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Three Easy Steps to Getting Great Custom T Shirts

Knowing
that you want cheap custom made T shirts is one thing, but knowing how you want
those personalized T shirts to look is quite another. This article will help
you generate ideas for designing the perfect custom shirt for any occasion.
Whether you are only in need of custom T shirt printing, or are brainstorming
for custom sweatshirts, this guide will help you get the most out of cheap
custom made T shirts suppliers.
The first step is to generate ideas for T shirts
appropriate to their use.
  *   Commemorating An Event
If you are creating T shirts for a bachelor or
bachelorette party, or for a company team participating in a race, then your
main goal is to design a T shirt that stands out. Try to be clever. If this
shirt is for a company, then look for ways to play off of your company name,
logo, products, or services. If this shirt is for individuals, a popular but
relevant movie quote, a unique design, or even a picture of the person might be
perfect.
  *   Sports Teams
With a sports team there are special considerations, as
you want the shirts or jerseys to look as professional and uniform as possible.
There is not a great deal of room for creativity in designing a sports jersey,
so you will mostly be concerned with the use of colors, the layout of the team
name and numbers, and placement of any logos or pictures that represent your
team or mascot. To get design ideas, look at other examples and pick and choose
the elements that you like best.
  *   Simple Identification
Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, school group, camps, or a
large family on vacation at an amusement park will want shirts that really
stand out. You might have custom shirts made for brand awareness, or as
uniforms for your place of business. In either case, choose a color that is
bright and easy to spot, or one that is appropriate to the company logo and
brand. Keep text to a minimum, and avoid the use of any detailed pictures or designs.
The second step is to determine who will create the
design, and how it will be translated to your cheap custom made T shirts or
sweatshirts.
If a logo, design, or picture needs to be created from
scratch, here are several ideas to help you get that accomplished.
  1.  Hold a contest.
  2.  Enlist the help of a local artist.
  3.  Hire a professional designer.
  4.  Find someone in the group or company with
artistic talents.
Online shirt design is a fairly simple process, and can
be the highlight of any online contest. Some printing companies will even
provide templates, clip art, and other tools so that even someone with modest
creative abilities can design a shirt.
The third and final step is to send your designs off to a
shirt printing service.

Your custom made shirts will likely be printed through a
screen printing process, which was first developed sometime between 960 and
1279 CE in the Song Dynasty. Mesh and ink blocks allow for logos, images, and
text to be transmitted to almost any kind of fabric. Remember these tips for
finding inspiration and creating your T shirt design, and thanks to modern
screen printing and digital technologies you will have those custom T shirts or
sweatshirts in no time at all.
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Customize Sweatpants: How to create your own customized sweatpants

Much like custom t-shirts you can customize sweatpants
easily on-line.  The first thing you will
want to consider is the type of sweatpants you are wanting.  They are generally available with our without
pockets.  The other variable on
sweatpants is the leg.  You will find an
option of an open bottom leg or one with an elastic cuff.  Then of course there is the color.  Sweat pants are available in most of your
basic colors such as red, royal blue, sport grey, black, and maroon.
Secondly you will want to find an on-line design tool that
will allow you to create your own unique sweatpant design.  You can create a design from a library of
clipart.  For text you will find a large
selection of fonts to utilize.  Fonts can
be rotated or curved to create just the look you are going for! You can also
personalize your sweatpants with names and numbers.  When designing your customized sweatpants you
will want to consider the location of the imprint.  Designs can be placed on either thigh, down
the side of the leg or across the seat of the sweatpants.
  
Now that you know how to customize sweatpants, you can place
an order
and then just sit back and wait for comfort to arrive!
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MAXIMIZING YOUR PROFIT WITH CUSTOM PRINTED T-SHIRTS

I am often approached
by owners of small business who are interested in selling custom printedt-shirts to their community but have reservations about getting stuck with a
bunch of leftover shirts.  This is quite
possible and could end up being a loss for the business owner rather than a
revenue generator.  When creating acustom t-shirt order the business owner must guess how many shirts of each size
they will sell.  If they fail on this
calculation they could end up with a lot of merchandise they cannot sell.  So, how does one avoid this pitfall?   PRESALE! 
One of our more innovative customers, Geri McNeice, owner of ARoundJoy
at the HoopShack in Arlington Tx is doing just that!  She currently has her 4thAnniversary t-shirt available to her patrons on-line, once she has collected
the order she will then pass the order to us and receive exactly the number of
custom printed t-shirts she needs.  This
allows here to maximize her profit buy getting her volume discount and not
having any screen printed shirts leftover. 
If this is successful Geri hopes to start offering a t-shirt of the
month to her community.  No matter what
your business is, preselling your custom t-shirt designs and ideas is a great
way to maximize your profit!  
   
