Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today we're talking about some of the new tools
just released in the easyview online designer at transferexpress.com now you could easily access
helpful guides to ensure your artwork with fine details meets those minimum requirements for line
thickness and even the show through or negative space areas we're going to chat about why these
tools have been added to the designer where you could find them and even how to use them are
you ready let's get right to it if you are new to transfer express we are the world's largest
supplier of custom screen printed and digital heat transfers heat presses free customizable designs
wholesale apparel and expert advice to help grow your t-shirt business if you haven't already
subscribe we're kicking out new videos like this one every single week heat transfer technology has
advanced pretty fast in the past couple years but there's still some limitations when it comes to
those tiny tiny details here at transfer express we pride ourselves on quality heat transfers and
want to ensure your artwork is going to look great we've got a whole team of graphic designers here
to help you out with any artwork fixes but those may delay your order so to help out we released
a helpful tool here in easy view online designer so you could check and see if your artwork meets
all of those minimum print requirements for line thickness and show through areas so let's jump
over to easy view online designer and i'll show you where you could find them once you're at
transferexpress.com we could click here on order transfers to open the online designer now easy
view is a free online t-shirt designer you just need to have an active transfer express account
to access it creating an account is fast and easy and will even automatically send you a welcome
pack with some free heat transfer samples for you to try out an easy view online designer you could
design your own t-shirt artwork using the huge catalog of clip art and customizable layouts
that you could easily edit for your own project or if you've got artwork ready to go you could
upload your own files right here in the designer regardless of where your files are coming from
you can check and see if your artwork meets the minimum print requirements with this new helpful
guide right here on the left hand side of the design window these three lines under the select
zoom and pan controls brings up our print standard guides they are four color-coded lines that are
visual representations of the minimum requirements for those show-through areas and line weights
starting off at the top with the orange one we have our show through minimum this is primarily
for screen printed transfers to ensure your show through areas or negative space does not close up
and fill in when printed with ink at .04 inches or around 2.8 points this is the minimum for
those small areas to still show the garment through in the industry we call this closure
it's when small details fill in when the ink spreads out so take the letter o for example if
the letter is too small the ink may spread ever so slightly when printed into the fibers of a t-shirt
filling in that show through area so instead of the letter o you just have a solid circle now if
you're worried about important details in your artwork filling in you can pop open the guide
and position it to your file just like this using that little rotate handle in the green if
needed now we know these areas are going to print with the garment showing through and won't fill
in when printed next up on the tool is the green line or our minimum line thickness for our screen
printed transfers this gets down to .012 inches or right around one point this will ensure your
fine details have enough area to print and bond to the fabric of the apparel that you're printing out
under that green line you're going to see a purple line and that is the minimum thickness for our
glitter screen printed transfers as glitter transfers have real glitter suspended in a
clear ink the line needs to be just a little bit thicker than our standard
screen prints with the guide showing .25 inches or about an 18 point line finally at the bottom
we have our blue line now this blue line notes the minimum line requirement for ultra color max heat
transfers this minimum is in to ensure your small details will print properly on your finished shirt
and then remain bonded to the fabric through many cycles through the washer and dryer you
may see fine details and thin lines highlighted pink during the final proofing step when you are
ordering ultra color max so this is a great way to avoid those errors and ensure your artwork will
print great and once we're all set we'll just click back to the standard selection tool that
little arrow cursor at the top of that menu on the left hand side and you'll notice all of our line
thickness guides all disappear and that's it now you could check your designs if you are worried
about the fine details meeting those minimum print requirements of course we always have our
staff of designers ready to help out with any file adjustments you need if you are unsure how to fix
your artwork you can always email call chat or leave a note on your order an easy view online
designer with the exception of ultra color max all art fixes are absolutely free for all of our
transfer types make sure you're subscribed here to our transfer express youtube page because we're
going to be rolling out a ton of helpful easy view online designer videos here in just a couple
weeks of course if you have questions or have a topic you'd like to see us cover for an upcoming
video just let us know down in the comment section below but until next time i'm dave happy pressing