School T-Shirt Design In A Snap

It is so easy to create a  cool T-shirt design for your school online by editing one of our templates, that just about anybody can do it.

Here's how you do it, including a video at the end.

All you have to do is pick a shirt style, then select Decorate Now to open the designer. From the designer, you select  Add Art and choose Stock Art/Templates. Once you choose the school template you like, it will load and you can start editing.

Pick Your Product

Select Decorate Now

Add Art from the Designer

Select Your Stock Design Template

Your Template Before Editing

Your Design After Editing

Change the text or change the font style. Change the colors of the text and graphics in the design. You can rearrange the graphic and text layering. Maybe you prefer for a graphic to overlap on top of the School name - you control this with layering.

You can also add or remove text and graphics. Remember, the design template is just the starting point, so use one for starters and mash it up any way you like to make your school t-shirt design truly unique.

See How It's Done In This Video

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Tell Your Customers You Mean Business

Logoed Apparel Makes a Positive Impression

Customers Want To Feel Comfortable

Sometimes we get so caught up in our business, we forget to look in the mirror - literally. As a business owner or manager, it's always a good idea to look at examples of how other businesses operate. Do you frequent a business that always impresses you? What do they do that makes you feel so comfortable? When you look at your own business, do you feel like your customers see you the way you wish to be perceived? If not, you need to do something about it.

What You Don't Want To Do

Have you ever needed some landscaping, remodeling or other service for your home? Maybe you've needed some other service, like auto repair or legal advice. Many times you will ask for a few estimates, not just for pricing, but to see who you will be working with. Now ask yourself "Did the company representative's appearance make an impressions on you?" Of course it did. Most likely you felt most secure with the company that not only knew what they were talking about, but LOOKED GOOD too. Don't be the company that doesn't look good.

Show Them You Mean Business

Aside from all the extremely important things you must do to impress your customers, such as promptness, friendliness, and great service or product offerings, you must look the part. And this part really is easy. You need to wear logoed apparel.

The options are endless. For many companies, such as, landscapers, builders, restaurants or bars, a simple screen-printed t-shirt (fancy or basic) for staff or servers will do the trick. For retail counter help, financial services, home services or contractors, embroidered polos or woven shirts are likely a better choice.

You know your business and how you want to present yourself. Take the step to show your customers you mean business. And if you need assistance or advice, call us - we're glad to help.

Add Your Logo to Polos with Embroidery

Add Your Logo to Woven Shirts with Embroidery

Add Your Logo to T-Shirts with Printing or Embroidery

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Custom Tees for Summer Fun Events

Summer is the time for parties, celebrations & friendly (sometimes fierce) competitions. Maybe it's a volleyball match at a family reunion or a full blown multi-event outdoor challenge between friends & family.

Whatever the case, events need t-shirts. Get creative and design your own custom t-shirts for your next event.

Patti  & friends from Palatine, Illinois created t-shirts for their "Summerset Cup" event, an outdoor summer challenge between friends. A nice 4-color design printed on sports grey Gildan 5000 100% cotton t-shirts. 32 t-shirts were custom printed for adults & kids to commemorate the event. 

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Crazy List of Guinness World Record for Most T-Shirts Worn at One Time

I don't know what you think, but this is hilarious. Think about wearing 150 or even 250 T-Shirts all at one time. I have to think this feat would be suffocating. It's definitely not for the claustrophobic. Here is a list of record holders as best we could compile at the moment. We were quite surprised at how many times this record has been broken in recent years. Note: Some of the dates don't make sense, so we listed in order of number of shirts worn.

Newest Guinness World Record Holder - December 2011 - 257 T-Shirts

The most T-shirts worn at once is 257 and was achieved by Sanath Bandara (Sri Lanka) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 22nd, 2011. The record was attempted on stage in front of a crowd of people in a public park in Colombo. Sanath was victim of the 2008 Weliveriya bombing in Sri Lanka and has attempted to break Guinness World Record ever since.  It took him 1 hour, 7 minutes and 3 seconds to get to 257.
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Guinness World Record Holder - May 2011 - 252 T-Shirts

Hwang Kwang-hee (Hangul: 황광희; Hanja: 黃光熙;[1] born on August 25, 1988), also known mononymously as Kwanghee, is a member of the nine-member South Korean boyband ZE:A managed by Star Empire Entertainment. They debuted on January 7, 2010 with the single Mazeltov.[2] Hwang is also well known for being a popular star in the variety show scene.[3]

On May 28, Hwang attended the "2011 Environment Day" event in Seoul, where he participated in a "clothes layering game" and shocked everyone by putting on 252 layers of t-shirts, earning him a Guinness World Record for the most T-shirts worn.

