All-over print.

The fabric is printed first, by the roll, and the garment is cut and sewn out of it afterwards, so the image can cross a seam and run to the hem instead of stopping at a print area. On polyester the transfer step is a calender carrying paper and fabric through a heated drum together; that machine has its own entry here and is rarely the part that goes wrong. Platforms stretch the name further. Printful also sells All-Over Cotton, printed directly onto the fabric with water-based pigment inks and then cut and sewn the same way, and pre-made sublimated items printed after sewing, where seams and folds can leave minor white streaks. On the cut-and-sew route, what goes wrong sits either side of the print. Artwork has to be laid out panel by panel against the marker, with seam allowance, shrinkage and pattern direction settled before anything is printed, and the cutting room needs its own consumables, the marking paper, cutters kraft underlay, waxed kraft and separating tissue that Beaver Paper sells as a cut-and-sew line. There is no single-garment reprint in this process: a colour shift or a mismatched panel is found at the sewing machine, by which point the yardage, the cutting labour and the machine time are already spent.