Printing Home and Away Uniforms – A Color Change Makes Them Easy
Apr/120
Many teams, especially travel teams, have two sets of jerseys, a home and away version. Printing these uniforms are very cost efficient with the use of a color change. A color change is a process where part way through the screen printing process; we stop and change the ink color in the screen. By doing this we are able to pass on the cost savings of the larger run with a small fee added to the cost for the screen color change.
For example, for a team with 18 players ordering a home and away uniform, you get the price break of 36.
An inexpensive way to print home and away jerseys is to use a color change.
To place your order by phone, just let the customer service rep know how many of each color is needed, and what color is to be changed. If you are ordering online, place your first color version as normal, then in notes add how many of the different color is needed.
Don't forget to include a color change on the backs!
Ordering Sponsor Names for Baseball Leagues
Feb/120
Your local baseball league just called and asked you to quote their league order. You are excited for the opportunity and really want to win the bid, but where do you start? It seems easy; they just want t-shirts with a sponsor name on the front and a number on the back.
So where do you start?
1. Find out if they would like a specific height for the text needed.
2. Find out how many teams and what color ink is needed for each team.
3. Find out how many players on each team.
Now you organize!
First, divide the teams by ink color. Let’s say that 8 teams get white ink and 8 teams get black ink. Your customer told you they want the sponsor names 1.5” tall. We have created sponsor layouts that make filling these orders easy and very cost effective. Since they have chosen 1.5” tall as the letter height, you will want to use QSP-2 for ordering. You can see that there are 8 lines that fit on one order. So, start filling the slots with your sponsor names needing white ink.
Line 1 MARY’S ICE CREAM
Line 2 JONES LEGAL SERVICE
Line 3 MARIO’S PIZZA
Line 4 JOHNSON DELI
Line 5 ABC SPORTING GOODS
Line 6 MEDIC DRUG STORE
Line 7 HENRY’S BURGERS
Line 8 SUE’S CUPCAKES
Sponsor layouts are a great way to easily organize a league order.
How many should you order?
Three of the teams have 12 players and the other five have 15, so you will be ordering 15 sheets of the order you created above. So, your order would be for 15 sheets @ $3.58/sheet=$53.70 to put sponsor names on 8 teams, 111 players. That is just .48 per player! And your order ships the same day when ordered by 11 am EST so not only can you give your league a great price but also great service.
Number Ordering
The number order is just as easy. Use our online number calculator. Enter 3 teams with number 1-12 and 5 teams 1-15. Using a 6” number, the cost is just .25 per digit so with a sponsor on the front and a number on the back, your printing cost is just 73 cents!
New Custom Transfer Designs and Colors
Jan/120
Here are five more of the new Great Dane Design layouts available for your customer’s ordering. We now have revealed 10 of these trendy new designs. Voting begins January 18th for your favorite. Three voters will be chosen to win a $50 coupon for your own custom order!
This week we show you layouts from the swimming, wrestling, basketball, volleyball and cheerleading sections. All sections are customizable. By just changing the text and clip art the swimming layout is transformed to a race print, the wrestling transforms to a ballerina print, the basketball to a baseball print, the volleyball to a cheerleading and the cheerleading to a landscaping. You can see with just a little creativity you can meet any customer’s needs.
Use a new layout with one of our new colors. The new colors are soft pink, powder blue, khaki, pistachio, watermelon and violet. We also added to our popular Pearl Prints™, which are a soft metallic look. Pearl Prints are now available in gold, copper, blue, green, purple, and now pink!
New Swimming Layout QSW-47
New Wrestling Layout QWR-59
New Basketball Layout QBK-181
New Volleyball Layout QVL-99
New Cheerleading Layout QCH-134
First Sneak Peek of Great Dane Designs To Create Your Custom Transfers
Jan/120
Here are the first five designs of the new Easy Prints® customizable layout collection from Great Dane Graphics. These are now orderable and can be customized for your needs using Easy View™, our free design tool for all Transfer Express dealers.
