Custom Banners for Your Sport’s Teams
Apr/120
You have decorated their uniforms, did the spirit wear and ordered stickers for the team’s helmets. One last item most teams will need is a banner to hang on game day at the field.
This is a great last add-on sale. Some ideas to put on the team banner are the team name with team logo, the team photo, a team roster, and a thank you to the sponsors with their names/and or logos.
A banner listed with the team roster and sponsors.
You can create the art and send it to us, or use one of our banner layouts. A good size for these banners is 3 feet x 5 feet which will cost you about $30 and can easily be sold for $50. While doing research, we found them promoted for as much as $80!
The banners are printed in full color, so photographs are perfect to put on the banner. They are printed on durable 13 oz vinyl, and UV protected so they won’t fade in sunlight. Each banner includes 4 easy to use banner tabs to position on the banner based on where you will be hanging it. The banner is shipped in a durable tube that is perfect for your team’s storage to take it from game to game.
A banner featuring the team photo.
How to Sell Helmet Stickers and Decals to Your Spring Sports Teams
Mar/120
Your customer ordered his uniforms; you have packaged them up and are ready to deliver. Don’t forget other sales that can add to your bottom line.
All of your baseball and lacrosse teams wear helmets. Suggest they personalize each helmet to make it easy for each player to find their own. The Decal Packs are the perfect add-on. Printed on a sheet for each player, and packaged for retail sale with your company information at the top, the sheet includes a set of numbers as well as room for a logo to personalize the player’s helmet. Each player will be able to put the team logo on the front of their helmet and a number on the back. You can get a pack of 12 for just $2.21/player. Order a few extras to sell to the parents for scrapbooks and other fun team projects.
Personalize each player's helmet using custom helmet stickers. Use our Easy Prints® layouts or your own artwork.
Window clings and decals are also popular for the player’s car window. You can get enough for the entire team for just $25 and what parent is not proud to display his athlete is a part of that team.
Another popular trend is the reward stickers. Small baseballs (or other items) are ordered to put on the player’s helmet after a successful game. These are very inexpensive and you can order enough for an entire season for just $25.
Winning Future Orders by Packaging Your League Order
Mar/120
You’ve won the league bid but had to accept a lower profit margin than you normally make. Leagues are typically a lot of work with low profits, but you can win future orders with higher profit margins with creative packaging.
The key to success is to package each player’s uniform. Not only does this give you the chance to impress the league director, typically a volunteer, who will be sure to come back to you next year, but you can also use this opportunity as free advertising (with just a little extra sweat investment).
On the insert that identifies the player whose uniform is enclosed, include a flyer advertising what you can do for upcoming summer events. Include family reunions, corporate outings, fundraising walks and festivals. Show some examples of what you have done in the past or use our flyer documents and Easy View™ to personalize even further. When the player’s parent needs an order, they will remember you as the place to go.
For the outside of each package, order stickers to identify your company as the company that delivered to the order. To further personalize, order them for the league order specifically, such as Good Luck Mayfair Youth League from Pro Sport Performance. Stickers are inexpensive and can be ordered at the same time as your team logos.
Package each uniform of a league order individually and include a flyer in each package.
Vector vs Raster Art: Which is Best for Transfers?
Jun/110
Vector vs Raster Art:
There are basically two different types of art – vector and raster (bitmap/jpg). Both are useful depending on your end use.
Raster art is made up of tiny boxes known as pixels. An example of a raster image is a digital photograph. Typically, rasterized files end with file extensions such as .jpg, .tif, .bmp, .gif, and .png. One of the most common mistakes made with raster art has to do with scaling (sizing) a rasterized image larger. Since raster art is resolution dependent, you can scale smaller, but you shouldn’t scale larger. This is because there are only so many pixels in the image. Raster images are measured by their dpi (dots per [linear] inch). A crisp, high resolution image will be around 300 pixels per inch. When scaling larger, the same amount of pixels remain, but over a larger area. Therefore, if you scale a high resolution (300 dpi) photo twice the size, you now only have 150 pixels per inch, which is half the resolution previously. When scaling larger, the pixels per inch decreases, which in turn makes the resolution decrease. This creates the distorted and pixilated look.
When zoomed in on raster artwork, you can see the pixels that create the image.
Vector art, on the other hand, is not resolution dependent. You can scale it larger or smaller and it will still look the same. Vector art can be used on a golf ball or the same art can be used on a billboard and either one will look clear. This type of art uses mathematical formulas to create the artwork. There are no pixels involved. Instead, it uses points and curves to create shapes. This type of artwork is created in applications such as CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator, which can have file extensions such as .cdr, .ai, and .eps.
