Chicago in a thick, confident script with a swash running back under the word, and ILLINOIS in wide caps below. White, so it is built for dark blanks: black, navy, the deep green everyone is buying this year.
Script designs live or die on the thin connecting strokes between letters. This one has none that are too fine to hold, which is why it is in the collection and a dozen prettier scripts are not.
Eight inches wide on a tee lands the swash just above the hem of the chest area. Ten on a hoodie. Four on a cap front is too wide; use three.
How to press it
| Temperature | 285–305 °F (140–150 °C) |
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| Pressure | Medium — 60–70 PSI |
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| Cold peel | 12 seconds, then let it cool 15–20 minutes before peeling. |
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| Hot peel | 6 seconds, peel straight away, then a second press of 6 seconds. |
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| Second press | Parchment or Teflon over the design, 6 seconds. This is where the matte finish comes from. |
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| All fabrics | One set of settings covers cotton, polyester, blends and canvas. |
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Pre-press the blank first — it flattens the fabric and drives out moisture, and skipping it is the most common cause of a transfer that fails one shirt in ten. Full guide and troubleshooting table.
Turnaround and delivery
Orders with clean artwork placed on a business day print that day and go out the same afternoon.
| Chicago & collar counties | Same metro as the press — the shortest leg we run |
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| Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan | A single ground leg from Schaumburg |
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| Ohio and the near Midwest | Past the first ring, still Midwest ground |
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| Rest of the lower 48 | Cross-country ground |
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| Cost | Free over $100, flat $4.90 below it |
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We do not publish day counts — the print is ours to promise, the truck is not. Your tracking email carries the carrier's own estimate for your address. Sheets up to 24 inches ship flat between boards; longer sheets are rolled face-in and boxed. Nothing is folded. What each ground leg looks like.
If it comes out wrong
We reprint it. Print defects, the wrong size or quantity against the order, transit damage and lost parcels are all ours — reprinted on the press the same day we agree it, shipped free. Prefer the money back? Say so and it is refunded, tax and shipping included.
What we do not cover: change of mind, a file that printed exactly as sent, and pressing problems from the wrong temperature, time or a warm peel. We will help diagnose those, and if a whole batch fails with correct settings we treat it as a print defect.
Report within 7 days with photographs. Full policy.
