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Westar Designs Limited and Nellex Rentals Limited are owned, managed and run by the same family, the family business has been providing Trinidad & Tobago with quality services and solutions form many years in both the realm of printing and design as well as car rentals and servicing.

Over the years through experience we have been increasinly improving our capabilities to help better serve our customers with the quality service that they deserve.

Offset Printing
Digital Printing
Screen Printing
Embroidery
Signs (Inc. Light signs)
Pad Printing
Promotional item printing

Screen Printing - T-Shirts, Workwear, Diaries, Mugs, Pens, etc The best way of printing onto most cotton clothing is screen printing. Screen printing is ideal for large designs and is Westar’s technique of choice for not only t-shirt printing, but for caps, diaries and pens as well, simply because of the quality it produces.

The Screen Printing Process
Screens are made by putting a chemical emulsion on a mesh surface. Vector artwork is taken from Adobe Illustrator or Freehand and printed out on a film type paper or vellum. The screen is then exposed on a light table with the artwork under it. The light solidifies the chemicals around the design, and where the light failed to pass through, the chemical breaks down. The screen is then rinsed out and what is left is the area where the light hit.

The shirt is placed on a platen and each screen swings around over the top of the shirt. The screen is then brought down and placed on top of the shirt. A squeegee is then pulled over that screen’s ink colour which pushes the ink onto the shirt fabric. That screen is then lifted, carefully off of the shirt (If the shirt moves or is stretched, the next colour will be out of registration). The platen with the shirt is then moved under a flash unit where it dries. Upon curing, the shirt platen is brought back and the next colour screen is swung over the top of it.

When screen printing, one colour at a time is applied and therefore the cost will increase with each additional colour applied. Likewise a separate screen is required for each colour, and hence, screen charges may be uneconomical if only a small quantity of clothing is required.

Screen printed garments wash well, and should not be confused with heat transfer printing which does not look as good or last so well. Many t-shirt printing shops use this cheaper method rather than screen printing.