Tshirt

Custom Engineered Tshirt

Personalized Tshirt: (Please call 636-0917 for tshirt consumables.)

1. Vinyl Tshirt = Starts at Php 350.xx
2. Light Transfer Tshirt = Starts at Php 250.xx
3. Dark Transfer Tshirt = Starts at Php 300.xx
4. Sublimation Tshirt = Starts at Php 300.xx

All types includes a medium to large to XL sized WHITE or BLACK Tshirt with one A4-sized design at the front OR back. No price reduction even if colors are reduced so make the most of it. Upload your design using the Upload Form located to the right of this web page. If you want a different color, size, and additional design on the other side or other parts of the shirt, please give us a call for pricing. For bulk orders, please give us a call as well.

Did you know that tshirts were primarily used as undergarments during World War 2? It was only popularized in the 1950′s by some Hollywood actors and since then, a lot of people caught up with the fashion.

WWII brought about international upheaval and the first printed T-shirts. The Smithsonian Institute displays the oldest printed shirt on record, emblazoned with the phrase “Dew-It with Dewey” from New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s 1948 presidential campaign. T-shirts were changed forever.

Although the T-shirt was formally underwear, soldiers often used it without a shirt covering it while doing heavy labor or while stationed in locations with a hot climate. As a result, the public was frequently exposed to pictures of members of the armed forces wearing pants and a T-shirt.

As an example, the cover of the July 13, 1942 issue of Life magazine, features a picture of a soldier wearing a T-shirt with the text “Air corps gunnery school”.

Nonetheless, T-shirts were still meant for men. That is, until marketing gurus including Walt Disney began to “flock” letters and simple (often peelable) designs onto T-shirts to be sold as souvenirs. Then came the ’60s, when hippies abandoned traditional dress for tie-dye. T-shirts became one of the easiest, and cheapest, forms of clothing to buy and dye.

Advances in Screenprinting gave people the opportunity to print on T-shirts in the 1960’s. Tye dying also become popular in addition to other forms of the t-shirt, such as tank tops and muscle shirts. In the late sixties and seventies, people began to realize that printing on t-shirts could be a lucrative business. Rock and Roll bands and professional athletic teams started to make huge profits selling custom screen printed t-shirts.

Plastisol, a stretchable ink invented in 1959, was the first revolution in T-shirt design. Then came the iron-on transfer. And finally the litho transfer. An industry was born.

And it has grown up. More than one billion T-shirts were sold in 1995.
We have three types of materials used on our tshirts:

VINYL

Vinyl is a common material used in signage and vehicle stickers and advertisements. It is very durable and can withstand prolonged sunlight exposure. The only disadvantage is that you can only use letters and shapes and most of the time, you are limited to 1 or 2 colors because it gets difficult to transfer if you use more than 2 colors. We have a cutter/plotter that cuts the vinyl to your specific shape (it can be a silhouette, a logo, a statement, etc. except photographic or gradient designs). Then the cut vinyl is transferred to the tshirt of any color and material (cotton, polysynthetic, etc.) using a heat press for only 5 seconds. The result is a fantastic and accurately cut design. If you compare a letter done in silkscreen, the vinyl transfer is much more smooth and accurate while the silkscreen letter most of the time has some blurry edges (especially if the maker was a beginner).

TRANSFER PAPER

Transfer paper method (Iron ons) is the most common material used in tshirt heatpress printing. So far, this is still the easiest and fastest way to get your designs to the tshirt. This is also the material used to print and transfer photographic designs. We only recommend colorful gradients and photographic designs with this material (letters and irregular shapes (i.e. silhoutte) not recommended).

We have two types of paper:

• Light transfers are only used for light colored shirts i.e light blue, light yellow.
• Dark transfers can be used for both light and dark colored shirts. The transfer gives a semi-rubberized feel.

We only use cotton shirts with transfer papers.
Warning: Durability and Washability is a common issue with Transfer Papers. Your design will get some form of fading after several washes. We strongly recommend that you only handwash the tshirt. DO NOT BLEACH. You can safely wash the tshirt after 24 hours from the time we transferred the design.

SUBLIMATION

We make use of sublimation technology wherein only a thin layer of ink (no part of the paper is transferred) transfers to the clothe. We print your design on a sublimation paper using a printer that contains sublimation ink. Then we place the paper on surface of a white or light colored polysynthetic fabric (i.e. drifit, nylon, satin, jersey, like those used as badminton shirts) and pressed with a heat press. The ink turns into gas and permeates to the fabric and after the heat press process (over 1 minute), the fabric pores closes and the ink stays permanent and cannot be removed. You can wash the shirt a thousand times and the design is still colorful and vibrant. Any design can be transferred using this method. The only limitation is with the type of fabric to use which is limited to white or light-colored polysynthetic fabric.