When zoomed in on vector artwork, lines and curves are smooth.
How does this all fit in to our transfers?
Rasterized artwork is fine for our CAD-PRINTZ™ digital transfers as long as it is high resolution at full size (300 dpi or higher). Also for our digital transfers, vector artwork is perfectly acceptable as well.
If you are interested in our screen printed transfers, the printing process differs some. In this case, you can send us raster artwork, however, it will only be used as a guide from which the artwork will be recreated. Vector art is preferred for screen printing.
How to Prep Your Own Artwork for CAD-PRINTZ Printing
May/110
RGB Vs. CMYK Color Mode:
We make it easy for our customers by providing all the artwork you could ever imagine with Easy Prints® layouts and clipart, which the selection continues to grow each year. However, sometimes your customers provide their own artwork or maybe you have come up with some very nice artwork yourself. In these cases, one of the most common questions that re-occur has to do with the color mode of the artwork files. The color mode of your artwork file is basically the colors that your artwork is rendered in its end use. To determine which color mode you want, you must know your end use for the artwork. There are various color modes, while RGB and CMYK are the most common.
RGB (standing for Red, Green, Blue) is a color mode used by computer monitors, televisions, and any sort of electronic screen. All of the colors you see on the screen are actually made up of various combinations of tiny red, green and blue “boxes” known as pixels. This is also the color mode used by all internet graphics. If you are making any artwork for the web or any other project that will be viewed on a monitor, you would want to use RGB as the color mode.
However, RGB is not a color mode meant for printing. CMYK (standing for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)) is the other main color mode which is meant for printing. By combining different percentages of the ink colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, a wide variety of other colors are created. This is the method used by your ink jet printer at home all the way to commercial printing presses. CMYK is also known as “full color”, “4-color” or “process color” printing. We use CMYK as the color mode to print all of our CAD-PRINTZ™. This includes all of the digital transfers, wall graphics, banners, stickers and window clings. If you try to print artwork that is RGB using CMYK, the colors will not be consistent and will most likely be very different from how they appear on your computer screen. Therefore, if you are sending us artwork for any CAD-PRINTZ™ product, we need the color mode in CMYK.
Changing the color mode of your artwork file depends on the computer application you are using. Please check your users guide for your particular application that you are using for details.
RGB and CMYK Color Model
Custom Stickers-Beyond Just Helmets
Apr/110
Our custom printed stickers are great for all types of sports helmets. The stickers are printed on a thin vinyl and are durable, water and fade resistant making them perfect for many other uses. Here are some suggestions for additional sales:
- Water Bottles – dishwasher safe, great add on sale for sports teams!
- Mugs and Glassware – great for prom, party and wedding favors
- Hang Tags – advertise your own business easily
- Scrapbooks – for both covers and put packs together as an add on sale
- Notebooks – Sell to your school’s bookstore
- Skateboards and Bikes
- Phones/IPod/MP3 Players/Laptop – perfect for schools and teams
Custom stickers are great for helmets... plus much more!
Stickers are great for teams' water bottles too!
Students put custom stickers on school supplies such as this binder
Custom Stickers can be cut for electronic devices such as this Apple iPod
Skateboards and other extreme sports are popular places for stickers too!
Helmet Stickers Are A Great Add On Sale
Mar/110
Whatever the sport—we have the helmet stickers to decorate and number the team. Our stickers apply easily to baseball, lacrosse, bike or football helmets and are full color! You can send us your own art to create a custom helmet sticker or use our Easy Prints® ideas and clip art—just let us know the colors and the size! The stickers are durable, water and fade resistant for outdoor wear. If you have placed an order for your customer’s uniform, we can reduce the logo for the helmet also. Stickers can be purchased as individual logos, in number/decal packs or numbers only.
The Number/Decal Packs are perfect for handing out to the team to personalize each helmet. Each pack has a 4” x 4” space for a logo (you can do one large, two small or even multiple reward stickers), and 13, 1.6” numbers—the perfect size for the back of a helmet. In addition, each pack has space for a store name/address or motivational message for the team. For example, on each pack you can put “MVP Sporting Goods wishes the Mentor Cardinals the best of luck this season”, or just your company name and address so the team knows who to call when they need more stickers.
Helmet Sticker using Easy Prints® Clip ArtHelmet Decal Packs come with numbers and logos.
Helmet Decal Packs come with numbers and logos.
