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All I can say is study fonts, thats what I have been doing for 15yrs now, besides doing graphics. mark-s

Banner for the "Pig Out"

X2 top notch service and great to work with. Thanks Skarekrow.

Until today I had been happily ignorant of bitcoin.

Here are a few things I did for a friend of mine.

The wife wanted a tree on the wall, so this is what she got. Its made with 24" flat black.

as many times as this was posted in different areas I am not sure Ninja has't been hacked

Am I in a minority when I look at Gmail or other free svc email on examples posted in this forum and think " Uh Huh..."? Am I among the few who believe it doesn't give impression one is fully commited to their business, the same as they would be if a business name is used as the email domain?

Epson Workforce printers all come with Pigment ink by default, so you won't have to worry about an additional expense to upgrade to pigment later.

Love that last line in the survey about giving Benjamin a raise - he has shown some intestinal fortitude there

This is the first time I have seen a forum spammed by staff LOL Benjamin done lost his mind - posting in 6 different areas - same stuff

These apps won't give you any extra fonts, but they'll make working with the ones you have much easier: I like (and own) Printer's Apprentice, which is a Font Manager app for Windows - it allows you to browse, catalog and group your fonts in a variety of ways. It will also let you type in sample text and display it in all of your installed fonts (or uninstalled fonts that are on your computer) and help you to find the font you want to use. I also like (and own) Find My Font, which is the next best thing to having Mark-S watching over your shoulder when you're trying to match a font. It not only compares a pic of text against all the fonts on your computer, it then compares it against fonts online and shows you where you can buy (or download free if appropriate) the font(s) that best match your image. Dafont has a lot of fonts (not all of which are free for commercial use) and so does Fontspace (23,813 free fonts as of this posting)...

I HATE chrome but it looks so good haha. Keep em coming love seeing these for inspiration for my truck graphics.

Off topic, but this is the sign I mentioned replacing in my previous post... Pretty, but not very professional, as you can see... And before anyone asks... I took the picture from the inside and flipped it horizontally, which is why you see cars behind the sign... And this is what I left them with...

Gamecocks ? You must be in the upstate cause down here you see the tigerpaw 2 to 1 over that rooster.

I finished my first banner. It's for a traveling baseball team. I made my own BS out of a paint trim guide, double sided tape, and felt. Worked Great.

Again comments are welcome. Thanks to SkareKrow for the noose image appreciate it.

Print it around the neck with the knot hang down the back. Now there's a challenging press on a shirt.

It depends on the crowd...are they a "i want to buy here and now" crowd or a "i will give u a call later" crowd. For my bike show i brought a few samples with...had my laptop and cutter set up and could show them stuff and make it right there for them. This was before i got my shirt and hat presses tho. But this year im going to do a few shirts and hats to show off and some glass etched items... I will have my cutter there...but not my heat presses. Being a one man show and dragging all that stuff around is too much.

I have been printing shirts since '83 and a regular front print is been 11" wide.

I also use the "4 finger method" from collar to print start. I also believe in the "nipple theory" that states a print should not exceed much past the wearers nipples in width. LOL, but it's true...

Hello I will offer you my opinion but its a little bias as I have never done any screen printing. But I will tell you the advantages of doing heat transfer and some of the drawbacks as well. First you can do heat transfers with a printer , the transfer paper , either a household iron or heatpress. Very convenient and in my opinion the level of detail is better than screen print. The costs involved are minimal and its great for doing one off designs. There is very little set up time and you can literally have your finished product in minutes with little or no clean up. I run things from my apartment so its the only way I can go right now. I may get into doing screen printing in the future because it can be cheaper for larger volumes of shirts. Screen printing feels very natural when you run you hand over the design. Whereas heat transfer paper (even the best stuff out there) feels less natural kind of like the feel of an iron on (but more flexible than the ones from the 80's), and the space where the heat transfer is on the shirt wont really breath like it would if it were screen print. It arguable as to which lasts longer but I will have to say I believe that screen print (if done properly) should last longer than an heat transfer. But both will last long enough that you wont have upset customers. Screen printing involves creating screens with each color's design assigned to it. So if you are doing a 3 color shirt you will need at least 3 screens. Each screen must be designed with graphics software and usually a transparency must be printed out, then each transparency (1 per color) must be exposed to a silk screen in either sun light or with a light box. Once this is done the parts not covered by the transparency are washed out with hose leaving the design. Each screen must be accurately placed on the shirt as to line up with the other colors and then the ink is applied. I am sure I am leaving out some things but you can see screen printing involves a lot of start up time when compared with heat transfer and it can get messy. But the cost per shirt is better for large volumes. This is why usually you cant get a screen printer to do an order of 5 shirts. The start up time and down time makes that cost preventative unless you going to pay 30 -50 dollars per shirt! You have to apply each color separately until its done . This is why you see screen printing equipment with a carousel of 3 to 4 screens . The screens are literally on a circular machine and laid down over the top of the shirt, then the ink for 1 color is applied and then they spin this to another screen and apply the second color and so on. Screen printing has no limits on size. So doing all over prints is possible with screen printing. Heat Transfer has limits on how wide and how long (unless its on a roll then its just the width) BUT the wider the paper the wider the printer you need. Personally doing 8.5 x 11 inches heat transfers is usually a bit small and you have to cut out the design of the heat transfer paper unless you want it to look like a rectangle on a shirt!. This is why ppl here are getting the laser point 24 because it can cut the transfer paper for you so you dont have to do it by hand. Heres a pic of a heat transfer I did. You really cant tell and the detail is incredible. This was done on an Epson 1400 with Jetware for Darks Heat Transfer Paper. I did this with 2 pieces of 8.5x11 and cut it out. there are larger sizes of heat transfer available but I haven't ordered any yet. You can even tell where the 2 pieces meet but I assure you its 2 pieces. I also like the fact that I can order Heat Transfer paper in small quantities so as not to keep only as much as i need on hand. with screen printing you have to keep several colors of inks and screens and special tools and chemicals to clean the screens when finished. Well I think I have about wrote a book on this. I hope this has helped and if any body finds any errors with my information please feel free to correct me. Regards SHeister

I use my handy dandy left hand measuring tool. its always attached to the end of my left arm so it never gets lost I go 4 fingers down from the collar on the front, and just under the front collar impression on the backside of the shirt. everyones fingers are different so I measured mine and the 4 fingers measure 3.5" I also use my left hand to guage where to put left chest logos. I put the middle knuckle on my pinky finger at the middle of the bottom edge of the collar, then place the graphic 4 fingers down, at the tip of my middle finger across (imaginary line) that measures 4" over from center line hope that helps, you can tape up on a shirt where the graphic should go then put your hand on the edge of the collar to figure out your own handy dandy left hand tool too. depending on your hand size placement is different! oh, and sometimes with one-of a kind customer supplied v-necks, especially on a ladies (for anatomical reasons) I'll have them put the shirt on, and place a piece of masking tape where they want the left chest logo. Cause I don't wanna get it wrong by guessing how the shirt is going to stretch over her body. and I am usually surprised how far off the tape mark is from where I would have put the logo with the shirt flat on the press, just looks weird.

Wow- Unfortunately, I don't get on here much but THANKS for this information everyone!!

I had found this cheat sheet, hope it helps.