Short Sleeve T-Shirts

A supporter, volunteer or staffer in your shirt carries your name across a room, an event or a neighborhood for a whole day. So we treat the shirt as part of the same program as the mailer and the yard sign: it gets the same color management and the same proof step as everything else on the order.

We print tees by dye sublimation. The artwork is printed in reverse with sublimation dyes and heat pressed into the garment, where the dye turns to gas and bonds with the fabric instead of sitting on top of it as a layer of ink. Two things follow from that. The print is part of the shirt, so there is nothing raised to crack, peel or wash away. And there is no per-color setup at all, so a photograph, a gradient and a one-color logo are all simply full-color artwork, and the color count never changes the price or the schedule.

The print area is 8.5 by 11 inches (a letter-size sheet), and that is the maximum in any single placement. A full-front design can fill it, a smaller left-chest or pocket-area mark sits inside it, and a back print has the same 8.5 by 11 inch area to work with. Because the area is fixed rather than scaled to the garment, one image fills a Small and floats on a 3XL, which is worth deciding before the art is finalized. Front only is the standard; add a back print for sponsor rows, event dates, or a call to action.

Artwork behaves the way it does on the rest of your order. There is no color count to reduce to and no spot-color separation to plan: you send the design, we proof it at print size, and it reproduces in full color. Build the art at the size it will print, because an image stretched to fill 8.5 by 11 inches shows every bit of missing resolution on a garment the same way it would on paper.

End to end, a shirt order goes like this: we confirm the garment, the sizes and the placement; proof the art at print size and against the color of the rest of your order; print and press the run; quality-check the shirts; then fold and release them for will-call, local delivery, or shipping. Reorders start from the saved setup, so the second printing of a team, chapter, or seasonal shirt matches the first.

Short sleeve tees are not mailpieces, so there is no address block, barcode zone or postage to plan. The decisions that matter are the garment and the placement; each placement can use a print area up to 8.5 by 11 inches, front and back alike. Shirts are printed, pressed, folded and quality-checked here in Vista, then released the same way as the rest of your order: will-call pickup, local delivery around North County, or shipping to the address or event you name.

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• Printed by dye sublimation in full color: the dye is transferred into the fabric with heat, not laid on top of it
• Maximum print area is 8.5 x 11 inches in any one placement, on the front and again on the back
• No per-color setup and no color count: a photograph or a gradient costs the same as a one-color logo
• Nothing is raised on the surface, so there is no print to crack, peel or wash off
• Print front only or front and back; add a back print for sponsor rows, event dates, or a call to action
• Sizes run S, M, L, XL, 2XL, and 3XL, so one design covers a full crowd from a single order
• Build artwork at print size: an image stretched to fill 8.5 x 11 in shows missing resolution on fabric just as it would on paper
• Tell us the blank you want, or ask us to spec one; the garment, its color and the size run are confirmed with you before anything prints
• Not a mailpiece: tees are produced in Vista and finished for will-call, local delivery, or shipping, with no postage or address setup
• Color is managed across your whole order, so shirts match your mailers, postcards, and signs; reorders start from the saved setup