The Ultimate Guide to Starting a T-Shirt Business

T-shirts. How has something so long-standing remained relevant and such a modern-day trend?
Custom lettering started with sports team jerseys but it has evolved to encompass so much more, including various methods to decorate the undeniably popular T-shirt. Today T-shirts are everywhere from schools, sports teams, restaurants and bars, concert T-shirts, tourist T-shirts and even high-end fashion. They are a wardrobe staple around the globe. 

This Ebook teaches you how to get starting heat printing tshirts at home and how to scale that into a profitable business.

The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Performance Wear

Performance wear is generally any garment designed to perform or function for a specific purpose. Performance wear helps athletes and active people keep cool, comfortable, and dry by using its moisture-wicking technology, high stretchability, and compression, among other methods.

Made from polyester, polypropylene, poly-blends and other synthetic fibres, these garments are generally sold to the sportswear market for athletes and other active people like runners, cyclists and yoga enthusiasts. Many people wear these garments as casual wear as well - think yoga pants and fleece jackets. Performance wear is, as the name says, built to perform. But it's not just functional, it also needs to be stylish - which is where the garment decorator comes in. The market for sports and performancewear is growing. It's a big opportunity for garment decorators who know how to handle these sometimes tricky synthetic fabrics.

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The Ultimate Guide to Design & Placement

The more places on a garment you can decorate with heat transfer vinyl the more premium items you can create for your customers. But how do you know where to place your designs on each item? For example, where does a left chest logo go on a men’s shirt versus a child’s shirt? How do you place a front chest design on a v-neck shirt?

The Ultimate Design Size & Placement Guide is a comprehensive collection of design size and placement resources for all kinds of garments and accessories. Use it to learn how and where to place your designs and to inspire you to come up with new ways to decorate items for your customers. Remember, more placement options mean higher profits for your business.

Choosing The Right Heat Press

Whether you’re new to heat printing and looking for your first heat press, replacing your existing press with a new model, or adding a heat press to increase your business’s production, you need to know what to look for. From basic elements like press type, even pressure, and temperature, to innovations like custom platens, this guide will teach you about the functionality and features of the latest heat presses. You’ll also learn what questions to ask when shopping and ultimately decide which press is right for the unique needs and challenges of your heat printing business.

The Lean Logo Formula

From the smallest athome apparel decorator to the company with the most brand equity, the Lean Logo Formula can help maximize your earnings. While the idea behind the Lean Logo Formula isn’t new, the economic fallout from COVID-19 has made it more relevant than ever. Now is the time for your apparel decorating business to become lean, nimble and focused.

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