The first five designs include a layout from our recreation, mascot, religion, all star and basketball sections. But the section is just a starting point and the layout can be customized to fit your specific needs. If you love the look of the basketball layout but want it for your baseball team—just change the basketball player to a baseball player and the text to fit your needs.
Get creative with colors too! You can show your customer the same design in 1 color or 2 colors but more can be added – just put what other colors are needed and the color placement in notes and our design team will make it happen.
These five designs will be five of the choices for the ‘vote for your favorite design’ on January 18th. Three lucky voters will win $50 towards their own order.
New Recreation Layout QMS-113
New All Star Layout QAS-113
New Mascots Layout MAS-141
New Religion Layout QRE-70
New Basketball Layout QBK-180
Custom Transfers with Bling – Metallic, Glitter or Foil?
Aug/110
Is your customer looking to brighten the look of their printed apparel? If so, there are three different custom transfer options available.
The most durable and least expensive is our Goof Proof® in metallic silver ink. Plastisol, screen printed metallic ink transfers do have flecks of metal for some sparkle, but it is the most subtle “bling” of the three. It is the best choice for athletic or school items that need to be durable for constant wear.
The second option is glitter. This has a lot of shine and is probably preferred by females. It is still very durable since it is a screen printed ink. Cheer and dance teams seem to love the glitter as it meets both needs – it adds sparkle and is still durable.
The third option is foil. This is actually a 2 step process as you need both a transfer and the foil product to put over it. This is the look desirable for fashion items and is great because you can choose to foil just a portion of the print giving a 2 texture look at just a 1 color price. However, this is the least durable of the three but by using it with the metallic silver ink, in time if the foil does flake off, you still have a very durable metallic silver print on the shirt.
Metallic ink, glitter ink and heat transfer foil options for when you want to add bling to your screen printed apparel
Tips for Screen Printing Custom Artwork: Tip 5 – Color Placement
Aug/110
When creating custom artwork for screen printed transfers, color placement is important. The screen printing process uses spot colors. You can use spot colors when creating art, but it is not required. However, you should use consistent colors in your file.
Here are some guidelines for color placement in your custom art:
- It doesn’t matter if you use a spot color, a CMYK value, or an RGB value as long as it is the same throughout. So if you use CMYK values, use CMYK throughout your whole file.
- Use the same color to represent each color in your design. For example, if you have a blue area, use the same blue for all those blue areas.
- If it helps to add a background color to match the apparel color, go ahead and try that. This helps if you are using a white ink as one of your colors and want to distinguish the ink from the background or show-thru areas.
All CMYK colors were used in this artwork with a gold background used for apparel representation only.
Colors appear differently on different computer monitors. If you would like a more accurate idea of how your colors will look when printed, use one of our Color Selectors that are part of our marketing kit or available separately.
A good spot color palette to use in Adobe Illustrator® and CorelDraw® is the “Pantone® solid coated” palette that comes with the software.
We Can Print Custom Transfers in Any Color!
Aug/110
A customer orders a custom printed shirt but they want the ink color to match an outfit they have—so what do you do?
Answer: No Problem! Our screen printed transfers ink colors can be mixed to match any color you desire.
We stock 63 ink colors (plastisol). But if you don’t see what you need, we can always do a color match to the desired color for a small color match fee. You can either provide us a Pantone® color (Pantone® is a standardized system for colors, often called PMS or Pantone Matching System) or send us an item that you want matched.
Use Transfer Express' Easy Prints® Color Selector to choose ink colors for screen printed transfers.
If you want to see what colors we stock, we offer an approximated online color chart (there is some variance due to the variance in colors on computer monitors), a list of the Pantone corresponding numbers that can be used if you own a Pantone chart, or a color selector specific to Transfer Express can be ordered.
