Hey guys, Dave here with Transfer Express today we are talking all about artwork sizing. So,
there's tons of different artwork placements and sizing that you could choose from, and we're going
to do an overview of the most common fronts uh inside tag and back prints that we typically see
here at transfer express now if you're new to the channel transfer express is the leading supplier
of digital and screen printed heat transfers for apparel printing with two production facilities in
ohio and arizona we're able to meet the demand for customers nationwide we are dedicated to customer
service and helping grow apparel businesses is our number one priority everything we do
is focused on making sure we send high quality fashionable custom transfers on time and on a
budget so all about sizing today what size should i make my artwork now there are a few different
standard sizing as we'll say as shown right here now our standard sizes range from everything from
our center chest all the way to our inside tag prints so for our standard sizes if you're doing
a full front we recommend somewhere around 11 by 11 inches now our max full front size that you
could print with our screen printed transfers is 11 and a half by 14. if we're doing a left
chest you usually want to typically size it to four and a half inches by four and a half inches
our youth goes to about a nine by nine to ten and a half depending on the sizes on the order
for hats you're usually going to want to keep it five inches by three inches typically we don't
like to go any larger than two and a half inches because you may start getting into the top crown
of the cap and typically that's not where you want the placement to be for the upper back prints we
usually try to keep it within three inches or so and for tag prints two and a half to three inches
wide is about where it fits on our tag along hp platen the brand new one that you could do the
front of the shirt and the tags at the same exact time we give you a three and a half by three and a
half area to print that tag print so you're saying okay these standard sizes are cool but what size
should i make my artwork and really it does come down to what your artwork is and what aesthetic
you're looking to match now the number one easiest way to size your t-shirt graphic or at least get a
great idea of exactly how it looks is to just take a single piece of copy paper or notebook paper
and a ruler so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna measure out how big we want it to be
as you can see with this eight and a half by eleven we have eleven inches wide
eight and a half inches high standard notebook paper which falls into that standard area so
you could just hold this up in the mirror to see how your artwork is going to look
if you don't have a mirror you could hold it up on your friends or family members co-workers and
see how it looks on the shirt as you can see eight and a half by eleven on me looks a pretty standard
full front our center chest artwork so that's why we typically recommend 11 by 11. now if you're
printing a gang sheet here with transfer express eight and a half by 11 gives you a whole bunch of
extra space to put some other elements onto your gang sheet and maximize your print costs so if you
want to do something a little bit smaller you could always take your ruler and measure here
and say we'll go let's do like a seven by seven inch to see how that's going to look on our shirt
all we have to do is come down and we've got seven inches and seven inches and we'll just fold this
up and hold it right up onto our shirt so if our artwork is 7x7 all we've used is a piece of paper
and a ruler and now we can see exactly how that fits on our shirt it's not the size we want we can
make it larger and this is all before we've placed an order or printed anything so that you could be
absolutely confident when you're placing your order that your transfers are the right size
so additionally if you have a printer handy you just go ahead and print it out at size so we use
this work hard and be nice graphic and say at 10 inches or so is exactly where we want it to take
up that full kind of chest area now with three fingers down from the collar that's going to
put it actually about that high and you can see and kind of visualize how this is going to look
on your shirt using one of these methods makes you much more confident when placing your order
that you have sized your artwork appropriately for your project now easy view designer does
give you a little bit of sizing if you're going to be using easy view here we have
our design and easy view design center and we could just go down here to the bottom right
in the apparel share button and it's going to take you to the mock-up now while this is not exact
it does give you a fairly good idea of how your artwork looks on most garments now some of these
photos are a little bit differently sized and nothing is absolutely spot on so it's best to
use the paper method or a ruler to just look at the common guidelines on the shirt if it's
the collar or if you're going by total height you could at least size this appropriately and have a
somewhat realistic mock-up for your reference before you start printing shirts whether that's
going to be sent to your customers or just for your own reference so if you have your own tips
that you want to share we would love to hear them from you just please comment below if you're not
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the maximum return on your t-shirt business but until next time i'm dave and happy pressing guys