Aligning tshirt vinyl properly

[Renegade]

I got a mannequin to use for that purpose mainly.  Its just a bust, but I place the graphic and mark it and then I'm able to just adjust it out with the LogoIt! as the sizes go up.  The bust is also handy for displaying shirts on a sales table or whatever.

[Cre8tiveCutter]

I got a mannequin to use for that purpose mainly.  Its just a bust, but I place the graphic and mark it and then I'm able to just adjust it out with the LogoIt! as the sizes go up.  The bust is also handy for displaying shirts on a sales table or whatever.

Good idea! where did you get the bust from?

Renee

[Aaron636r]

All good ideas.  I'm finding experience is key here in aligning....

[tory]

All good ideas.  I'm finding experience is key here in aligning....

It really is, I remember the first time I went to press a shirt and measured, remeasured, and was sooo hesitant to trust it was in the right location. After so many shirts it's like secondhand. I was at a seminar once that stated because every body is slightly different and will hang slightly different on each person. Therefore, there is a variance for error and nobody will notice. I know for me, I'm always looking around at our local HS at garments I've made to see how they look. If they only how much went into those garments.

[Renegade]

I got a mannequin to use for that purpose mainly.  Its just a bust, but I place the graphic and mark it and then I'm able to just adjust it out with the LogoIt! as the sizes go up.  The bust is also handy for displaying shirts on a sales table or whatever.

Good idea! where did you get the bust from?

Renee

For some reason women seem to take offense to me wanting them to try on shirts and let me position graphics on their chest.  So, I started shopping for a mannequin to use and found they were pretty expensive.  I did find one inflatable torso that I almost bought, but one day I was at Dillards and asked a manager if they had any damaged mannequins that he would be throwing out or willing to part with.  He gave me a bodice that was pretty dirty and had a broken head hole.  It is really handy and takes all of my prodding and molesting without any complaints.  I started bringing it with me as a crutch because its sometimes easier to demonstrate how things will look when I'm doing custom stuff on demand.  Since I had it with me I started using it as a display and just throwing a hat over the broken neck hole.  Now she is my best buddy and goes to most any show with me.  After seeing how much use I get from her, now I would be willing to pay the money for a good used one if she ever leaves me.

[CherokeeDesign]

what I really hate doing as much as I hate cleaning the oven is the small right chest pieces, those take me forever even with the logoit!! Anyone got any tips for this??

Renee

I heard once that the front chest logo should be "over the heart".  Starting out, I used to always get too far to the side.  What I started doing was taking measurements from shirts that I already had, if I liked where the logo was placed (not ones I had printed).  I would measure both down from the collar, and from the centerline.  Measurements vary, a taller design will be higher than a shorter one, and if you're doing a series of same size logos on different size shirts, it will vary too.  One example, I have a shirt design that I've been selling on ebay, where the front logo is about 4.5" wide by maybe 2.5" tall.  I come down 4" from the collar to top of design, and I measure about 6.5" from the center to the far edge on large and XL shirts.  I'll come down another 1/2" or so for 2X/3X, and go up 1/2" or so on smaller sizes.  I'm happy with how they turn out.

Long day and I'm probably not making much sense, short answer, I think I downloaded this from here a while back.