How to Decorate Soccer Uniforms
Jul/100
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 UniformsUse Current Events for T Shirt Profits
Jun/100
Custom art
In the news recently, there have been many stories that have stayed on the front headlines for weeks which should mean dollar signs to t shirt business owners. In Cleveland and many other cities the front page headlines of sports pages for the past few months have speculated on the decision Lebron James faces about leaving the Cleveland basketball scene. If a story such as this has been in the headlines consistently over a period of time, there’s opportunity for t shirts to sell. Try to think outside of the box when designing a t shirt that relates to a current event. Simple lines of text such as “LBJ STAY” sell quickly!
The recent disaster in the Gulf has been the BP oil spill which will be on the minds of Americans for months and years to come. T shirt shops are already starting to profit off of funny t shirts that protest and raise awareness about the issue. Because of the cultural relevance witty sayings gain attention and appeal to today’s shoppers.
Using custom transfers allow you to be creative and offer designs that can be applied to different types of t shirts and sweatshirts of any size and color without sitting on inventory. Since these designs may not have been ordered by a group, you can store the transfer sheets until someone buys. Keep a few sizes in different colors and styles on hand for when customers come to you and make their decision. In just 4 seconds of application time, the screen printed transfer and be heat applied to the shirt!
Use Current Events for T Shirt ProfitsPuff Screen Printed Transfers
Apr/100
Add a dimension to your printing with our new Puff transfers. Puff transfers are available in white or black puff, but these colors can be combined with our regular screen printed inks to really make your design stand out. The Puff screen printed transfers work best on bold designs since the enlarging of the ink closes up detailed designs. Puff also works best on fashion items rather than athletic wear that is wash and worn weekly. Use Puff with our Easy Prints® tshirt design ideas or send us your artwork.
Easy Prints® Layout CP-23 Kelly with White Puff
Puff enlarged view
Best Custom Transfer Ink Color for the Job
Apr/100
Plastisol Ink Colors
No, Shakespeare wasn’t really talking about custom transfer ink colors with the quote “A rose by any other name, would smell just as sweet’ but it does apply. Too often, it is easy to get caught up in the name of a color when what really matter is the color itself.
For example, if you want a bright pink color to be put on a black shirt, you may be drawn to the neon pink when our bubblegum pink would actually be a much brighter pink for the job.
Other colors that work better on dark colored shirts are yellow instead of neon yellow, orange instead of neon orange, mid blue instead of neon blue and celery instead of neon green. The colors with the neon name are very bright on white shirts or when a white outline is added to put on dark shirts, but alone are not the best choice.
Another color names that can be confusing is cardinal or scarlet—is a stop sign red needed (our red) or a light maroon (our burgundy) and khaki—is beige, natural or cream what you really need.
So how do you know? All of our colors that have a corresponding pantone match are listed with this number. So if you have a Pantone chart the chart can be used. An even more useful tool is our ink color selector. This is a “paint strip” like chart showing all of the actual colors so the name really won’t matter at all.
Best Custom Transfer Ink Color for the JobWhat is Clip Art?
Feb/100
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
Dec/090
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.
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 TransfersOrdering Clip Art Only Custom Transfers
Oct/090
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 Custom Screen Printed Shirt
Save Money on Custom Transfers with “Color Changes”
Sep/090
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
Additional prints in Navy
New-Screen Printed Number Style
Sep/090
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 StylePick a Color! 58 Screen Printed Transfer Ink Colors
Sep/090
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
