Printing Custom Work Apparel
May/130
Work apparel is a large market in the apparel decorating industry. It can range from small to large businesses, trades to corporate companies, and uniforms to give-a-ways.
Layout QLO-3
Many companies provide uniforms for their employees, however, they may not be the sports uniforms that you’re used to printing! Although companies may not need names and numbers, many use left chest logos. Gang sheets are a great way to order left chest prints, as you can order multiple images on one transfer sheet, therefore reducing your costs. Uniforms may include t-shirts, jackets, caps, aprons, etc.
Left chest logos fit perfectly on a gang sheet.
Many companies attend tradeshows in which they offer promotional give-a-way items to prospects with their company logo on them. Many of these items can be heat printed such as t-shirts, koozies, hats, bags, beach towels, mouse pads… you name it! Again, many of these items are not full size prints, so they are perfect for gang sheets. Other events that businesses need apparel for are company picnics, open houses, and company sports teams.
The type of businesses who buy uniforms range from trades to corporations. Restaurants, police, landscapers, auto mechanics, and plumbers are just a few of the many types of businesses who wear uniforms. Sales employees also often wear apparel with their company logo on it, whether it’s a polo shirt or a button-down shirt.
Transfers are a great means to decorate work apparel. Screen printed transfers apply to cotton, polyester and cotton/poly blends. Our digital transfers, CAD-PRINTZ®, are great for other materials such as lifeguard swimsuits or for when you need full color logos on any fabric. With transfers, you can have low minimum quantities and also have the ability to print on demand for when your customers need one more item.
Opaque digital transfers are very versatile and work on many different fabric types.
Don’t forget our non-apparel products as well! The possibilities are endless with how you can profit from these items. Sell helmet stickers for construction workers’ hard hats, bumper stickers with company logos for the sides of company vehicles, or banners for special sales!
Use the same layout you used for the apparel to create non apparel products to help advertise businesses in the local community.
View our webinar, Work It! Selling to More than Schools and Teams, to find out how you can profit from all the opportunities to selling to the work market.
T-shirts are Great Graduation Gifts
May/130
Graduation day is a special day for a graduating class. It is the last day to see friends, teachers and class mates. A perfect way to commemorate the date is with a t-shirt. And it is just not high school seniors. Try selling to the local pre-school or kindergarten class. This is a big day for them, and a great end of year celebration. Also, middle school graduations are very important especially for schools like parochial schools where the kids have been there from kindergarten to eighth grade.
To make selling these shirts easy, we have created a number of layouts for the Class of 2013 t-shirts! We have 75+ layouts set up and ready to go. Just choose a layout, add the school name and we will print your plastisol ink transfer for you. Your transfers will be shipped the same day if ordered by 11 am, and could be in the graduate’s hand the next business day.
For smaller classes, try one of our signature layouts. We will create a template for your group to sign with a medium felt tip pen. Send us back the template with the signatures and in just a couple of days your screen printed plastisol transfer will be ready for pressing!
Congratulations to all the classes of 2013!
Customize any of our school layouts – Class Of, Mascots, Signatures & more!
Pick a Layout, any Layout… of our 5,000+
May/130
You’re looking through the Easy Prints® layout collection for a layout to use for an upcoming family reunion. You open up the Idea Book™ to the Occasions category and to the Reunions section. With 150 layouts in the reunion section, you have a pretty wide variety, right? But if that wasn’t enough, now multiply that by over 30! We have over 5,000 layouts that are available to you to use for reunions or for any occasion you need! With over 5,000 customizable layouts, you don’t need to be an artist. You can customize any of the layouts in any category to fit your needs. When choosing a layout, don’t limit yourself to only the category of the subject you’re looking for. After a few text and clip art changes, your basketball layout is now a reunion design!
Turn a basketball layout into a family reunion layout by replacing the clip art and text!
How do you like our paintball layouts? Our space camp? Our chess club? Our hunting? We have over 5,000 of them! Do you get the drift? Just find a layout that you like in any category and replace the clip art and text with a clip art that you need.
Choose any layout you like and customize it with the text and clip art you need to make it your own for any occasion!