New 6”-2 Color Screen Printed Transfer Numbers
Jul/110
We now have a complete line-up of two color 6” screen printed numbers (plastisol), perfect for youth leagues! These two color numbers apply in one, easy 4 second application with a heat press. These transfer numbers are available in our best selling Champ style, a varsity, athletic full block number style. The numbers are sold as low as just 31¢ per digit making them very economical. They can be purchased in packages of five, team oriented Express Packs (60 digits), or best value league size Number Kits (315 Digits). Order today before 3:00 pm eastern and they ship the same day!
New color combination for 2 Color 6" Champ screen printed transfer numbers
List of color combinations:
- Black/White
- Black/Gold
- Black/Red
- Black/Orange
- Black/Grey
- Black/Vegas Gold
- White/Gold
- White/Black
- White/Red
- Burgundy/Vegas Gold
- Dk. Green/White
- Dk. Green/Gold
- Dk. Green/Orange
- Dk. Green/Grey
- Dk. Brown/Orange
- Gold/White
- Grey/White
- Kelly/White
- Maroon/White
- Maroon/Gold
- Navy/White
- Orange/White
- Purple/White
- Purple/Gold
- Purple/Orange
- Red/White
- Red/Black
- Red/Gold
- Red/Grey
- Red/Navy
- Royal/White
- Royal/Gold
- Royal/Orange
- Royal/Red
- Navy/Orange
- Navy/Red
- Navy/Grey
- Navy/Gold
- Navy/Vegas Gold
- Navy/Columbia Blue
- Vegas Gold/White
What do you need to print custom T-shirts and apparel?
Jun/117
We are in the planning stages for the 2012 custom transfer Idea Book™ and offerings and need your feedback. We want to help you to continue to have success selling custom apparel.
Is there clip art, colors, or a layout category you think we are missing?
Would you want additional number styles or colors?
Any problem applications we can help you solve?
Just leave us a comment below and we will look into implementing it!
Give us your feedback and ideas!
Transfer Extreme and Memorial Day
May/110
Transfer Extreme Layout USA-10 America is Great
We’re a patriotic bunch, here at STAHLS’ Transfer Express. Flags are waving, banners are soaring, and Lenny Schiavone just cooked a whole bunch of hot dogs for us to kick off the Memorial Day Weekend!
Meanwhile, we’re still celebrating the launch of our latest product offering, Transfer Extreme, and its introductory collection of patriotic screen-printed transfers. Since it hit the wires on Wednesday, May 25th, each of our 10 Americana stock designs has been flying off the shelves. (Looks like we’ll have to keep printing!)
Transfer Extreme Layout USA-1
Transfer Extreme is really special to us. We enlisted the help of industry-renowned graphics expert, Dane Clement, to create trendy, edgy designs that truly display American Pride. These were screen-printed with plastisol inks using our new, innovative, simulated 4-color process printing method. This provides beautiful graphics, intricate designs, and full, vibrant colors. The image quality is comparable to direct screen-printing, digital printing, or litho. However, the finished product gives you a very soft hand (not plastic-y like those other guys), and it applies in only 4 seconds! Plus, it’s great for both light and dark fabrics; for cotton, polyester, and cotton/polyester material.
Transfer Extreme Layout USA-9
Dane created designs that are ideal for all ages, but will especially appeal to the alternative looks that teens and young adults love. Just in time for Memorial Day, they’re perfect for summertime fashion and your customers’ 4th of July Independence Day celebrations.
Transfer Extreme Layout USA-4
Please check out the designs when you have a moment, if you haven’t already. We’d love to hear your feedback about them at info@transferexpress.com. Tell us how you like and how you’re using them, or if you have any special stories such as from a U.S. Veteran. Also, please share with us what designs you’d like to see us produce for you in the future!
In the meantime, I hope your family, like mine, will be struttin’ their stuff this Memorial Day Weekend wearing Transfer Extreme designs!
Transfer Extreme Layout USA-11
