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What is Clip Art?

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Feb/10
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Clip art for customizing Easy Prints® layout

Clip art for customizing Easy Prints® layout

Clip art is ready made art that can be used to create your custom transfers.   At Transfer Express, we offer thousands of clip art to help create your custom print ready to apply to your apparel.  

The clip art is categorized online and in the Idea Book™.   We offer general shapes, mascots, animals, occupations, and sports to name a few of the categories.  To find what you are looking for use our clip art search.  To find the best results in our search, enter the simplest part of the description you would call the clip art you are looking for.  Example: Search for “glasses” instead of sun “glasses” or “bee” instead of “bumble bee”.

Our clip art can be added to an Easy Prints® layout, with text or used alone.  It can ordered in just one color or as many colors as you like.  If using just one color, what you see in black will be the color you select.  If you want to add colors, just let us know what colors are needed and where they should be placed.  To order clip art alone – use the layout QAL-CLIP when ordering online.

With thousands of clip art choices, any layout can be made custom for your specific need.  The choices are endless….

Don’t forget about selling those St. Patrick’s Day shirts. We have shamrock clip art too!

What is Clip Art?

Ink Formula Focus: Hot Split Screen Printed Transfers

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Dec/09
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QAL-262 - Burgundy & White

The Hot Split ink formula has been around since the start of Transfer Express and has grown to a very popular formula used by many of our dealers. It’s our softest feel and lightest transfer when applied to apparel so you can see why it is used by so many.

To get down to the characteristics of the ink formula itself, a Hot Split transfer is screen printed using plastisol ink. Just like it’s counterpart Goof Proof® it is literally screen printed onto a release paper that allows it to peel “like butter” when applied with a heat press. It “splits” from the paper when peeled “hot”. Hence the name! It’s a simple product, (ink on paper) but it packs a punch in its qualities.

  • Soft feel (even with more solid filled design areas!)
  • Lightweight
  • Great for thinner fabrics such as burnout tees
  • Anywhere color placement
  • Best for cotton/polyester blended fabrics
  • So try out a sample of Hot Split if you haven’t already and see why we call it our softest feel transfer.

    Ink Formula Focus: Hot Split Screen Printed Transfers

    Ordering Clip Art Only Custom Transfers

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    Oct/09
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    Occasionally, your customer may need a transfer print with artwork only and no text.  Any of our over 3000 clip art can be ordered this way in whatever size and color or colors are needed.  We have clip art categories of animals, arts, holidays, occupations, religious, sports, structures, symbols and transportation.  We have subcategories for each of these to further help you find the needed clip art.  If you know exactly what you are looking for, search for it by keyword.

    To order, call and let us know the clip art number, the size you would like, the colors and quantity.  For ordering online, you can use the layout QAL-CLIP!

    X2B-29 Cardinal Clip Art

    X2B-29 Cardinal Clip Art Custom Screen Printed Shirt

    Ordering Clip Art Only Custom Transfers

    Save Money on Custom Transfers with “Color Changes”

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    Sep/09
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    When you place your next order for custom screen printed transfers give your customers the option of receiving their design on a light or dark shirt by utilizing a Color Change. A color change allows you to order the exact same design in different colors without being charged for 2 separate orders at low price breaks. For a $15 fee per color, you can order at a higher price break and receive 2 different color transfers!

    For example, the local school wants shirts for their booster club spirit wear sale and they want the exact same design on a 15 navy shirts as on a 20 gold shirts. By utilizing the color change you’d receive the 35 piece price break with a $15 color change fee. Choose the gold ink color to be heat applied to navy shirts and navy ink color to be applied to gold shirts. 

    This color change feature can also be applied to multi-color transfers. With 50 transfers in red and white and 50 transfers in red and black, they can be heat pressed onto black and white shirts while still getting the 100 piece price break with the color change fee. Just remember the designs must be exact and whatever was white will be black.

     Ordering separate orders:
    15 Gold – $3.36/sheet = $50.40
    20 Navy – $2.75/sheet = $55
    Total order = $105.40
     
    Ordering with Color Change:
    15 Gold w/ color change to 20 Navy (35 piece price break) = $68.95 + $15 color change fee = $83.95
    You’d save $21.45!

    How to order:
    Phone – Tell your rep how many you need in each color
    Online – Add into the Notes section “I also need 20 of this Exact design in Navy” 

    Layout QAL-45

    Layout QAL-45

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    Additional prints in Navy

    Save Money on Custom Transfers with “Color Changes”

    New-Screen Printed Number Style

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    Sep/09
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    All Star 2 Color Numbers

    All Star 2 Color Numbers

    We have a new number style that gives you a 3 color look at a 2 color price.   And they apply with one easy application in just seconds!   The new style is our All Star number, now in 2 colors–Gold with White, Black with Red and Navy with Red.   The inner part of the number is a block style, then the shirt throws through and then there is the outline.   The numbers are sold in packs of 5 or economical Express Packs and Number Kits.   They are available in 4, 6, 8 and 10” sizes.

    New-Screen Printed Number Style

    Pick a Color! 58 Screen Printed Transfer Ink Colors

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    Sep/09
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    Screen Printed Ink Color Selector

    Screen Printed Ink Colors

    When ordering a screen printed transfer, you can choose from any of our 58 ink colors including glitter colors and reflective silver.   In addition, specific “color matches“, can be ordered for a small additional charge.

     But how do you know what color you need?  On TransferExpress.com, we offer an approximated color chart showing you all of the colors we carry.  Remember on-screen colors can vary between monitors so use this source only as an approximation.  When available, we list the Pantone® color number next to our screen printed ink color.   Pantone® colors are a standardized color system used by many printing companies.   If you have a Pantone® color chart, the number listed on our chart will correspond to a color in that book.   

    We also offer Color Selector of our screen printed plastisol inks.  This selector will help your customer choose exactly what color is right for them.  The Color Selector is included in our Easy Prints® Marketing Kit or can be ordered by itself.

    Pick a Color! 58 Screen Printed Transfer Ink Colors