Don’t get stuck on the category title – Basic, Fashion, School, Sports, Occasions, Work. Each layout in any of the categories has an endless amount of possibilities for its use! Be creative and think outside the box.
Customizing our layouts is easy!
1. Choose a layout
2. Change it
3. Press it and wear it!
Use Easy View™, our online designer, to pick any layout, customize it, and preview it instantly!
Do you have a go-to layout that you like to use? Tell us about it!
How To Use Rhinestone Ready Layouts
Apr/130
We have made it easy for you to create and sell mixed media printing using a screen printed transfer and a rhinestone transfer. Layouts from our Easy Prints® collection of ready to customize layouts have been organized by size based on the rhinestone transfer you want to order. The three sizes are 3.25”, 4”, or 5”.
- Find the rhinestone transfer you want to use.
- The size for the rhinestone transfer is found under the photo.
- Visit the Rhinestone Ready Layouts and select a category based on your rhinestone size.
- Select a layout and customize.
- If ordering by phone, just let the rep know the rhinestone needed, and space will be left.
- You can also preview and order online using Easy View™ with the rhinestone placeholder clip art.
Tip: All rhinestone ready layouts are based on a standard adult size transfer.
Easily create custom apparel using screen printed transfers and rhinestone transfers with our rhinestone ready layouts.
When your custom transfers arrive, press your screen printed transfer first, then, position your rhinestone transfer in the space that was left, cover the entire print, and press.
Watch our video to learn more.
Keep Calm Custom T-shirts
Apr/130
A popular meme is the Keep Calm phrase. This phrase actually has historical significance as a propaganda poster produced by the British government in 1939 according to Wikipedia.
The phrase has now taken on a life of its own being used in all kinds of popular culture. If your customer is looking for a Keep Calm shirt we have an Easy Prints® layout to make ordering easy. The layout number is QPR-15. We show it with a crown clip art like the original but you can change the clip art as well as any of the text. Be creative and try one of your own.
Customize Easy Prints® layout QPR-15 with your own text and clip art.
Two Generations = One Successful Business
Feb/131
In just a short time, a Kentucky t-shirt business has quickly become one of our top customers. The success story starts with a home embroidery business that our customer’s mom had run since 1998. Although always around her mom’s business, Jessica never really took much interest in it. As a senior in high school Jessica was in a co-op program; you took two classes each morning then had to work for the remainder of the day. She looked no further than her mom’s embroidery business to finish her co-op day.
She discovered her mom’s embroidery business served a successful niche and filled customer’s needs for birthday gifts, swim teams, upholstery shops and even a large number of sympathy gifts for funerals and florists. But they were turning away business.
All it took was a heat press and Jessica’s end of the business was born. She says, “I bought my heat press, and it has added SO SO much to our shop. It’s unreal. I now get calls on a daily basis about it. People in our community are so glad that our business is available and they don’t have to go out of town, because we are a really small community.” Jessica’s biggest customer is the local school system but she also does orders for restaurants, factories, and local businesses. She also has done shirts for several fundraisers. After graduating from high school, Jessica has been taking graphic design classes at her local college which fits perfectly with their business. She has found success and hasn’t even turned 21 yet!
Her biggest challenge is keeping up with an older brother who at the age of 21 is a successful full time farmer with a tremendous work ethic! A second challenge is learning the ins and outs of the new business. She said the mistakes help you learn real fast!
Jessica and her mom decided to move out of the home business to a store about a year ago. She says it has been much more than they could have imagined and her greatest success. They were operating in their basement which was small and could be awkward as customer’s came knocking at the door. They weighed the pros and cons and decided a store could be nothing but good! They built a little shop right across the street from their home. They now have a store they can feel confident about! Their work area is now separated from the showroom where they greet customers.
Obviously a family with a strong work ethic, good values and the entrepreneurial spirit, we have no doubt they will be successful for many years to come!
Mom and Jessica, happy to grow from home business to their own store.
New – A lightweight, breathable number
Jan/130
Introducing the new Champ Air™, a screen printed transfer number style, perfect for your spring sports applications including performance wear, uniforms and t-shirts. The printed mesh design gives it space to breath and lightens the weight. It applies to cotton, polyester and cotton/poly blends in just four seconds using your heat press.
