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Matching Family Christmas Shirts: How to Order Them So Everyone Gets Their Size Before the Holidays
Every year the same thing happens. Someone gets excited in October, the group chat goes quiet in November, and on December 10 there are nine people arguing about whether Grandpa...
Why Do Screen Prints Crack, Peel or Fade? A Troubleshooting Guide (and How to Make Prints Last)
You love a shirt for a month, wash it a few times, and suddenly the print looks like dry desert mud. Or the bright red went pink. Before you blame...
Puff, Foil, Glow and Metallic: 5 Specialty Screen Print Inks and When They Are Actually Worth It
Standard plastisol is flat, smooth and reliable. But sometimes a design needs to pop off the shirt, catch the light or glow in the dark. That is where specialty inks...
Where Should Your Logo Go? A Size and Placement Guide for Shirts, Hoodies and Hats
Your logo looks great on screen. Then the shop asks, "How big, and where does it go?" Too big and the shirt feels like a billboard. Too small and nobody...
Plastisol vs Water-Based vs Discharge Ink: Which One Is Right for Your Shirts?
You send in a design, and somewhere in the quote the shop asks, "plastisol or water-based?" It is a fair question, and the answer changes how your shirts feel, how...
Launching Your First Clothing Line? 7 Decisions to Make Before Your First Production Run
Most first clothing lines do not fail because of the design. They fail because of a handful of small decisions made in a hurry: the wrong blank, too many sizes,...
Why Does Printing on a Black Shirt Need an Underbase? How Bright Ink Stays Bright on Dark Fabric
You send in bright red artwork for a black shirt. The proof looks great. Then you picture the result and wonder: why would red ink show up on a black...
Why Your Reorder Looks Slightly Different (and How to Make It Match Every Time)
It happens to almost everyone who reorders. The first run of shirts looked perfect. Three months later the second batch arrives and the navy looks a touch darker, or the...
Race Day Shirts: Cotton, Tri-Blend or Performance? How to Outfit a 5K, Charity Walk or Fun Run
Ask any race director what they'd do differently, and the answer is rarely the course. It's the shirts. Too many larges, a print that cracked after one wash, a cotton...
7 Things Holiday Market Vendors Should Print Before Booth Day (Orange County Edition)
Every November, the same thing happens. A vendor spends weeks perfecting a candle, a hot sauce or a line of handmade jewelry, then shows up to the Saturday market in...
The Harbor Charter Crew That Kept Ruining Their White Polos (and the Fix That Finally Stuck)
The owner of a small Newport Harbor charter company called us in late summer with a problem she assumed was just the cost of doing business: her crew's white polos...
How to Run a T-Shirt Fundraiser That Raises Real Money (Without Boxes of Unsold Mediums)
Every fundraiser shirt sale starts the same way: someone says "let's sell shirts!" Three weeks later, there are six boxes of mediums in a garage and a treasurer doing math...
