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How to Decorate Soccer Uniforms

29
Jul/10
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QSO-58 on soccer uniform

QSO-58 on soccer uniform

Score this soccer season with increased soccer uniform sales.

Soccer teams will now be ordering for the fall season. We have hundreds of soccer designs your teams can choose from as well as the products to apply to these uniforms. Soccer uniforms are typically 100% polyester. All Transfer Express products will apply to this fabric.  If they are labeled “dazzle polyester”, that is just a finish and will not effect the transfer application. One thing to watch for is “sublimated” 100% polyester.  These still can be decorated with our Polytrans screen printed transfers, but you will need to order at least a 2 color print, with the dark color as the outline/background color to block the sublimated dye. For example, if you are using white ink on a red sublimated shirt, we recommend ordering white with a black outline.

Our digitally printed Cad-Printz™ are also great for soccer uniforms especially heart size crests that can be applied to almost any uniform. Cad-Printz ™ are full color so your teams can really stand out at a low cost this season.

How to Decorate Soccer Uniforms

Free Webinar-Profiting with Fall Sports

21
Jul/10
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QFB-81 with personalization added

QFB-81 with personalization added

Now is the time to start preparing for the profitable fall sport season.  Attend our free webinar on August 10 at 2:00PM EST. We will show you the popular looks for the fall football, soccer and volleyball season for both uniforms and spirit wear.  Tips will be provided on easily printing on mesh with custom transfers  and doing consecutive numbers in a clip art, easily and inexpensively.  We will also discuss how easy it is to decorate dazzle soccer jerseys.  Also learn how you can use full color Cad-Printz™ digital transfers to print nylon coach’s jackets and bags.  Click here to register for this free webinar.

Free Webinar-Profiting with Fall Sports

Customzied T-shirt Designs Now in Multi-Color Easy View™

28
May/10
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QRN-58 Family Reunion Tshirt Design

QRN-58 Family Reunion Tshirt Design

We listen to all your comments and suggestions and are proud to introduce Multi-color Easy View™! This updated version makes it easier for our dealers to present an enhanced visual to their customers while making it easy to order 2 color Easy Prints® screen printed transfers online.

By using Easy View™, our 3000+ Easy Prints® design ideas can be customized as a one color design by changing the black areas, or Primary Color, to your choice of Transfer Express stock ink colors. You can see these one color designs on your customer’s choice of shirt color also. Simply clicking to the multi-color button transforms your preview to allow you to add a Secondary Color to any areas that were previously displayed as show thru.

 Be sure to save your designs to your cart then show your customers a proof using the Printable Page option and pass on any tweeks or changes that need made in the “Notes” section of the ordering page. There may be some changes you’d like to make such as adding an outline to a line of text or altering the size of a clip art. Either way, the “Notes” are there for you to describe your changes. Keep in mind that the colors on the screen are just general representations of our ink colors. For true representations of our ink color make sure you get our Apparel Printing Color Selector that shows all our stock ink colors.

If you are just getting started and haven’t ordered from Transfer Express before, become a Dealer by placing your first order! We will set you up with a Dealer ID and Password for you to start customizing with Multi-color Easy View™.

Customzied T-shirt Designs Now in Multi-Color Easy View™

Custom Earth Day Transfers

6
Apr/10
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April 22nd marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day! Many groups, schools and organizations will be gathering to help clean up our Earth and spread the word about how important it is to keep our planet clean and healthy. Custom Earth Day t-shirts are worn by many of the groups and sold to the public to raise money to help their efforts. Since this year is an anniversary year many people will be gathering at parks, environmental fairs and rallies which is a perfect time to gain more profits or help raise money to give back to the environment.

Start with a few Easy Prints® designs and purchase organic cotton t-shirts to heat print them to with your professional heat press. Below are a few ideas to get your started. Keep in mind, during these events there are many volunteers and staff helping out. It is very easy to add a line of text or names to the back of your Earth Day t shirts with the word “VOLUNTEER” or “STAFF”.

Do your customers want to give away reusable bags for repeated trips to the grocery store? Polypropylene bags are popular for reducing the number of plastic bags in our landfills but they are very difficult to heat print on since they melt under high temperatures. Elasti Prints® screen printed transfers apply at a low temperature and are perfect for this type of application!

Earth Day T-shirt Ideas

Earth Day T-shirt Ideas

Custom Earth Day Transfers

100% or 50/50 Fabrics – Which works best for transfers?

5
Mar/10
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shirt-tagTwo of the most common types of t shirts and hooded sweatshirts customers request are 100% cotton and 50/50 cotton/polyester blends. For applying screen printed transfers though, which one works best and is there any difference in the finished product after the heat transfer is applied?  For the finished product the answer is, “No, there is no difference in the quality or durability of the finished product if using 100% or 50/50 t shirts or hoodies”.  The plastisol ink will attach itself to the fabric fibers in the same way.

Now, before the custom transfer is applied to the garment is where you may see a difference.  The difference between 100% cotton and a 50/50 is the amount of moisture  in the fabric fibers. The 100% cotton t shirt or hooded sweatshirt will hold more moisture and will need to be prepressed for a longer duration to remove the moisture. This is done before the transfer is applied.

Which screen printed ink formulas work best for the different types of fabric?

50/50 Cotton Polyester blends – Goof Proof®, Hot Split, Polytrans, as well as every other heat transfer that Transfer Express manufactures.

100% Cotton – Same as 50/50.

Recommendation:
Hot Split transfers will apply to 100% cotton however a longer prepress time is needed. All you need to do is pre-press for a few more seconds or until you do not see any more “steam” being released.

If you are unsure of which transfer type will work best for your type of fabric our Dealer Services Team is more than happy to give you suggestions.

100% or 50/50 Fabrics – Which works best for transfers?