*NEW AFTERMATH SHIRT DESIGNS*

Actually my miniums are lower than a lot of shops. My minium order is 24 shirts. Alot of shops are 36-48+. Setting up a press for less then 24 shirts is time consuming.

Cool designs still though, just not pratical.

yeah but we dont even have 10 official members in the GA chapter yet. gotta lot of propects, but ya know. we working on getting to be a big group.

also i have a question as far as what file to send say if i wanted to go through u or robbie. do u prefer taking a .eps or .png?

also as far as sending something with a transparent background i basically just take away or lower the opacity to zero on the background layer in my program?

EPS with no background. Everything needs to be vector. If its not it could effect the print. Remember to always work actual size as well.

When I start a shirt design I create it the size I want the print at 300dpi if its in photoshop and if its in illustrator I simply creat the bounding box or what ever its called the size of my print and work within it.

Brandt would be a good place to go through. We are not printing shirts yet at this time and brandt does some very nice screen printing

Thanks Robbie, I think our work speaks for itself on print and the customer service that comes with.

Some stuff weve printed. We dont have time to put it all up there but we try to add some couple times a week.
http://www.graphicdisorder.com/gallery/display.php?t=bycat&q=10&nr=130&st=0&upto=24&p=1

If you find a competitors price im happy to do what I can to meet or beat it. We used to print on a small press/set up and we had to have high prices to do that because it simply could not produce items quick or accurate. We no longer use a small set up. We have a pretty rad set up, 6/6 press with micro reg, nice exposure unit, drying cabinet, jig for pin reg table/pallet jig, 20amp flash dryer, expandable conveyor dryer, ect.

Im already shopping for auto presses for when we move in the next 1-2 years. We are building a 10,000-15,000 sqft shop and you can expect us to be doing this for life.

yeah brandt ive been all over your site and robbie's checking designs and stuff.

another question i have as far as starting a shirt design. now every printer for shirts always says everything needs to be in vector. now does this mean i couldnt use any brushes on my work? like grunge brushes and what not? or are they already a vector? and yeah i have always done my work in 300 dpi nothing less. and i have mainly used photoshop, i had illustrator but it was lost when my last computer crashed. im just trying to better my work still learning at this stuff cause its always been told to me to just "mess around with stuff" on photoshop.

and another question. dealing with the size of a design if i wanted it to be the whole front of the shirt like a couple inches from the neck say down to the bottom of the shirt if i needed exact measurements could i just take a tape measure and measure on a shirt or what? ive seemed to have some trouble in the past dealing with this and just wanting to find a reliable way to know if i make this design this specific size then i want it to come out that size on the shirt.

i appreciate the help fellows...

You can use photoshop to design a shrit, but you have to ditch all them fades and shades if you want it to be an affordable shirt. You need the artwork to be actual size at 300dpi. Once your done doing a design in photoshop, it then needs to be vectored to print best. The best way to realize the difference is Photoshop is raster, illustrator is vector.

Also you should always check with your printer on his max print size. Most presses are around 15x17 pallet so thats max print size. However almost nobody prints that size as even on a 2xl guy 15 wide is in my armpits. I print most of our work at around 13x17. Which is pretty big on shirts even the big guy shirts.

There are bigger palets, but bigger pallets mean bigger printer for making your screens, bigger velum, bigger exposure unit(read $$$ on that one), bigger screens, etc. We are looking at setting our press up to do all over printing in the next few months.