The number is available in 4, 6, 8 and 10” sizes in the colors white and black and a 2 color version that is white with a black outline.
Champ Air, like all Easy Prints® numbers, are made for easy application. They are printed on a release paper that automatically aligns with other digits for your 2 digit numbering, as well as the Express Names™ that can be positioned above the number and applied at the same time. This self-alignment system saves you valuable time and money. An entire team can have their uniforms with a screen printed number in less than 10 minutes!
Numbers are sold in packs of five, as well as money saving Express Packs (can number three teams) and Kits (to number a league). Orders placed by 3:00 EST will ship the same day.
Champ Air™ is a screen printed transfer number style that is lightweight and breathable with its' mesh design.
Year Round Custom Apparel Sales Ideas
Dec/120
Each month brings new customers and new opportunities for profitable sales for your custom apparel business. To help you find inspiration, we have created a custom printing sales calendar.
Every month is shown with the events that typically take place in that month, as well as some Easy Prints® art ideas for those events. Easy Prints are professionally created art layouts that can be used for your event with a change to the text and clip art and the choice of colors and size. With a little data entry and a click of the button, you have finished art with our online designer called Easy View™. Not ready to order? Add it to your cart and save for later. Show your customer and just submit when you are ready to order the custom transfers. The calendar was designed for the Midwest seasons (Ohi0), so your geography and the weather may require slight adjustments to the calendar.
January rings in the New Year and its parties and events that need custom shirts. Other custom transfer sales ideas for January include Martin Luther King, Jr Day, skiing and sledding. Also consider the groups escaping the cold on cruises.
The entire year is shown so you can plan ahead. Create art and flyers to show groups what you can do! Nothing sells like a visual idea so personalize it with their group name, in their colors and include your selling price and where they can order when they are ready!
Create custom apparel in seconds with custom heat applied transfers.
The Popular Vertical Arch!
Nov/120
Being a part of the apparel industry, when you travel you take special note in the custom printed t-shirts and sweatshirts everyone is wearing. This past Saturday we were in Disney World during “rival weekend.” The number of tourists wearing their support on their shirt was amazing. We saw both Ohio State and Michigan shirts, Florida and Florida State, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and Clemson and South Carolina.
What really surprised me was that despite all the different types of artwork available, including our own from Great Dane Graphics, the most popular look is the vertical arch!
What is a vertical arch? With a vertical arch, the bottom of the letters sit on an arc, yet the letters remain upright. The Easy Prints® layout for the vertical arch, one line of text is QAL-3. You can have this say anything you need, any font, and your choice of letter height. The vertical arch format is also available as an Express Name™ in Full Block or Hercules if you just need one of a particular name, phrase or word.
As Clevelanders who don’t get much of a chance to celebrate our sports victories, this rival weekend was one to be noted. Our Ohio State Buckeyes beat Michigan, and our Cleveland Browns beat the Pittsburgh Steelers!
Custom t-shirt with a vertical arch using Easy Prints layout QAL-3
Celebrate Your Championship with Shirts!
Nov/120
Customized apparel using championship layouts QWN-12 and QWN-25.
The state of Ohio crowned their state cross country champions this past weekend, and 192 teams started the football playoffs. Volleyball and soccer playoffs are also in process. How is your team doing? On our Facebook page, we saw many of you made the playoffs and we offer your teams continued success.
To help celebrate your champions we have an entire section of our custom transfer Idea Book™ dedicated to creating prints for these champions or playoff contenders. We have about 50 layouts that are easy to customize for your team including four new ones created by Dane Clement of Great Dane Graphics. Each of these t-shirt layout designs can be made your own by just changing the text, changing the clip art and choosing your colors. Many of the custom transfer designs in the specific sports can also be easily customized to celebrate!
We know that just like the professionals celebrating in their locker room shirts, your champions want quick service too! Your one color orders will ship the same day if you order by 11 am EST.
For those that aren’t superstitious, we recommend creating a “if they win” design so that you can get your order placed right after the big game.
We wish all of our customers’ teams good luck!
