Marketing With Custom T-Shirts
Another disadvantage is that if they a not washed properly, the image can fade. The easiest way to avoid this is to turn the T-Shirt inside out and wash the T-Shirt in cold water with a mild detergent, no bleach or bleach additives or fabric softener. Then hang the T-Shirt to dry.
Another method is Direct To Garment (DTG) printing. This is a method of running the actual shirt through a printer which prints the image on to the shirt just as a standard in home ink jet printer would print out a document from your computer. There has been some talk in the design community of the ink drying or clumping up in these machines, but I have seen the work they do and it looks great and feels great on the shirt. This is a higher end option at this time with some printers going for around $25,000. You could get a used on for around $16,000, but it would take a lot of shirts to pay off that large of an investment.
Designs at actual size: It is quite common that the designer and printer's vision of the design do not match up to their expectations. Thus it is advised that the artwork should be made in its actual original size. In such situations, it is advisable to get an estimate of the size by using a long scale and a plain T shirt. Just pick up a long scale and give the printer an estimate of the artwork you plan to have.
Once you get the hang of production, you can start marketing your services. Custom t-shirts can hold their own both in the online and the offline market. Online, simply post good quality photos of the shirts and post them on social networking sites to lead people back to your website. Offline, you can sell the creative shirts to your friends and acquaintances.
When you are expecting there are people who love to touch the bundle of joy in your stomach. For many mothers this is annoying. Would you want to touch my tummy if it was empty? Just check out some of the whacky quotes or slogans to print and buy t-shirts online to ward off prying eyes and hands!
The heat transfer method or digital custom t-shirt printing is also advantageous because it can transfer images in full color. Since the printers are inkjet or laser printers, you can use a full color design or designs with as many colors as you want. Then the shirts will be printed with exactly the same design, with all the colors captured, including all the gradient levels. While other t-shirt printing methods only allow you to print in solid colors, t-shirt printing through heat transfer allows you to do color blending and be as creative as you can be.
To make sure that the images you source on the Internet are big enough to fill your T-shirt design, on the Google Images search results page click '+' next to 'Show Options' at the top left hand side below the Google Logo. This opens a menu of filtering options on the left, choose 'Large' in the size section. Now Google will only show you the large images.
