So I figured in this post I could walk you through the process of designing and buying your t-shirts with customink.com. Now...just so you know this isn't an advertisement .... this is simply a company I really like and wanted to share.
So the first thing you need to do is make sure you are on the right part of the website. If you are from the USA you can go to the regular site customink.com. If you are from Canada go to the Canadian section at http://www.customink.com/canada/. All other countries can go through customink.com.
So follow these steps to make beautiful, professional looking gear. You select the product and design it. Then the custom ink crew comes into the picture touches up anything, processes your order and sends it to you just the way you want it!
Click the orange 'get started' button and you will be taken to the product catalog. Here you can choose from a variety of products from t-shirts, to sweats, to hats, to other giveaway items. Click the product that you'd like to customize...for this sample I've chosen t-shirts.
Once you click on the product you'd like you will be directed to pick the type you'd like. In the t-shirt category you pick what kind of shirt you'd like. For camper shirts I'd go with Gildan because it's the cheapest but pick whichever kind you'd like. Once you click on the orange 'pick a colour' button you will be take to a place where you choose your colour.
Here, you will see all the colour options you can get in that t-shirt style. Notice that some of the colours are only available in orders of 6 or more shirts. Since you are creating a camp shirt this shouldn't be a problem. So go ahead pick your favourite colour - don't worry you can change this later if you change your mind.
After picking the colour you will be directed to the customink.com customizer section. Note: I'm not sure if it's actually called the customizer but I really like that word so I dub it that. Anywho, in the customizer you can add text, change the colour of the shirt, add images, add names, design the back, save, and get a quote. Honestly, it's super easy to use so don't get overwhelmed.
In the customizer (which I just realized is called the lab - but I still want to call it the customizer) you can do so many things. On the left hand side you will see the 'get started' section. I decided to start by adding some text.
Just enter the text you want on the shirt into the box and click 'update'. Now you can change the font, change the size, the text colour, shape and much more.
So once you find the font, colour, shape etc. that you'd like you can click the text and drag it to the perfect spot on the shirt. Yep, it's that's easy.
You can even rotate the text so it doesn't lie straight. This is a great effect to add some extra emphasis.
Now that you're done adding text you might want to add some images or pictures. Custom Ink has tons of pictures and images you can use. Search their huge inventory till you find something you like. Click the image you'd like and it will add it to your shirt. Then you can change the colour and size of it. Drag the image to where you want it on the shirt. Yep, it's that easy!
Now if you don't find any images on Custom Ink that you'd like or you have another image or camp logo that you'd like to add to your shirt you can always upload your own image. I love this function because then you can really make it your own. We did this with our shirts and they turned out great!
After uploading your image you're going to have to do colour selection. Try to pick the colours that are in your image. Don't worry if they aren't perfect...the custom ink crew will help you with that later. The reason you have to pick your colours is so that you can get a more accurate price quote later.
Upload as many pictures as you like, resize them, and drag them where you want them. Yep, it's that easy!
Then when you are done, in the bottom left click quote. Put in the number of shirts you'd like and what size and the customizer will generate a quote for you. Note: that it will provide the quote in a per shirt price and overall price. Also the more shirts you order the lower the price will be. Also note: this is just a quote...it might go up or down after the custom inkers look at it.
Custom Ink also has other cool functions. Like personalized names and numbers. What a cool idea for a baseball team or counsellor names or whatever else your heart desires.
You can also ask them to do half your design in a different colour t-shirt. we did this for our camp so that we could have the camper shirts in one colour and the counsellor shirts in another colour.
One of the other cool functions they have is design ideas. Yep! They have design ideas for a variety of different t-shirt reasons. Not so creative? Their design ideas are perfect for creating professional looking but super easy to make shirts. At the top of the screen just pick ideas and you will be taken to a design idea section where you can browse over a 100 something ideas (just made up that number...but there are a lot of ideas). Find the shirt you like...click on it...change the colour...change the camp name...change whatever your hear desires...or keep it the same...and you've got an awesome looking shirt in no time!
With such an easy website and customizer and design ideas, how can you go wrong? YOU CAN'T! So many of my friends and colleges have used this site and thought it was wonderful....try it out...it's free to fiddle around on...and when you find the shirt you love it's as easy as can be.
So my day camp directors...enjoy fiddling and let me know if you have any questions. I'll post pictures of our shirts as soon as they come. Ours are suppose to get here on Friday. Yay!
Toodle Do,
Ditzy Day Camp Director
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