Without the necessary information, ordering custom t-shirts for your business or organization can be a daunting task. Deciding what brand, style, fabric type, and decoration method shouldn't be done without proper research. That's why we've compiled everything you need to know to buy the perfect custom logo tees for your company into one comprehensive guide.
Custom t-shirts come in all shapes, sizes, fabrics, and styles. Certain styles might be more or less fitting for you depending on what your plans for your new personalized shirts are. Here's a look at our customers' favorite t-shirt styles.
Cotton has been the go-to fabric for t-shirts for as long as we can remember. That’s because cotton tees are cheap, soft, comfortable, and are the perfect material for screen printing.
Here it is, the traditional t-shirt. If you didn’t know what a short sleeve t-shirt is you probably wouldn’t be reading this, but we’d be remiss not to mention the most popular t-shirt style. The short-sleeved t-shirt provides ample space for your custom printed company logo.
Whether you're using your shirts for internal purposes or to promote your brand, there's a ton of ways that you can make custom t-shirts work for you and your business. Here's a quick look at some of the most common ways that companies use custom logo t-shirts.
The most common use for custom logo t-shirt is as promotional products. Whether they’re shot out of a cannon at a basketball game or they’re meticulously distributed at a recruiting event, pretty much everyone agrees that a promotional tee is a great way to get your brand out there.
Personalized t-shirts as corporate gifts can mean a few different things. You could give your new employees a shirt with your custom printed logo as a welcome gift. You could distribute them to your whole team as part of a holiday gift set. Or you could give them out to your employees as a simple thank you for being awesome.
A custom logo t-shirt is a perfect base for any employee uniform. They’re casual, comfortable, easy to clean, and they add a degree of professionalism to your staff. Plus, when you provide uniform shirts you don’t have to enforce a dress code. They’re perfect for the construction, restaurant, and healthcare industries to name a few.
A custom t-shirt can be an integral part of your sports teamwear in a few different ways. You can use a moisture-wicking t-shirt or compression shirt as a base layer to wear underneath your uniform. Or you could have a custom made t-shirt serve as your primary team uniform for a more informal sports league like a work league.
Enough about the shirts themselves, let's talk about how we're going to get that beautiful logo of yours onto them. The decoration experts at Merchology practice more than 10 product decoration methods, but these are the 3 that work best for customizing t-shirts.
Custom t-shirts and screen printing go together like peas and carrots. It's almost like they were made for each other. Screen printing works best on flat surfaces and works especially well on cotton. There's a reason that silkscreen printing has been the most popular t-shirt customization method for decades.
Heat transfer printing may be a bit more expensive, but it excels in many areas where screen printing falls short. With heat transfer printing you are able to achieve an intricate design with fine details, small text, and a lot of colors. All of those would be difficult to achieve using screen printing. It is also the recommended decoration method if you're individually customizing shirts with something like your last name or a jersey number.
We typically reserve custom embroidery for heavier garments of clothing like sweatshirts, hats, and jackets. That's because embroidery thread has its own weight and it can cause lighter fabrics to sag. However, we can utilize embroidery on some of our more study t-shirt styles like custom pocket tees, henley t-shirts, and work shirts.
When you're designing your own custom t-shirts, you have a lot more freedom than you'd have with most garments. This is especially true if you're decorating a completely blank shirt. With that large of a canvas to work with, the logo placement is really up to you, but here is where our customers most commonly place their logos on t-shirts.
- Center Chest
- Left Chest
- Right Chest
- Center Back
- Left Sleeve
- Right Sleeve
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