5 money saving hacks – How to start a clothing line I’m going to teach you the 5 most important money saving hacks i’ve learnt to reducing your screen printing production costs when learning how to start a clothing line or t-shirt business. These tips will enable you to make money so you can continue to do what you love best. How much money can you make? In our real world examples (found towards the bottom of this post) by simply following these five tips we doubled our profit from $6 a t-shirt to $12.16! Continue reading 5 money saving hacks – How to start a clothing line
26 of the best T-Shirt label Designs Hit a dead end? Looking for the perfect inspiration for your next t-shirt tag design? Finding the right inside t-shirt tag design is challenging. Not only is the inside tag designed to give your customer the essential information, it’s also an attention to detail that reflects who you are as a brand. To get you inspired or help you get over your annoying “designer’s block,” we have carefully curated a list of 26 outstanding t-shirt sizing and care tags. If you are looking for pre-made t-shirt tags, check out this download. Continue reading 26 of the best T-Shirt label Designs
Custom printed clothing size tags. Legal requirements, artwork templates & more. This is where clothing brands really set themselves apart from one another – in their attention to details. Most clothing companies will stand for something, whether that’s mass manufacturing, bespoke creations, limited editions, high end design or specific genre graphics, whatever it is, you can generally tell what kind of label it is by what kind of clothing size tags they use. Continue reading Custom printed clothing size tags.
9 Blank Ghosted Women’s Clothing Templates You’ll believe ghosts exist after seeing our photorealistic templates in action. How do we do it? Well, that’s a trade secret, but we can tell you that the process is tedious, time consuming and therefore absolutely worth it to make sure our blank t-shirt templates are the best in the biz. Continue reading 9 Blank Ghosted Women’s Clothing Templates
Creating an Underbase in Adobe Illustrator – Screen Printing 101 When printing light coloured inks directly onto dark coloured garments with opaque color inks, like plastisol inks, the colors lose their intensity. To get around this, it’s best practice to first print a layer of white ink, known as an underbase. The underbase is printed first then dried to the touch with a heat gun or flash-curing machine before the rest of the color screens are printed. By using this method the colours will hold their vibrancy. When screen printing multiple colors it can be very hard to align the print areas of each screen perfectly, even if the screens are aligned perfectly the white ink underbase can bleed a little, you would then see hints of white where there shouldn’t be. For this reason the underbase artwork is reduced in size slightly, this is called “choking” the artwork. Choking the underbase gives the screen-printer a little bit of room to completely hide the underbase so it’s invisible to the naked eye. Continue reading Creating an Underbase in Adobe Illustrator – Screen Printing 101
Free Vector T-Shirt Mockup We are celebrating the release of The Ultimate Vector Mockup Pack and our NEW Master Collection with a free vector t-shirt mockup! Our brand new Vector Garment Master Collection Pack consists of 310+ high-end vector clothing mockup templates. Each mockup was meticulously designed to enhance and give body to the garment graphics. Continue reading Free Vector T-Shirt Mockup
310+ Apparel Mockup Templates – Vector Master Collection We’ve built, refined and launched our greatest collection of vector clothing templates to date. PrePress Toolkit Vector mockups are a fresh set of re-imagined clothing templates that allow for ease of editing and super quick deployment… but what makes a good clothing mockup great? Continue reading 310+ Apparel Mockup Templates – Vector Master Collection
Screen Printing Metallic Inks: The Definitive Designers Guide. In this definitive designers guide to metallic inks, we cover: creating a metallic ink effect in Adobe Illustrator, screen printing with metallic inks, proper garment care instructions and there’s even a free high-resolution metallic ink texture giveaway. Continue reading Screen Printing Metallic Inks: The Definitive Designers Guide.
Gold Foil: The definitive designers guide to custom foil printing t-shirts In this Gold Foil: The definitive designers guide to gold foil, creating and screen printing the effect. We get hands-on with creating a gold foil effect in both Illustrator and photoshop. We go in depth on how the gold foil effect is garment screen printed and explain the pros and cons of this printing technique. To top things off with deliver proper garment care instructions when dealing with Gold Foil prints. Continue reading Gold Foil: The definitive designers guide to custom foil printing t-shirts
Video Tutorial: Vector t-shirt templates using Adobe Illustrator symbols library. Hi Toolkit community, Dan here. I’m so excited to bring you this new tutorial that explores making lightning fast graphic mockups with PrePress Toolkit’s apparel templates. Not only are our vector templates the most stylish, slick, and easily editable vector templates on the web, but when teamed up with Adobe Illustrators symbols library they make for an incredibly fast mockup. Don’t have Illustrator? no worries all our templates look stunning in CorelDRAW too! If you haven’t already why not hit the play button above and see what all the talk is about. We take great pride in our work and are pleased with the high level of detail put into every mockup template we create for you. Feel free to leave us a quick comment of what you think, or of any additions you’d like to see added to the collection. About the Vector Templates. All PrePress Toolkit Vector templates are setup to take full advantage of Illustrators symbols library. Access every apparel template from any open document and be mocking up your t-shirt, polo, hoodie, hat or any of our 80+ templates designs in seconds. We know these are the best mockup templates anywhere but i’ll leave that up to you to decide. P.s. This tutorial also features out brand new Vector Vintage badges and Retro Seals art pack.