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Custom T-Shirts are easy and economical Christmas gifts for the entire family

Custom printed t-shirts or custom made hoodies are a great
Christmas party favor and a wonderful gift!  Not only will they help make awesome family
photos they will surprise the entire family with something they can use all year.  Here are some ideas on how to get your entire
family a gift in one place for a low price!
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel when creating your
custom family t-shirt.  Look to colleges
for inspiration.  Utilizing college fonts
you can easily create a t-shirt that your family will wear proudly. 
Take utilizing fonts a step further and create t-shirts
using word art.  Play with various fonts
and create a t-shirt using all the names in your family!  You can use different fonts and font sizes to
design an eye catching customized shirt. 
By adjusting the rotation and curves of your text you can
create fun images such as a “family tree” or your state!
An easy to use on-line resource for this is http://www.wordle.net/.  You can easily create your image here and
then upload them to your custom t-shirt or custom hoodie design.
If you not the “designer” of the family but still want to
wow them with a cool unique gift feel free to contact us about utilizing our
economical and professional creative staff.

Whichever you choose you are sure to please the entire family! 

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Custom T-Shirts for Small Businesses

Everyone knows that many small businesses don’t have deep
pockets.  But keeping staff looking clean
and professional is not the best place to cut corners.  Custom printed shirts offer many benefits to
small businesses.


T-shirts with logos conveys to your customers who the
employees are.  This is especially
important if your business is one that services the customer in their
home.  Nobody wants an unidentified
person at their door!  A screen printed
logo on the chest will put your customers mind at ease. 

Businesses that print their company name and information on
the back of t-shirts get the added benefit of their staff being walking billboards.
Most people wear their work clothes to and from work giving the employer the
perk of advertising while their staffers are at lunch or out running errands.

Custom printed apparel can also add an element of safety by
making employees who work in dangerous areas more visible.   Safety Green and Safety Orange t-shirts are
favorites among small business like general contractors and landscapers. 

Products like custom printed T-shirts and screen printed polos are the best solution to keep your uniform costs in check.  
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Gildan T-Shirts are a GREAT Option for Screen Printing

The Gildan Ultra Cotton T-Shirt is a favorite with those how
like to design their own t-shirts.  Not
only does Gildan offer a high quality t-shirt at an affordable price they are an
industry leader when it comes to color. 
Each year t-shirt lovers can look forward to a new pallet of colors to
utilize for their custom t-shirts. 
This past year Gildan added 28 new colors to their already
vast color pallet.  They looked to
nature, pop culture, and vital research to determine what screen printed
t-shirt consumers want.  They added
several antiqued and heather dyed shirts which have become very popular with
the younger market.  Colors like Coral
and Berry were some vibrant colors inspired by nature and will provide an
excellent pallet for many custom t-shirt designs.  The medical industry has been grateful for
the addition of Ciel Blue and Scrub Green. 
These are standards in the medical industry and work as a great back
ground to screen print company logos on.

As 2013 winds down we can soon look forward to a new pallet
of colors that will enhance the consumer’s ability to create custom t-shirts
that will be perfect for any occasion.  
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Three Great Ideas For Fundraiser Shirts!

If you’ve never
considered the benefits of cheap custom shirts, then you should know that the
Printers National Environmental Assistance Center stated that “screen
printing is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes.” Screen
printing is a technique that uses a woven mesh, stretched to fit over a frame,
to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive an image. The printed surface is
often referred to as the pallet, and pallet tape is used to secure it. It’s
essentially the process of using the stencil to apply ink on to a material to
create cheap custom shirts, posters, stickers, vinyls, wooden items or other
materials.
Screen printed clothes,
like cheap custom shirts or custom sweatshirts, make easy, simple uniforms that
are great to let customers identify a business’s employees. These cheap custom
shirts are great not only for employees, but also for sports teams and
fundraisers. If you’re going to create custom design t-shirts for a fundraiser,
here’s a few great shirt printing design ideas!

