One of the questions that we get most often from callers is if we print custom t-shirts with artwork already created offline. This is the most common for companies that already have a logo and just want it printed on some t-shirts. It’s easy, just upload them to us.

Here are some custom t-shirts we printed for an interior design firm:

Does the price sound unusually high? It may be something that you don’t realizing is driving the price up for your custom printed t-shirts. Here are 5 quick tips to save you money on your next custom printed t-shirts:

1. Go with white or grey printed t-shirts
   White and Grey T-shirts cost the least from the wholesalers to the printers and the print process is much less labor intensive for these tee shirts.
2. Lower the amount of printed ink colors
   Custom t-shirt pricing is largely based on the amount of printed ink colors.
3. Lower the amount of print locations
   Each location adds to the amount of ink colors and increases the amount of labor it takes to finish the print job.
4. Raise the quantity of t-shirts
   Buying a very small quantity (<24) raises the price per shirt because of the amount of set-up involved.
5. Go with a basic t-shirt
   Specialty t-shirts cost more blank from the wholesalers to the printers before the printing process.

When underbasing for screen printed t-shirts (laying down a white print underneath your artwork on dark t-shirts) it is very important to not print white underneath any of the black or metallic silver portions of the t-shirt designs. The black ink will print out a lighter shade than true black and the metallic silver will lose a lot of its pop.

Just a small tip for you. 

We recently had a customer contact us with a description of what they wanted but hadn’t quite put it together. We told them no problem and started to create their design for custom t-shirts. We came up with the first design and we were close but not quite there. After two more tweaks we had just what they were looking for. Here are the t-shirt designs in order:

At You Design It, we want you to get what you want.

We just wanted to thank everyone for our continued success and growth in 2008. We are looking forward to coming back tomorrow and cranking out some printed t-shirts and custom baseball caps.

We showed you a few posts ago a design for custom t-shirts that we created with some new artwork that we were putting together in the online t-shirt designer. Well we thought it would be cool to show you the different pieces that it took to put that t-shirt design together. Let us show you the finished product again:

Here are the pieces of artwork it took to accomplish this t-shirt design:

We are going to do some more of this in the future but with video. Keep on checking us out.