Guides for Getting a Custom Order Right
Practical guides for ordering custom apparel: artwork files, design legibility, sizing, colors, pricing, print care, and event timing.
Most problems with a group order trace back to one of six things: the artwork file, the design itself, the size run, the color pairing, the budget, or the calendar. Each of these covers one of them properly.
Before you design
- Preparing Artwork Files for Printing - PNG, JPG, or SVG, why a JPG puts a white box behind your logo on a colored shirt, and what to do when the only copy of your logo is on an old shirt.
- What Makes a Group Shirt Design Readable - A shirt is read from across a gym, not at arm's length. Most designs fail on that alone.
Choosing the garment
- Custom Apparel Size Guide - How each of the eleven garments fits, and how to break a tie between two sizes.
- Youth XL vs Adult Small - Real flat measurements, the price and print-area differences, and a two-minute way to pick for a tween, teen or mixed group.
- Custom Apparel Color Guide - Picking a shirt color your ink will actually read against.
- Hoodie vs. T-Shirt for Group Orders - Season, budget, and how long people keep wearing each.
- Custom Apparel Pricing Explained - Published prices instead of a quote, and how bulk prices work.
- T-Shirt and Hoodie Prices, Compared Model for Model - Our prices for the same tees, hoodies, crewnecks and long sleeves next to Custom Ink, RushOrderTees, Vistaprint and more.
- What 24 custom shirts cost in 2026 - The same comparison as a dated study: one quotable table for 24 shirts, and the method.
Ordering and after
- How Long Custom Shirts Take - Print time, free or faster shipping, the dates your cart shows, and how to count back from an event.
- Collect Shirt Sizes and Names With One Link - Each person puts in their own size, and the name or number to print, for one order you pay for.
- PTA and Booster Club Shirts: Two Ways to Order - Collecting a size run from a group without becoming the bottleneck.
- Quotes, Purchase Orders and Invoices - A quote PDF from your cart for a purchase order, then paying by card or by invoice.
- Ship One Order to Several Addresses - Up to 10 addresses on one order, each with its own parcel and tracking.
- Personalized Mugs With Names - One design on every mug, tumbler or notebook, with a different name on each.
- Washing and Caring for a Printed Shirt - What actually makes a print crack, and how to slow it down.
Still deciding what you need at all? How it works covers the four steps end to end, and the FAQ answers the short questions. Or just start describing what you want - designing is free and costs nothing until you check out.