You will need high-quality, cost-effective t-shirts and a professional-looking screen print design to properly promote your company or event, your sports team or staff uniforms, as merch for your social media brand, or to sell online/in-person as a business.
The first step is to collaborate with a supplier like R&P Prints Canada, which offers the flexibility of low minimum order quantities as well as free delivery in Canada, lower-than-average global shipping, and a lowest price guarantee. It is also critical that your t-shirt provider has graphic designers and screen-printing experts on hand in case you require assistance with your design.
Designing the Right Screen Print for Custom T-Shirts
How your print should be designed depends on the object you are producing, its size, shape, and layout, as well as the type of shirt or garment. Colours must also be taken into account.
Having said that here are some general pointers for creating a print for a t-shirt and other clothing:
- Take your design’s layout into account. To put it another way, this is how you pick and place the components in your design. In order to ensure that your text is readable and that your image and text aren’t too close to one another or too large, you should take the total size of the print into consideration when choosing your fonts and images.
- Make sure your design fits the t-shirt’s form and style. T-shirt designs should generally be more vertical than horizontal as a general rule, but you also need to take into account the sort of shirts you’re printing on; for example, a screen print for a v-neck should be shorter than for a t-shirt with a conventional collar.
- Consider how your design is positioned in relation to the shirt. The complexity of your design, logo, or catchphrase should be taken into account, and you should scale it for the best exposure. You don’t want the design to start higher than around four inches below the collar or extend all the way to the bottom of the t-shirt when it comes to placement. The area of focus of your design should be taken into account when deciding where to place things. If there is an image below or to the side of the text, the mathematical centre of your design might not be where the eye is drawn. The centre of the t-shirt is where you should ideally place the design’s focal point.
- Pick colours that will offer your t-shirt an appropriate level of contrast. Basically, to make your design stand out, pick a t-shirt that is a neutral shade, like white, beige, or black, if you are making a brilliantly coloured print.
- Use only high-quality digital photos, logos, and designs that are created using a vector-based application (which enables you to generate graphics using geometric forms). Also, images should be at least 300 dpi so they keep their quality when you resize them if necessary and saved as a .jpeg or.pdf file, so you can upload it to/use it on several platforms.
With these tips and your creativity, your t-shirt designs should look on-point.