Printing your Artwork onto a T Shirt

Printing your Artwork onto a T Shirt

Weather you are a budding artist just starting out, or an established artist with works of art hanging in the National Museum, we can help you get your artwork onto a T Shirt just how you want it.

You may find the page How To Design Your T Shirt helpful as well as this information.

Getting your artwork ready, if your artwork is a physical piece of art you will need to create a digital copy of the artwork, one of the best ways to do this is with CamScanner an app which you can install on your phone, save the image as a JPEG. If you use the free version please be aware that it will add a watermark along the bottom. We recommend leaving extra space at the bottom when creating the JPEG so you can crop out the water mark later.

Once you have saved your artwork and it is ready for printing you can either choose the T Shirt you want from online and add your image and order, we print it up and you can either get it sent to you or collect from in store, or you can come in store with your file and we can print it up for you. The choice is yours.

Want to sell your T Shirts on your own website, eBay or Etsy, Creating a mock-up of your T Shirt so you can put it onto your website is also easy, we recommend using Placeit it is a great web site and has a free option for when you are starting out, there is also no need for photoshop experience.

We recommend when printing art work onto a Tee that you use DTG (Direct To Garment) Printing so that you get vivid colours and have a full colour reproduction of your artwork.

Some information about DTG (Direct-to-Garment) Printing, DTG is the inkjet technology that that you use at home to print up your documents from your computer. The printer has been designed to print full-color photographic, Text and clipart directly onto a t-shirt or apparel. DTG Printing is best suited for artwork that is too complex for other printing methods, like screen printing. DTG printers can print a huge colour range and can print even the tiniest details. DTG is the perfect solution for low quantity print runs as well as there is no set up costs if you create the artwork to print yourself.

Pros of DTG Printing:

✓ Prints are full colour, woo-hoo!
✓ Set-up times are low. If needed you can have a t-shirt printed in less than 30 minutes.
✓ Low Volume cost efficient. If you just want to create 1 T Shirt for your self it is not expensive.
✓ You won’t feel the ‘print’ on the fabric when you touch it since DTG printing machines inject ink directly into the fabric and has a lighter feel and when done properly it is flat and smooth.

As you can see it really is easy to Printing your Artwork onto a T Shirt when using our print on demand services.