Garage Ink - Screen Printing

int orders it’s advised to print at least 12. Most of the cost on small quantity screen print jobs is in the setup, Rush jobs require that you order at least 24 shirts. How fast can you get my shirts to me? The absolute fastest we can print screen printed shirts for you is 3-4 days plus shipping. This assumes that the shirts are available in our California warehouse. *Please note there’s an extra charge for rush screen printing. Do I have to pay full price if I print the same shirts later? No. We keep the transparencies used to make your screens on-hand, so you only pay $15 instead of $25 on any reorder. What is a “flash” layer? A flash layer is when we double print a color on your shirt. If you’re printing light ink on dark shirts, we’ll usually print that light color twice so that the dark fabric doesn’t show through the light ink. This only costs you $.40 per shirt, and will make your shirts look a million times better.. Can I Use a picture from my web site on my shirts? Not preferably. Web images are saved at 72 pixels per inch. Garage Ink needs at least 300 pixels per inch to get a decent print. The rule of thumb is that if you print an image out on a good laser printer at the size you want it printed on your shirt, and it looks jagged or ugly, that’s what the final print will look like. What is the separation fee? If artwork is more than one color and does not come print ready (colors separated, black and labeled with registration marks) we charge for the time it takes to separate the colors and make them ready for film. Best way to send art ready for print is in EPS format. What is an.EPS file? An .eps stands for “encapsulated post script,” and is basically a printer file that is viewable and editable in some programs.You may be able to view it in a current version of Adobe Reader (as if it were a .pdf file).It’s editable in Adobe Illustrator , Freehand and Corel Draw. You can open it in Photoshop, but I’d recommend only doing that for your own use. When you open an .eps in Photoshop, it converts the file to something that is not as universally size able.Any production house or print shop should have no problem dealing with the .eps if you email it or give it to them on a disc. They’ll probably thank you for giving them something that’s easy for them to use. How do I know that you’re going to print the images where I want them printed? Before we submit the final order, we send you a proof with the approximate colors, size and placement for your approval. How do I decide what size to print the design on my shirt? Garage Ink recommends measuring other shirts you have with similar designs. You can also cut out a piece of paper to the size you think you want printed and hold it up to your shirt. Most designs are roughly 9×12. Is there a difference between a bitmapped .tiff and a .bmp file? A bitmapped .tiff file is an image that has been scanned as or converted to lineart and saved in the tiff file format. There is either black or white on this image; no gray tones. A .bmp file can contain colors, and are generally very large in size and low in quality. We do not print from .bmp files. How can I get my shirts be more affordable? Change your order. So you want cheaper more affordable shirts? Here are your choices:
1. Print less colors – this will get rid of some of your setup and printing costs. The result is a less expensive shirts and a more affordable price.
2. Choose inexpensive shirts – there are a lot of good quality shirts that are cost effective. Garage Ink recommends Gildan 5000 100% cotton shirts
3. Print more shirts – if you print enough shirts to get to our next price break, you will potentially save lots of money. This will give you a lower per-shirt price. Will you print dirty words on my shirts? Sure. Nobody has sent us a design yet that we wouldn’t print. This isn’t a challenge, it’s just a fact. We reserve the right to refuse service, but you’d have to get pretty crass before we’d exercise that right. What kind of shirts do you print on for your personal projects? There are a couple of choices. Sun Apparel, American Apparel tees are great if you want nice, quality affordable tees with a good fitting cut . If I want a heavier tee, I go with the Gildan Ultra Cotton. They’re heavyweight 6.1-oz tees, so you can compare them weight-wise with the ever-popular Hanes Beefy-T, which is another good choice, but pretty expensive. If you like a slimmer more athletic fit, we would recommend the Gildan SoftStyle, Canvas 3001, or Next Level Apparel 3600. These tees are ring spunned combed cotton and fit really nice. The combed cotton shirts print really well also. What is your return policy? If the product you ordered does not match the proof that was approved, Garage Ink will either fix, credit or re-order the screen print job. What is your refund policy? If your order is wrong because of an error on our end, send them back and we’ll credit your account. If they’re wrong because of an error on your end, we do not offer a refund or credit. If you’d like to cancel your order, you are responsible for whatever work or inventory we’ve put into your job up to that point. You are also responsible for a 5% cancellation fee, which is five percent of your total order. Can I Cancel My Order? Yes! You may cancel your order if the apparel has not been ordered, but you are responsible for processing fees, restocking costs and any other expenses incurred by us between the time we recieved your payment and the cancellation request was received. Can you sew custom tags into my shirts? We do not do custom tags or the sewing for custom tags, but if you know someone with a sewing machine and some time on their hands, you can buy custom tags from a number of companies online. google it! Back to top

Can you PRINT tags onto the inside collar of my shirts? We CAN do it, but it’s pretty expensive and complex. Here’s the deal… Every shirt sold in the US is required to include care instructions, sizes and the country of origin. Because most shirts we get (excluding American-made sihrts) are manufactured in a variety of countries, printing a tag on the inside collar can be pretty expensive because you would need a separate screen for each country/size combination. Plus! often, most ink/fabric combinations will let the ink bleed through the back of the shirt, so you end up with the ghost of a reversed image on the back of your shirt. All that said, if you still want to do it, we’re happy to give it a shot for you! When does the clock start for my job’s turnaround time? The clock starts as soon as our customer approves the proof or orders the product . We need payment up front and artwork before we can start processing your order. So if you’re in a hurry, make sure you’ve got those items ready to go so your shirt printing order isn’t delayed.