Gang sheet builder
Arrange it here. Pay what an upload pays.
The builder is for the night you have eleven designs in six sizes and no patience left for nudging rectangles in Illustrator. Drop them in, set each one’s print width, and it packs the sheet as tight as the spacing rules allow. It runs in your browser, it is free, and the sheet costs the same flat $0.40 per linear inch as one you laid out yourself.
The builder is being fitted. Until it opens, the fastest route is the upload page, and if you would rather not lay the sheet out yourself, email the designs and the quantities to hello@loopdtf.com and we will pack the sheet for you at no charge. Same price, same turnaround.
How it works
- Add designs. PNGs with transparent backgrounds. Each one is checked for resolution the moment it lands, so a 72 DPI logo gets flagged before it gets printed.
- Set the width and the count. Type a print width in inches per design, and how many copies. Eleven at 3.5 inches for left chests, four at 11 inches for the fronts. Height follows the design’s own proportion.
- Pack. The builder arranges everything on a 22-inch-wide sheet with a quarter inch between pieces and tells you the length it needs. Shorter sheet, smaller bill. You can drag pieces around if you want them grouped by garment.
- Add to cart. The print file is generated on your side and attached to the order. The layout is saved with it, so a reprint of one piece next month does not mean rebuilding the sheet.
What the builder is good at, and what it is not
It is good at mixed orders: one client’s logo in four placements, a drop of six designs in three sizes each, a season’s worth of small tags. It saves you the layout time and it usually finds a tighter fit than a hand-placed sheet, which is money.
It is not a design tool. It will not fix a blurry file, recolour a logo, or knock out a white background that should have been transparent. If a design needs work before it prints, do that in the software it was made in, export a clean PNG, and then bring it here.
Sizing pieces on a sheet
Print width is the number that matters, because it is the one you measure on the garment. A few placements that come up constantly, for the adult sizes most labels run:
| Left chest | 3–4 in wide. A 3.5 in mark reads as intentional on a tee and does not crowd a pocket. |
|---|---|
| Full front | 10–12 in wide for adult, 8–9 in for youth. A 12 in print on a small tee runs into the side seams. |
| Sleeve | 2.5–3.5 in. Wider than that and it wraps out of sight. |
| Back neck tag | 2–3 in. This is where thin type and tiny registration marks get tested, so keep the strokes above 0.5 pt. |
| Hat front | 2.5–3 in wide, under 2 in tall, or it climbs the seam. |
Same price as an upload. On purpose.
Some shops charge a premium for sheets made in their builder, on the logic that the software is a service. We see it the other way: you did the arranging, on your machine, in your evening. The sheet that comes out is the same sheet. It is priced like one.