Naturally before any order for custom printed t-shirts takes place you are going to do an inquiry first. It is our intention to make this process of doing your inquiry and then potentially ordering your custom printed t-shirts from Tshirts Canada as easy as possible.

Whether you have your own custom tshirts design, a partial design that you would like us to add to or if you would like us to do a complete design for you, we can help you.

This is the procedure that we use to get your custom printed t-shirts order going.

You Begin By Sending Us an E-Mail

Naturally it’s going to begin with an e-mail from you.

You are going to want to know what it will cost to have us print your custom printed t-shirts along with the cost of shipping and the tax.

So, what we need to know is the number of shirts you require, the colour of the shirts, where you would like the printing, when you need the shirts by and your postal code.

• If you have your completed image ready just attach it to the e-mail.

• If you have an image and would like us to add text or something else, attach your image and the instructions.

• If you have an idea of what you want, then tell us what it is and will put it together for you.

Custom Printed T-shirts Inquiry Example 1:

You send us an e-mail stating that you are looking for 12 yellow haze, ladies custom printed t-shirts and you’ve attached the image that you would like in the front left chest. Above and below that image you would like the words “Johnsons Flowers and Gifts.” On the back you want the same image only larger with your phone number and your website. Your postal code T5X 1W6.

Custom Printed T-shirts Inquiry Example 2:

You have your own artwork already completed and you would like us to print it on the front of 25 white T-shirts and send it to your postal code L1J 7W6. You need theses custom printed t-shirts within two weeks.

Sending You a Mock-up and the Cost of Your Custom Printed T-shirts

What we do is put together a mock-up for you. We also put the pricing along with the shipping and tax rate.

Custom Printed T-shirts Inquiry Example 1:

Our e-mail response to you will be:

Thank you for your T-shirt inquiry.

The cost for 12 ladies yellow haze T-shirts with your printing on the front left chest and large on the back would be $12.25 per T-shirt plus shipping and GST (T5X 1W6)

… 12 x $12.25 = $147.00 plus $18.50 for shipping (Canada Post expedited – six days in transit) = $165.50 plus GST = $173.78

The T-shirts would be Gildan ultra 100% cotton and the printing process would be what we call process one-quality T-shirt transfers apply to the T-shirts with an automated heat press.

I’ve attached a mock-up to give you an idea how the shirts would look. Please let me know if this is what you have in mind.

Custom Printed T-shirts Mock-up for Example 1

Best regards,

Brian Hawthorn

This e-mail along with the mock-up would be sent to you.

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Custom Printed T-shirts Inquiry Example 2:

For the second example everything would look similar to example 1.

Our e-mail response to you will be:

Thank you for your T-shirt inquiry.

The cost for 25 white T-shirts with your printing on the chest would be $8.75 per T-shirt plus shipping and HST (L1G 7W6)

… 25 x $8.75 = $218.75 plus $20.00 for shipping (Canada Post expedited – 4 days in transit) = $238.75 plus HST = $269.79

The T-shirts would be Gildan ultra 100% cotton and the printing process would be what we call process one-quality T-shirt transfers apply to the T-shirts with an automated heat press.

I’ve attached a mock-up to give you an idea how the shirts would look. Please let me know if this is what you have in mind.

Custom Printed T-shirts Mock-up for Example 2

Best regards,

Brian Hawthorn

For more information on pricing please click this link: custom printed t-shirts

You Send Us Your Response

Once we have sent your custom printed t-shirts mock-up along with the pricing we wait for you to send a reply that has any questions or any modifications you want to make to the design. The mock-up is our starting point. We can modify your custom printed t-shirts design.

If we are using text on your design you can have your choice of fonts.

If need be we’ll redo the mock-up and send it to you again.

Once Your Custom Printed T-shirts Design Is Completed to Your Liking…

Once the design is completed to your liking and you let us know that you would like to proceed with your custom printed t-shirts we will send you an e-mail with the payment instructions.

Once we’ve received the payment we’ll send you a confirmation that your payment was received and from there we will get your order underway.

Your Shirts Will Be Printed and Shipped

When your custom printed t-shirts are shipped we will send you the tracking information along with the expected arrival date.

As you can see this process will allow you to see approximately what your design will look like on the T-shirt. You are not obligated.

Once your custom printed t-shirts are shipped you would receive an email similar to this:

Your shirts have been shipped (in the subject line)

Hi;

Your shirts were shipped on Monday via Canada Post Expedited and are scheduled to arrive on or before (actual date inserted).

To track their progress please log onto:

http://canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/track/personal/findByTrackNumber?execution=e1s1

(please be sure this link doesn’t become broken. If it doesn’t work by clicking on it, copy and paste the link into your browser – the link ends with e1s1)

Your tracking number is 01oo 1420 0016 7337

Thank you for your order!

Best regards,

Brian Hawthorn

Hopefully you’ve found this straight forward enough.

If you have a t-shirt project please send us an email.  Remember we can print as few as just on shirt (except for screen printing).

