Top Design of 2012 Announced And Three Lucky Customers win $50 Off Their Order
Jan/120
Thank you to everyone who voted on our new trendy Easy Prints®, customizable layouts by our own Great Dane Graphics. Many voted, but three rose to the top as the top three layouts. They are Easy Prints layout QLW-60, QBK-180 and QSW-47. All three of these had the fashion look like you find at Abercrombie or Hollister. They are easy to make your own by just changing the text, and choosing a clip art, colors and size. If you are a current dealer, you can preview a proof on your free Easy View™, or if you are new to Transfer Express, your order can be placed by phone.
Our three lucky voters were also chosen and they are Arthur from Initial Reaction, Karla from Personal Pizazz and Leyland from String it Up. Each won $50 towards their next order! Congratulations!
Easy Prints® layout QLW-60 voted the number one design for 2012
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
New T-Shirt Designs from Great Dane Graphics for 2012
Dec/111
It’s been said many times in the decorated apparel industry that the design is what sells the shirt. Great artwork with a theme or genre that is current and popular can’t be kept on the shelves, but dated artwork that looks like the same old thing can’t be sold except as a clearance item.
For this reason, the success of any decorated apparel shop depends on offering great, cutting-edge artwork. And one of the best things about Transfer Express is that we offer a comprehensive library of new and traditional designs that gets updated and expanded all year long. No matter what graphics your customers are requesting, we will have them in some form or fashion.
We are excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Dane Clement of Great Dane Graphics and are releasing new fresh customizable designs over the next few weeks. Be on the lookout. We will be releasing a few designs at a time. Here’s a sneak preview of what you can expect.
New Layout QTS-55
Customized New Layout QTS-55
How to Use Easy View™ to Create Examples for Your Customers
May/110
Easy View™ is a great online design tool we created specifically for our dealers to create designs for tshirts and more. Using Easy View™, you can search through our thousands of layouts and you control the ink colors, text, fonts, and clipart for each and every layout you choose! Even better, you can save the customized layouts you create to your own computer. Print or e-mail these personalized layouts to show your customers to help close the sale. Having examples is always a great selling feature to help your customers visualize their designs rather than leaving it up to them to try to picture it in their minds. Not only does it help speed up the sales process with your customers, it is quick and easy to learn and use!
HOW TO DO IT:
For example, your customer, the city of Mentor, is having their annual Memorial Day Parade. Using Easy View™, we will show you how you can sell them the designs for t-shirts and more for the parade, doing it all online!
First, log into our web site using your Dealer ID and Password. After logging in, you have full access to Easy View™. By clicking on the “Idea Book Layouts” tab at the top, you can search our thousands of layouts.
At this point, you have chosen several layouts that fit the parade, and now you are ready to customize the layouts.
When we click on the thumbnail version of layout QHL-52, it automatically goes to Easy View™. We have determined that the layout is sufficient for our needs and are only going to change the Line 3 text from COMPTON to MENTOR. We are choosing to keep the same typestyle and clipart.
For our ink colors, we will show them a 2 color ink design using white as the primary ink color and royal as the secondary. These will be going on red shirts. Then, we simply click the Easy View button and our customized layout emerges in the preview window.
An Easy View™ preview of Mentor Memorial Day Parade design using layout QHL-52
Now we will save this image so we can e-mail it to our customer. For PC users, we will right-click on our customized layout and select Save Picture As (MAC users will Control + click). Save the image with a name and location on your computer of your choice.
Right-click in the Easy View™ preview window to save your customized layout on your computer
Next, open your e-mail and click to open a new message. You may type your message before or after you attach the design for the parade. When you are ready to attach, most e-mail applications show a paperclip icon for attaching documents while also displaying some sort of text title. When you have found the attachment button, click to bring up the attachment dialog box. Browse your files until you find the saved parade design image.
Using the attachment button, click on your saved parade image to attach the file in the e-mail
You may attach as many images to your message as your e-mail provider will allow space for, some more and some less.
Tip: To create records of what you sent to the customer, click the “Printable” page for each design and print a copy for your records. You can also add these designs to your cart and “Save for later” when your customer decides on the design they want for their tshirts or other apparel.
It is that easy! You are now ready to send preview images to your customers with customized designs for their needs and events! Happy Easy View™-ing!
Creating Custom T-shirt Designs for Mardi Gras!
Jan/100
Capture the essence of the Mardi Gras celebration by creating colorful garments using Easy Prints® layouts and clip arts. Within the collection of Easy Prints® layouts there are hundreds that can be transformed with colors, clip arts, and text for Mardi Gras festivals and events around the country.
Tips:
- Use fun text such as: Adelaide, Curlz, Chalk, Homeward Bound, Slam & Spirit
- Brighten up the print with colors such as Turquoise, Purple, & Metallic Gold
- Incorporate clip arts that are symbols for the festivities.
Mask – x5d-23
Beads – x17a-686
Fleur de Leis- x6l-31, x17a-729
Confetti – x17b-22
Music – saxophones, music notes, etc. (several options on page 72 of the 2010 Idea Book)
Below are several examples of what can be done to customize Easy Prints® layouts out of the Idea Book™ and online at TransferExpress.com. Once you have your design customized, call our Dealer Services Department to place your custom screen printed transfer order. Your one color order will ship the next business day and your 2 color design will ship in 2 days! Just in time for the Mardi Gras celebrations!
Mardi Gras T-shirt Designs
