Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today we are talking vacations! ...Okay, now,
while i wish we were actually going somewhere exotic and tropical
we're going to be talking all about how to position and sell
custom vacation t-shirts how to easily design them with no design skills needed
and then just how easy and quick they are to print are you ready to set sail? let's go!
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kicking out new videos like this one every single week now any occasion is complimented nicely with
a custom t-shirt and vacations family trips or these destinations are absolutely no different as
a custom t-shirt decorator offering or advertising your capabilities for group vacation t-shirts
is a great idea if you are looking for some new printing opportunities even if you're
just a hobbyist at home vacation teas for your friends family or neighbors can bring in easy
repeat orders year after year now you can see by just a quick search on etsy for something like
vacation t-shirts there is a huge market here for these kinds of shirts so let's take a quick
look at some t-shirt inspiration and we'll talk about how your product listings or teas can really
stand out destinations are really a great place to start whether it be the mountains the beach
or even a city tying the design to a location could help your customers find your products
faster it's much more focused than just vacation t-shirts if you've got an etsy store be sure to
include all the appropriate keywords in your title and your product description too for this think
something along the lines of custom new orleans bachelorette party trip t-shirts for something
like this family road trip to the rockies you could list it as custom family mountain road trip
or even something like rocky's road trip custom family vacation t-shirts use the phrases that you
would search for a similar product you can even do some research just by testing the search yourself
and see what results etsy is serving for that query and then you could tailor your product
listings as necessary of course disney family trip shirts are always popular year in and year out
just be careful of using any trademark logos or characters now this design for the douglas family
used some of that magical inspired imagery and a lookalike disney font without infringing on
any copyrights any vacation with groups of kids will always benefit from matching shirts it just
makes everyone so much easier to spot in crowded places like those theme parks or even airports
you don't necessarily need to create and print t-shirts for all of your product listings for
whatever niche that you want to target now using the brand new easy view online designer
at transferexpress.com you could mock up some t-shirts to use for product listings or social
media posts to advertise without actually printing anything or needing photoshop or illustrator or
any of those other programs after whipping up some quick designs which we'll dive into here in just a
minute you can upload your own photos or purchase mock-ups to help make your photos stand out in a
social media scroll or in any online marketplace you could always then save your designs for future
use ready to customize and order when the time comes now using easy view online designer to
create custom t-shirt designs is just so super simple and you don't have to worry if you have
zero graphic design experience our team of experts here at transfer express is adding new artwork
every single week to stay up to date on trends and giving you the ability to create some really cool
t-shirts with just a few clicks here in the travel vacations folder there's a ton of trendy artwork
that you could customize with just a few clicks let's use this one qva15 and we could quickly
customize this by just double clicking on the text to change the details we need and then you can
even swap different clip art out in these layouts here instead of arizona let's switch this over to
california and using the replace clipart feature on the left hand side so we could click here and
select clipart then just search what you need in this case california and bam right there we'll
pull in this california state shape to replace the arizona one now we could duplicate this design
out on our sheet for a better fit maybe on say youth apparel or maybe even some onesies and we
could also include some upper back prints with the family's name on a license plate that looks
real cool with screen printed transfers you're paying for the sheet so using all of the space
is an awesome way to pack some value into the print cost especially on these lower piece orders
like the family shirts where you're most likely going to be printing a total of 6 to 12 pieces
with just a couple more clicks we could configure our transfer order we'll be using some awesome
dimensional puff inks here for this project so we could just select it here choosing screen printed
and our puff inks and then we'll just add the design to our cart now when our transfers arrive
it's time to press and now that our transfers have arrived we'll go ahead and cut them out from the
sheet and we have some really cool tie-dye apparel that's super trendy for 2022 and we're gonna head
back to the heat press and get this tank top printed now that we're back here at our 16 by
20 hotronix auto clam press we do have everything set up to print with our puff inks so we could go
up to 370 degrees we'll do a five second pre-press and a five second press now our puff inks are a
hot peel so we'll want to be sure that we remove the carrier immediately when the press opens but
one trick to printing puff inks as well is making sure that there is no moisture in your shirt now
this is a 100 cotton tank top here so we'll go ahead and get this loaded onto our heat press
and we want to make sure that we're nice and straight so we kind of find these seams
chase everything directly down and then we'll roll it back up off the heat press and once
we're happy with centered on the placement we'll go ahead and give this a pre-press
now like i mentioned sometimes you might have to pre-press multiple times to remove all the
moisture from the shirt so i saw a little bit of steam still rising up let's pre-press it again
once we don't see any more steam rising from the shirt and we could touch the shirt and it
should feel very warm but sometimes you can even feel moisture in the shirt as well it feels very
dry so we're ready to print now we'll grab our transfer right here for the rogers family nice
little license plate design and we're going to align this one directly centered on our shirt here
so i'm going to go just about three fingers down
from the collar it's going to put it in that perfect center chest location
so once we're happy with the placement we'll go ahead and press this for that five seconds
puff transfers are a hot peel and the press peeled it for us
so look at that awesome high density dimensional print on this 100 cotton tank top
now that we've got our front printed and it looks absolutely stellar let's go ahead and rotate the
shirt around and we'll print that print on the back side now once we have this rotated around
we're going to go ahead and pre-press this because we didn't pull the moisture out of it like we
did that front side and you could see there's some wrinkles in here too we'll get those out
now once we're pre-pressed you can see it flattened a lot of those wrinkles out
and we have a nice smooth dry even printing surface right here in between the shoulder
blades and once we're happy with the placement there we'll just double check and we'll go
ahead and press just like we did the front side for that 370 degrees for five seconds
and we'll peel hot as soon as the press opens leaving us with another awesome dimensional
print and just like that you've got some super simple customized t-shirts and tank tops that
you could easily sell for any group destination or vacation but we are pushing out new videos
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you