2009 November 13 Mama Divas

November 13, 2009

Nothing says “I love you” during the holidays like a personalized t-shirt does! There are a few print on demand companies out there that offer customized tees, such as Zazzle, Cafepress and Spreadshirt, but today I’m only going to focus on Spreadshirt.

Spreadshirt offers plot printing with Flex and Flock as well as direct to garment printing, all three of which are top quality and are great choices for printing tees, just depending on the feeling you’re going for as well as the design. If I had to choose though, I would have to say my favorite is Flock printing, just for the texture! It’s fuzzy like felt, but won’t pill or peel off. Rest assured, their flex and flock printing (which is basically vinyl heat pressed to the fabric at incredibly high heat with an enormous amount of pressure) is very, very durable and will stand up to many washes to come.

I myself actually have a Spreadshirt shop and have of course ordered shirts as samples, and the flex and flock are great! I feel that Flex and Flock designs create a much more finished, professional look for your t-shirts.

As far as designs go, you can either choose from Spreadshirt’s extensive library of t-shirt art, which is comprised of thousands of member-submitted designs and even includes Rhinestone appliques (unfortunately members are unable to create their own Rhinestones designs). Don’t worry! The designs are broken down by category (phew!) and you can search through them to find ones that are tagged under the keywords you’re looking for.

They have a great selection of fonts you can enlarge, rotate and colorize to your heart’s desire. Also, with Spreadshirt, the printable area of the shirt is considerably larger than with other consumer print on demand sites, so you have more room to customize, more room for creativity.

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