“Keep Calm &
(Blank)”
The “Keep Calm
& Carry On” were morale boosters used by the British government in
1939 before the Second World War, and have come back into vogue lately. Many TV
shows, movies, and businesses have appropriated the slogan to help promote
themselves, so why not have cheap custom shirts with the phrase to help raise
money for your own fundraiser?

“(Active Verb) for
(Cause)”
It’s a simple formula
that effectively delivers a clear message. Many different, popular campaigns
put this to use. For example, “Walk For Cancer” could be used for a
walkathon that helps raise money for cancer awareness. Whatever your
fundraising event is, it can be boiled down to one, simple, active verb.

“Team (Blank)”
People enjoy pop culture
references, especially when they’re on cheap custom shirts. The “Team
(Blank)” spread after the fans of Twilight used it to identify
who their favorite character was. It has since been appropriated to show
support of other people and causes. One recent shirt that put this design to
use was “Team Snowden” to show support over the NSA controversy.
If you have any questions
about how to create custom t shirts cheap, or other fundraiser ideas, feel free
to ask in the comments!
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Custom Printed T-Shirts on a Budget

Often we find that many design custom t-shirts only to find that it won’t be cost effective for their budget. Here are a few tips that will help you make your own t shirt in the most cost effective manner possible. 


Tip #1. Order your custom tee shirts in large volumes when possible. Printing custom t-shirts is like printing business cards, newspapers, or any variety of items, the cost is in the set up. As such, the higher the quantity of custom apparel ordered the lower the cost per unit becomes.

Tip #2. Look for a cotton mix product vs 100% cotton. The product chosen plays a factor in the price of custom apparel. Name brands, type of fabric and specialty items will drive the price up. Changing a product from a 100% cotton ringer tee to a50-50 white tee will dramatically bring the cost down.

Tip #3. Be flexible on the colors of your custom tee shirts. Color of your custom t shirt also enters into the mix. Because color shirts require extra steps in the printing process you will find that it is less expensive to print custom t-shirts on white rather than color.

Tip #4. Be aware, the more elaborate and more locations of the t-shirt design, the higher the cost. When you make your own t shirt, your t-shirt design plays a big factor in the cost. How many colors and where you want it printed will determine how much you pay. Basically, the more colors and the more areas you print, on your custom t shirt the higher the cost. When you make your own t shirt the best rule of thumb for a cost effective custom t shirt is, one color and one side.

Tip #5. Stick with sizes less than XL Lastly, size plays a factor. You will find that custom tee shirts sizes above XL cost a bit more. Unfortunately the only thing one can do to change that is hit the gym!

Have a great day and remember when you make your own t shirt, Price = Quantity + Product + Color + Design + Size.

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How to Design a Custom T-Shirt Using Adobe Ilustrator

This YouTuber put together an outstanding custom t-shirt video.  This video explains how to create a custom t-shirt using Adobe Illustrator.  She demonstrates how to create your custom t-shirt idea and prepare it for a screen printer.  One may find this method of creating a custom t-shirt challenging if they have never used Illustrator.  However, if you want to experiment Adobe does offer a 30 day free trial and you will find a pelthora of videos on how to use illustrator.  If you are not fluent in illustrator and do not want to experiment with this method of creating a customized t-shirt all is not lost!  TheShirtPrinter.com offers an online design lab that makes creating a custom t-shirt a snap!

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Gangham Style T-Shirt

Ehhhhhhhhh Sexy T-shirt……… Wuppa Gangham Style!  We are hoping to receive some video from the group that ordered these custom marching band t-shirts!  The group of 150 members plans to perform Gangham Style wearing these ultra sassy screen printed t-shirts.  Visit TheShirtPritner.com and go Gangham Style with your custom t-shirt design!  Need just a single shirt with this design?  Just send us an email.