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Guinness World Record Holder - January 2012 - 249 T-Shirts

Las Vegas, NV, USA -- Andy Coyne of Greenville managed to wear 249 T-shirts at one time, which weighed in at more than 200 pounds, at an industry trade show in Las Vegas - setting the new world record for the Most T-shirts worn at once, according to World Record Academy (www.worldrecordacademy.com).
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Guinness World Record Holder - November 2011 - 247 T-Shirts

On November 11, 2011, Tom Rauen of Dubuque, Iowa USA at the Diamond Jo Casino, broke the World Record by wearing 247 T-Shirts at one-time. Tom Rauen trained for months to prepare for what he expected might take 2.5 hours or more. Although time has nothing to do with this record, Rauen’s team helped him put on shirt #247 after just an hour and forty-five minutes. The last shirt was a Size 20X, and was large enough to cover a queen- sized mattress. Three past world record holders in this category have been from the USA.
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Guinness World Record Holder -  May 2010 - 245 T-Shirts

In Croatia, Kruno Budiselic managed to put on 245 T-shirts ranging in size from M to XL in less then two hours - setting the new world record for the Most T-Shirts Worn at One Time.  In total Budiselic put on around 68 kilos with T-shirts ranging in size from M to XL in less then two hours. 

At one point he warned judges he thought he might have to quit when he felt he was being throttled by the neckbands. At the end of the competition the Croat told Novi list daily he felt a crisis coming somewhere around the 120th T-shirt, and now feels a slight pain in his neck.
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Guinness World Record Holder - September 2008 - 237 T-Shirts

On September 19th, 2008, Swedish T-Shirt Store breaks the previous Guinness World Record for most T-shirts Worn at One Time by wearing 237 T-Shirts.
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Guinness World Record Holder -  September 2006 - 155 T-Shirts

Previously the record was set live on The Early Show by Matt McAllister on September 15th, 2006. He donned 155 screen printed t-shirts in 4 hours, sizes Small through 10XL, adding 100 pounds.
We found this unbelievable and have shared it in the past at the TerrificT Facebook page.
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So what do you think - how many t-shirts could you wear at once?

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Why Better Screens Make Better T-Shirts

Evaluating Completed Screen Exposure Test

Say, what's this guy doing you might ask?

We'll, that guy is Felipe and he is one of TerrificT's resident screen-print guru's.

What Felipe is doing is reviewing a Screen Exposure Test with what we printers call a 'Loop', which magnifies small details such as halftone dots.

You see, being at the top of your game as a Custom T-shirt & Apparel Screen-Printer is not a matter of just slapping ink on a shirt.

To be the best, you MUST constantly set time aside for research and development, as well as, monitoring your screen and print standards to ensure you are within your acceptable production tolerances. I don't know what it is about screen printers in general, but dang I wish more took quality seriously. Unfortunately, the unwary t-shirt buyer only sees price much of the time until it is too late.

Why Your Screen Printer Should Use A Screen Exposure Calculator

Screen exposure tests matter, yet many screen printers don't bother to do them. An exposure test is done to determine the proper amount of exposure time for making screens. A test film positive, aka exposure calculator,  is used to create a multiple step exposure of a detailed test image (basically a step-wedge test). For example, a test pattern of varying line weights and halftone dots will be repeated 10 times on one piece of artwork. A tinted filter is placed over this test image with an increasingly darker tint on each repeated test image. After making one screen with the test image, you effectively have the same image repeated 10 times, but each exposed with a different amount of light . Each exposure step represents a factor of the test exposure time. The results are analyzed for edge definition, detail and complete exposure.  The best result determines the optimum exposure time.

Illustration: 10 Step Exposure Test Image

An exposure test is needed to ensure that a screen will print the best detail possible. If a screen is underexposed, detail will be blown out, often seen as blurry edges or white underbases 'creeping' because they are not fully trapped by overprinting ink colors - underexposed screens allow too much ink. Underexposure will also cause screens to breakdown in production, producing unwanted dots in the imprint area (pinholes) and likely ruining screens in successive print jobs because ink will physically bond with the screen mesh and ,unbeknownst to less experienced printers,  block detail when the screens are used again on future print jobs.

If a screen is overexposed, there will be a loss of detail, especially noticeable with fine lines, small fonts, and halftones. For toned or 4-color process images, this dot loss will make images look washed out and often create unwanted moire patterns.

A screen-printer must perform exposure tests for all the different screen types they use. For instance, depending upon the print shop, several different mesh counts are used. In layman's terms, mesh count refers to how large the openings are of the screen mesh. Printers use  larger openings to print more ink and finer meshes to print detail.

Exposure tests are not a one-time event. Being a great screen printer is hard work. Several variables, such as, humidity, art quality (film density or dmax), exposure light degeneration and others, merit frequent tests. I recommend weekly tests, incorporated into the workflow, but monthly tests will suffice.

Bottom line: A screen printer cannot guess proper screen exposure times - exposure tests must be performed. Precisely exposed screens will always produce sharper, detailed images. Sure, you can produce bad prints with good screens if you don't know what you are doing, but that's putting the 'cart before the horse' - first you must start with excellent screens, then worry about good printing habits.

Super Screens Make Super Prints On T-shirts.
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