who create magnificent works of religious art. These amazing artworks are found in churches and schools and homes and even on people (on t-shirts) throughout the world. Our products are produced using state-of-the-art digital reproductions of the artwork on the highest quality materials and craftsmanship.

Our products are displayed in public areas admired by thousands of people and as family heirlooms for individual devotions. The artwork products are “Prayer Windows.” All products are custom made per order and are not mass produced.

If you do not see the image you desire, please contact us for a selection of 900+ artworks & icons that you can choose from for your T-shirt.

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CONTACT US:
Trinity Stores: Religious Artwork & Icons
PO Box 631294 Highlands Ranch CO 80163-1294
Phone: 720.344.9212
Phone: 800.699.4482
FAX: 303.471.6167
info at trinitystores dot com

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