Custom t-shirts, custom polos and custom hats from Omaha Promos. These are among the very best staples for any company or non-profit by way of increasing brand awareness and getting your logo out in the public eye. Custom decorated clothing, corporate wear and even select uniforms provide some of the best ROI for your marketing dollar too!
In this post, Omaha Promos seeks to provide all your decorating options by way of custom t-shirts. You have a ton of options, so here's a jumping off point.
The Shirt Itself
First off, the boxy, hot, stiff cotton t-shirt is going by the wayside these days, with more and more clients looking to poly-cotton and performance wicking and/or anti-microbe blends or super soft pima cotton in varying weights for their custom t-shirt orders. There are literally dozens of styles of custom t-shirts available from Omaha Promos as well, e.g. unisex, child-sizes, v-neck and scoop-neck, baby-doll and crew neck, jerseys and so forth. We will put you in the perfect garment for your marketing promotion even before we talk decorating options.
Decorating Options: Screen Printing
Screen printing (aka silk screening) is one of the oldest methods of printing graphics onto a t-shirt. It involves thick inks applied to the top of the custom shirt and is a process best used in shirt decorating projects with only one or two colors. Screen printing from Omaha Promos is a cost effective (and still attractive) method of decorating custom shirts for your employees or fans, so if you have a big t-shirt project, it's a super way to stretch your advertising dollar.
Decorating Options: Direct-to-Garment (DTG) Printing
Direct-t0-Garment or DTG printing has only been around the promotional products and custom shirt industries since 2005 when Brother rolled out the first ever DTG printer. Since then, vendors selling custom clothing, custom corporate apparel and uniforms in Omaha and elsewhere have jumped on the bandwagon - and for good reason - the precision of the custom shirts is much higher with DTG rather than screen printing. With DTG printing, an inkjet printer applies ink directly onto a t-shirt. DTG uses special inks which are absorbed by the fibers of the garment, leaving you with a stunning and highly detailed custom decorated garment. Omaha Promos DTG technique even allow you to apply photographs to a shirt! DTG may not be the most cost effective option for simple t-shirts or very large runs, but for smaller quantities when style and detail are required, DTG is the way to go!
Decorating Options: Heat Transfer
Heat transfer is yet another custom shirt decorating option Omaha Promos provides. Think of heat transfer as a big iron applying a special vinyl transfer onto your custom shirt or other garment. Each thermal transfer film has its own recommended time, temperature and pressure settings for just the right adhesion and final look. Omaha Promos has numerous heat transfer films to choose from in hundreds of different colors and patterns. It's a unique and, we think, under-appreciated shirt decorating option.
Decorating Options: Embroidery
Custom embroidered Polo shirts from Omaha Promos are an awesome way to advertise your business or provide a big morale boost through the adoption of Casual Friday for your staff. Great embroidery starts with a high quality digitizing of your company's logo. Next and also of great importance is stitch count! Stitch count is simply the number of stitches required to replicate your logo or design on your garment. The higher the stitch count, the higher the quality. Just keep in mind the more stitches required to finish a garment, the more expensive your project will likely be.
Custom t-shirt, custom polo and custom hat decorating are all staples of Omaha Promos. Give us a call today to find out more and to take advantage of special January 2018 savings!
