Yes! In fact, there are about 15,000 existing printing companies in country with about 340,000 employed workers. Thus, considering its large labor force, tasks and machineries involved in a printing company, accidents are, not surprisingly, frequent occurrences. Annually, printing companies come up with a report of about 1,350 work-related accidents and major injuries like fractures and amputations are results of about 200 of these types of accidents.

According to article “Screen Printing vs. Heat Transfer” by Bruce Roberts which was posted at www.bfprinting.com, author has mentioned some pros and cons in using screen printing and heat transfer methods to produce printed apparels. The article has stated that screen printing is advisable if you are planning to do mass production of T-shirts. He has added that digital heat transfer must be considered for printing short runs because it avoids expense and extra work of preparing screens and cleaning up ink and chemicals. With financial considerations, much money is needed in screen printing than in heat transfer if you want to set up a business. The screen printing process was also explained in Roberts’ article.