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Setting Up Your Tshirt Printing Project

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 Position 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” 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 simply create and print a tshirt printing template on cardstock.

We then cut out the image so that we can place the transfer into the hole.

This allows us to it 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 consistent and 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 would sit on that line because naturally 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” 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 additional tshirt printing information please go to our main website at tshirtscanada.com for a custom tshirts overview.

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