You know, personalizing and customizing your own t-shirts these days is literally a walk in the park these days considering the availability of technology. With a little bit of ingenuity, a picture, Adobe Photoshop (maybe you don’t even need it if your needs are simple), heat transfer and a quality t-shirt is all you need to create your own clothing! With that said, you could take tons of pictures and iron them on to your own clothes or brand new plain t-shirts that you can grab at during warehouse sales will do the trick, quite honestly. In fact, a lot of PC-quick kids and teens are doing it on their own too with their own computer and printer.
Now, the problem and disadvantage of doing your own heat transfer thing on your t-shirt is this….to get it to stick long enough past your next birthday! Most of them don’t last past the week, let me tell you that, and it’s a sorely disappointing experience! You could be all excited about something you created and ironed on to your t-shirt and quite suddenly, after the third wash, it’s a plain white t-shirt all over again. ‘Whatever happened to the heat transfer job?”, you ask and you look at the almost-brand-new t-shirt. The problem with normal heat transfer sheets that you can get off your computer or clothing store is that they are not MADE to last! It doesn’t seal in the creative design onto the t-shirt properly. Commercial industrial heat transfers lasts longer because of the quality. The problem is that unless you get in bulk, it is difficult trying to get your hands on commercial heat transfers.
But you know what? To counter this problem, I heard that some really smart people have created various models of inkjet printers or laser printers made specifically for this purpose. They’re not cheap…that’s the catch. But if you think you have something worth exploring, I say why not?
Using heat transfer for your t-shirts for fun is great for the kids because it gets them doing something creative and they get to showcase it to the rest of the world when they wear it. However, if you’re trying to personalize t-shirts for your own use and in small number, you could be better off getting someone to do it for you.
Go to www.cuztomchix.com for some personalized and customized t-shirts. I promise you that the quality is really good! Well, if the website’s not up yet, please bookmark it and come back later, ok?
