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Re: Bumper Numbers

Michael's carries a home screen printing kit that works well on shirts. The image is transferred to the screen by using a transparency and exposing the negative of you image using a stong light in a dark room. If your font doesn't change you can leave the screen with your image on it and it will dry thay way permanently, or you can wash the screen out to make it blank again.

The one I bought was made for black shirts, which includes a nice opaque white. If needed you can print-dry-print again for a nicer white if the first one is too thin. I paid about $90. Make sure it has the photo transfer emulsion or you can buy that separately for refills. The kit came with everything (screen, squeegee, paint, etc.)

If your students get good at it, you could do 1 or 2 color shirts on your own, too. Very DIY.
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