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Tips To Save Time and Money For Tshirt Designs
Creative Custom Tshirt Design Service
How To Save Money On Screen Printing Tshirt Designs
Placement of Tshirt Designs
All About The Process Of Screenprinting Tshirt Designs
Transfer Technology
Tips To Save Money On Transfer Tshirt Designs
We can help you overcome blank page syndrome when it comes create memorable
tshirts designs or other imprinted products' designs. The first and most
important thing to remember is to abide by the K.I.S.S. principal.
Settling on a tshirt design is not always easy. The first step towards a
great design idea is to know what you want to say. Don't forge into a design
without a clear destination in mind. Write a brief description of your
purpose and jot down a few things that will help you accomplish it.
Keep your tshirt design simple and legible. We recommend you generate ideas
for you designs by browsing magazines, online clipart libraries--even
searching the web for a keyphrase description of what you
want on your tshirt design. To browse our library of clipart for tshirt
designs click:
Clip Art Library
Printing, cutting and pasting those researched pictures, photos, and letters
will help you visualize your tshirt design. Place the elements on your computer
screen or cut and paste them on a piece of paper. You can even try each idea
with rough sketches. Use our sketch form:
Printed Tshirt Sketch Form
The tshirt design that excites you will rarely resemble your original idea. Your tshirt
design will evolve out of testing different ideas.
Employing more than 3-4 words on your tshirt design can become hard to
read. Keep in mind that height, case, and typestyle all affect legibility.
Choose Windows true type fonts and most graphics departments will be able to
match your font. If you want to view an assortment of fonts you can click
here:
Imprinting Fonts
Creative Custom Tshirt Design Service
If you want to get the most out of your next event, use our experienced tshirt graphic designers. They would be
happy to help you create that special, memorable tshirt design, sweatshirt design, banner design, etc. Settling
on a custom tshirt design is not easy. Planning the creation of the tshirt design properly, upfront, can save you
lots of time and money on your tshirt design project.
Creative Custom Tshirt Design Service
How To Save Money On Screen Printing Tshirt Designs
1. Limit the number of colors you wish to print. Fewer colors require fewer screen set-ups and less time to print
additional colors.
2. Limit the number of locations on the tshirt. Additional screen and printing charges apply if you want to add
additional locations.
3. Order white or light colored tshirts. Tshirt mills charge more for dark colors and printing on dark shirts often
require printing a white "underlay" to avoid the dark tshirt color bleeding through the design.
4. The More You Buy, The More You Save. Order in large quantities and your price per tshirt can go down dramatically.
5. Do not compromise on quality - always order 100% cotton, and purchase brand name, heavyweight tshirts.
6. Pick a company you can trust. Seek out a company that offers a wide range of custom apparel and provides both screen
printing and transfer technology tshirt services-without minimum order or set-up requirements. Look for real customer
testimonials.
7. It is always suggested that you plan ahead and consider buying 10% more tshirts than you
think you need. Our experience is that customers tend to under order as there are always
add-ons to your recipient list-- particularly after they see the tshirts. Re-ordering is not
always practical as the cost to set up a press for a small quantity may double the per unit
cost of the tshirt.
Placement of Tshirt Designs
The most popular spots to place your designs on your tshirt, of course, are
on the front, on the back or in both positions. These locations offer
full-size image areas for you to unleash your creativity.
"Staff Shirt" tshirt designs are most often placed in the "heart"
position, on the front of the tshirt in the upper left. The graphic should be
about 3-1/2 inches wide, and maximum of 4" x 4". Here placement tshirt
designs may be used alone or together with a large design on the back of the
tshirt.
Max. Front and Back Print Areas For Tshirt Designs:
Sizes
Adult 12" x 12"
Youth (Med./Lg.) 10" X 10"
Youth (Small) 8.5" X 8.5"
Left or Right chest
Team Jerseys
For rules of thumbs for names/numbers on jerseys click:
Names/Numbers FAQ
Shorts And Pants
Location(s): Left (first option) or right thigh 1-2" from top of hem
Max. Area: 4" x 4"
Sweatpants: Full Leg Max. Area: 2.5" X 14"; Vertical down side of leg
Location(s): Left (first option) or right thigh 1-2" from top of hem
Max. Area: 4" x 4"
Jackets
Location(s): Back, typically on team jackets. Maximum area is 12" x 12"
There are basically two different custom tshirt imprint options: screen
printing or heat transfer technology. Each process has its own unique
advantages.
All About The Process Of Screenprinting Tshirt Designs
Screenprinting is the best way to permanently print your artwork onto Tshirts, sweatshirts and other
apparel. Screen printing is known for crisp colors and is ideal for larger print quantities. Most designs
for tshirts and other promotional products work best as spot color designs. This means that the design is made
up of specific individual colors. The two most popular (and possibly the best) programs for creating spot color
designs, and designs that have a lot of text in them are Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW.
Process color mixes four colors of ink to create many colors, and is best only for designs that are meant to
look photographic and for long-run production items.
When we receive your artwork, it first must be separated by color and then made into film positives. We then burn
a screen for each color in your design. Drop shadows, shading and anything that blends from light to dark will probably
end up looking like a series of dots and should be avoided. (This does not apply to single-color halftone gradients).
Creating The Screen:
First we coat a screen mesh with a light-sensitive material called emulsion. Next, we create a template of your artwork
in reverse. All the empty/white areas are solid (so no light will shine through. We place this template on top of
the screen mesh, and expose it to light. Light will expose the emulsion where the template was transparent. Exposed
emulsion changes and becomes water-soluable. We then spray the screen with high pressure water, which knocks out all
the exposed emulsion. We're ready to print.
Printing The Custom Tshirt Design:
We place your tshirt on one of our presses, and align the screen on top of it. We place ink on the screen, and activate
the press, which pushes ink through the holes in the screen mesh and onto the tee shirt.
Dry the tshirt: We send the printed tshirt design through our heated dryer to set the ink. Then we carefully
examine each tshirt to make sure there were no errors. If you should ever discover an error on one of your tshirts,
just bring it back and we'll replace it.
For multiple colors of printing, we make a separate screen for each color, but the process is very similar.
How long does it last?
We guarantee our screenprinting for the life of the garment.
Colors And Resolution
What looks good on a computer screen may not look good when printed. Why? usually because of confusion about colors or
resolution. Colors on one monitor will look different than they will on another. More importantly, there is no guarantee
that a color will look the same on your monitor and in a screen print. There are steps you can take to make this easier.
First, create your artwork in CMYK mode. The normal color mode for computers, RGB, uses some extreme colors that are
impossible to print. If you need your screenprinting to match an exact color, requiring inks be custom-mixed to achieve
a PMS color then extra charges often apply.
Creating art for printing is not the same as creating art for use on computer screens! If you've created images for the
Web, you've wanted your images as small as possible for quick downloading: 72 ppi, compressed, in RGB or indexed color.
Often, these files are under a 100k. If you use one of these tiny Web images in your printed work, images will be very
pixellated or "jaggy," and the color quality will be poor. Using Web images in print will look very disappointing.
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