We’d like the opportunity to help you with your custom printed t-shirts projects.

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This is why we ask for photos or graphic designs to be at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). It is also helpful when we know the name of the font or fonts that you’re using in your t-shirt design.

Now we do understand that this is not always possible. In many cases we are able to manipulate your photos and artwork for your t-shirt design to sharpen and clean it up for you.

What is 300 dpi?

When you look closely at a photograph in a newspaper you’ll see that it is actually composed of dots. The same is true of a photo taken by a digital camera and saved as a bitmap (a jpeg, bmp or tiff is a bitmap). It is actually composed of tiny squares with different colors.

So when there is a reference to resolution, it is referring to how many dots (squares) there are per square inch, hence dpi. The more dots there are per square inch, the sharper and clearer the image and the better your t-shirt design will print. Each dot can be a different colour.

On the Internet the normal resolution is 72 dpi. The higher the dpi, the larger the file. So a file that is 300 dpi requires more memory than a file that is 72 dpi.

When we print custom tshirts at T-shirts Canada we want to have 300 dpi at the full size of the printed image. This gives your t-shirt design more detail and the results are clear graphics.

If you send us a photograph with a resolution of 150 dpi, we’ll put it in a program and increase it to 300 dpi.

But if your image resolution is too low we will be unable to adjust your image and therefore that image would be unusable in your t-shirt design.

One other point to mention is when an image transitions from one colour to another it is referred to as anti-aliasing. So for example to go from black to white, the outer edge of the image would be black, then dark grey, then mid grey, then light grey, then white. In photos this creates a smoother image. However for graphic design it is better to go directly from black to white. This is created using a vector format.

Converting Your T-shirt Design to Vector

There is another type of file used for saving artwork. This type is vector. What this means is rather than using dots the image is calculated based on formulas using lines and curves.

This process results in very smooth looking artwork and fonts however it doesn’t work for photographs.

Professional programs such as CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator are vector-based programs and have the ability to produce an excellent t-shirt design.

We use CorelDraw. CorelDraw has an application that will convert bitmaps to vector. This program does an admirable conversion most of the time.

When we are able to convert your artwork to vector, we do. You won’t see the difference at all because we don’t send you a comparison, but it ensures that you artwork on your custom printed t-shirts prints great.

Including Your Fonts with Your T-shirt Design

When you send us your artwork, please include the names of any fonts you used. Many times what we do is recreate your artwork converting it to vector when possible.

If you are doing your own t-shirt design in Word, please read this post on how to embed your fonts in the Word document. Embed your fonts in Word.

This way the t-shirt design you see on your computer will look the same on ours.

Cropping Your Photograph

When working with photographs it is usually best if you send us the original photograph with instructions for cropping. For example you might send the full photograph and say that for the t-shirt design you want just the person’s head in the photo with most of the background removed.

This usually gives us a higher resolution and subsequently a better looking t-shirt design.

Adding Text to Your Photograph or Artwork for Your Custom Printed T-shirts

It is actually a very simple procedure for us to add text to your photograph or artwork. If it is a photograph and you would like to also include some printing on the photograph we can easily do that. If you have a particular font in mind for your t-shirt design let us know.

You also may have some artwork such as a business logo or graphic and you might like us to add your website address and phone number. Again this is very easy for us to do.

We Can Work With Your T-shirt Design Suggestions

So in conclusion I would like to say if your t-shirt design artwork is already done, we can print it.

If you have part of your artwork ready such as a photo or a partial t-shirt design and you would like us to add to it (phone number, website or any additional text) we can do that for you.

Or if you would like us to create a complete t-shirt design for you just send us your suggestions and will put it together for you.

Before printing anything we send a mock-up to give you an idea how the shirts would look. If it needs to be tweaked we’ll do that and send a new mock-up.

Our intention at T-shirts Canada is to make it as easy as possible for you to arrange for your custom printed t-shirts and to give you a great looking t-shirt design!

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When we begin your tshirt printing project, it is crucial that we place your images correctly on the shirt so that they look their best. This is particularly important when we are placing an image on the left chest area. I’m sure you’ve seen T-shirts where the image is placed almost under the arm. We make sure that doesn’t happen.

Tshirt Printing Across the Chest

Our maximum tshirt printing area is 10.5″ x 8″. When we line this up on the T-shirt the top of the image is normally about 3 inches below the bottom of the collar hem.

This is determined by centering the image and also viewing where the line across the bottom of the sleeves would intersect. The image is centered so that the top two thirds of the image is above that imaginary line and the bottom third is below.

Printing In the Left Chest Area

This is somewhat trickier if you don’t know the system. At Tshirts Canada we have a procedure and guidelines that we follow.  The correct placement of an image or graphic in the left chest area, is that the center of the image is directly below the collar hem at the top of the shirt and either sitting on the line from the bottom of the sleeves or slightly above it.

Now naturally different images are going to display differently on the T-shirts so one thing that we do is we put a T-shirt on a mannequin or a person, place the image and then evaluate that printing position by measuring. We do not just eyeball it – simply because we want all of the shirts to look consistent.

