The following is the classification of T-shirts for your reference:
Classified by purpose
1. Commodity T-shirts: T-shirts that enter regular commodity circulation channels for social consumers.
2. Advertising T-shirts: T-shirts for the purpose of carrying advertisements belong to a type of advertising media, and their content can be commercial advertisements, political advertisements, public service advertisements, etc.
3. Tourist T-shirts: Tourist T-shirts have a considerable status in the foreign tourist souvenir market. Tourist attractions, historical sites, and cultural landscapes must be accompanied by a large number of tourist T-shirts and T-shirt shops. Travel T-shirts can best reflect national culture, regional culture, local customs and culture, natural landscape culture and political history culture.
4. Group T-shirts: as large as an international social organization, as small as a team or band, it is always proud to have your own T-shirt.
5. Themed T-shirts: Major historical themes, cultural and entertainment projects, political activities, and celebrity fun events will also be reflected on the T-shirts to satisfy people’s desire for participation and commemoration. Such as the theme of Hong Kong’s return in 1997 and the theme of the 1998 World Cup have brought about a huge wave of T-shirts and achieved considerable social and economic benefits.
6. Brand T-shirts: Many brand-name apparels often produce T-shirts of their own brands in order to achieve both fame (advertising effect) and profit.
Classified by stamp
1. Partially printed T-shirt: The main printed parts are: front body, back, front left upper chest, cuffs, lower back collar, etc. Partially printed T-shirts account for more than 70% of the total T-shirts.
2. Full-body printed T-shirts: Full-body printed T-shirts are divided into three categories: cloth printing, piece printing and ready-to-wear printing. Among them, the full-body printing of ready-made garments needs to be produced by a special T-shirt printing machine, which currently represents the highest level of technical equipment for T-shirt printing.
3. Water-based pigment printing: mainly used for white T-shirt printing.
4. Glue printing: mainly used for dyeing T-shirt printing.
5. Thermosetting ink printing: suitable for all kinds of fabrics (including chemical fiber), it is the most promising ink for T-shirt printing, because it is suitable for the use of advanced computer design and modern automatic production methods, symbolizing contemporary technology Development trend. In particular, the effect of printing screen patterns on dark fabrics is incomparable to glue, which speeds up the speed of glue exiting the field of T-shirt printing.
6. Transfer printing T-shirt: There are mainly two types: hot-melt adhesive type and deinking penetrating type.
7. Special paint printing: The main types are blasting paste printing, flocking printing, photosensitive, water-sensitive, thermal paint printing, luminous paint printing, fragrance paint printing, colorful decorative sheet (laser sheet) printing, etc.
8. Special process processing: such as anti-dye printing, discharge printing and batik, tie-dye T-shirts, etc.
9. Embroidered T-shirt.
10. Composite technology, that is, composite processing of the above-mentioned various printing and processing technology into a T-shirt pattern.