Can anyone help me cut a word into an image?

Question

I believe it is called merge?? I am new to illustrator and am working on learning new tricks,  I have come to a road block here.  
Here is a set up:
I have font image with a tail connected to the font,  Inside the tail i have another font that i want to weld, merge or whatever you call it so that when i remove the letters it is for say burnt into the tail so when i print it there will be no color.  ( I am screen printing t shirts)    see image for more details    basicly I want to screen print the image below in black, and keep the cafe hollow so it will take on the color of the shirt. 
Thank you in advanced

Answer 1

In the past people using Illustrator for screen printing have indicated that leaving it white did not work for them.
Really? Where? When? Show an example of this.
How may times has this very issue [white set to overprint] showed up on this form? 100? 200? 300?
Oh, puh-leeze.
So what? How many times has a question revealed that the one asking doesn't understand the even more basic principle (that white doesn't print), as evident in this thread, and which Steve correctly explained? That's  the primary misconception at issue here.
You, on the other hand, serve to reinforce the misconception that the white text must actually be a hole in the black by guiding bsward774 through a bunch of completely unnecessary steps.
This thread has nothing whatsoever to do with accidently setting white to overprint. You simply trotted that out in a transparent attempt to defend your own reply, thereby obfuscating the whole subject-- and then lit into Steve with your typical personal insults. Who do you really think you're fooling here, Wade?
And I write it again they may need to use the cut out version as they call it for other application in the future they might as well not have to think about it again.
Then by your own convoluted "logic" you yourself have committed just as egreggious a travesty by failing to explain to the "poor beginner" the risks inherent in unnecessary use of transparency masks (what you call the "simplest way"): accidental rasterization.
It is a better way when screen printing.
Okay. How so? Explain yourself.
The "simplest way" as you put it, is to simply leave the white text alone, as Steve correctly and appropriately explained.
JET