pic: Rookie Team 4525 t-shirt design!!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Just thought I'd bring this back up. It's a valid concern that should be looked into before going to the printer.

I thought I'd run the design by my brother, a professional graphic designer who's designed some of 57's coolest shirts. His comments:

The only tough part is the lost in space robot. There's so many ultra fine lines around the "neck" that I think they'd just bleed together.

The thing about black shirts is that it takes 2 at least one pass of white ink underneath everything so the color doesn't come out dull. Like a base coat. In terms of everything else, a good print shop is staffed by professionals, they'll make anything look good and even make recommendations to guarantee a good outcome, but superfine lines that are really close together might get lost just from the ink absorbing into the fabric (or a shifty screen printer would just print it bad and blame it on the designer). I'd just take the neck area and make it a solid shape.
My best advice is to take a full size printout to the print shop and ask, "Will this work? Will this be hard to pull off? What can I do to ensure as few misprints as possible?" Again, a good printer will have a conversation and provide advice, it's extremely beneficial and educational to young designers to meet and respect the people who make their designs happen, just like engineers and machinists.