The kind of printing we do in-house is called direct-to-garment or DTG printing. It's a very sophisticated inkjet printer specifically designed to print onto fabric.
Unlike screen-printing, which applies one color at a time and can opaque, DTG printing can print millions of colors in one pass. The sprayed on ink is influenced by the fabric color. As you can see in the photos above, the graphic looks different on the tan-green fabric than it does on the textured gray shirt. The graphic has not changed; the shirt color has.
In DTG printing, the white in your graphic prints transparent, letting the color of the fabric show through. On a white shirt, the skateboarder in the graphic would appear white as would the lettering for "Lebanon Skate Park." You can see this effect in the top photo.
Once you understand this principle, you can design for how your graphic will print on color. We can print out a standard color chart on a colored fabric to see if we want to keep colors as they are or change them to a different hue.
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