Creating a Template for Your Tshirt Printing

Once we have determined the optimal position for your logo,  we create and print a tshirt printing template on cardstock. We cut out the image so that we can place the transfer into the hole. This allows us to lay the template on top of the shirt, place a transfer through the hole directly onto the shirt, line the transfer up, hold the transfer in place while removing the cardstock template  and then pressing  the shirt. This way the tshirt printing is on straight and the shirts look great!

Tshirt Printing On The Back Of The Shirt

When doing the tshirt printing on the back, the same general guidelines apply as for the front. So again, this means centering on the shirt with two thirds of the image being above the line that would intersect the bottom of each sleeve and the other third below the line. Now there are times when the image sits on that line because it’s all about how it visually looks. There are also times when we will shift the transfer up so that the tshirt printing remains balanced looking.

Printed Just Below the Collar

Frequently we are asked to print a smaller  image directly below the collar. Due to the nature of our tshirt printing operation the image must be about 4 inches below the bottom of the collar since when the T-shirt is laid flat on our heat press, the hem of the collar on the front is lower than the hem on the back. So to maintain a flat printing surface we must be below that.

By us taking a little time to make sure everything is lined up properly your printed T-shirts will arrive looking great!

Naturally we can also print on different areas of the shirt such as the sleeves and down at the bottom hem or off to the side, but this should give you an idea how we go about lining up your tshirt printing.

If you would like some tshirt printing information on ladies t-shirts please go to tshirt printing on ladies t-shirts or to go back to our home page for a custom tshirts overview.

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Frequently we receive requests for a custom printed t-shirts quote and the image and text is created in Microsoft Word. This can be an issue if your custom T-shirt design contains particular fonts and they are important to your design and the fonts are not embedded in your file.

For example, let’s say that you used the font  . Now if I don’t have  the font on my computer the font will display as or  , defaulting to a common font on my computer.

There are thousands of available fonts and I have more than 10,000 on my computer (they aren’t all active). Now since I wouldn’t have any reference point as to how your document should look, I wouldn’t know whether the image you sent me looks the same on my computer as it does on yours. (We always send a proof for your confirmation just to be sure).

However there is a very easy solution. You embed the font into your Word document so the font information is contained in your file. This is actually quite easy to do. You would do this while you are working in Word. This example was done in Word 2003.

How to Embed True Type Fonts into a Word Document:

1. On the toolbar at the top select the Tools menu
2. Click Options

3.  Then click the Save tab

4.  Select the Embed TrueType fonts check box. Leave the “Embed characters in use only” and “Do not embed common system fonts” unchecked

5. Then click OK

6. Save the document.

Your document will now show up looking the same on any computer.

If you would like to download this information as a pdf please click on this link:

http://www.tshirtscanada.com/EmbedFontsIntoWord.pdf

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If you are the school principal, teacher or administrator who oversees the promotion and/or commemoration of your drama department productions, plays, musicals or your music department, band, choir or glee club at your school or academy and you are interested in tee shirt printing for your project, we can probably help.

We done numerous t-shirts and can offer you printing on white and light colour t-shirts with no minimum orders. We can also do some types of printing with no minimums on black and other dark t-shirts. We do screen printing as well on any colour of t-shirt with a minimum order of 25.

I’ve provided a few examples to give you an idea.

Please note that if you are doing a play or musical such as Beauty & the Beast you must have the right to allow us to print these shirts for you. It is usually part of the package you purchase when you obtain the rights to present the musical. These shirts were printed using what we call Process 1.

These shirts were made for Bravo Academy for the Performing Arts’s (Mississauga, ON) production of Beauty and the Beast. They supplied their image with their logo for the front of the shirts and the cast members names and the academy’s logo and website.

Another example of custom printed tshirts was for a school north of Toronto. This design was done by one of the students for their musical production of Aladdin. They ordered 50 shirts so these shirts were screen printed (our Process 3).

A Childrenls Theatre group in Saint John had us print their poster on black t-shirts. We used our Process 2 printing for these shirts.

This design was submitted by a music school. They did a cute modification of using headphones shaped into a heart.

We are located in Canada and ship to all locations in Canada that Canada Post delivers.

For more information on our custom printed tshirts and pricing browse our website at www.tshirtscanada.com

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We’ve redone our website making it easier for you to find the information you need about getting custom printed t-shirts or baseball shirts.

Our new website has a much cleaner layout with videos beginning with general information on the types of tee shirt printing that we do. You’ll also find that we are able to print personalized t-shirts with a company logo and a name below, or shirts for a special function such as a bachelor party, a family reunion or a team with each members name and number on the back.

If you prefer we also print on baseball shirts as well as other styles of shirts.

We are located in Eastern Canada and ship all across our land including remote areas and into the north. Anywhere Canada Post delivers.

Please browse the site. You’ll find information, videos and articles. If you have any questions please send us an email.

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