What you get
The 18000 crewneck with the transfer already on it. A flat chest with no zip, no hood cord and no pocket is the easiest surface in this whole catalogue, which is why the print looks better here than anywhere else.
What to send
10 to 12 inches wide at 300 DPI for a chest print. Fleece has a pile, so hairline detail below about half a point will sink into it — we will tell you if yours does.
Worth knowing
Fleece is pressed twice: once to lay the transfer, once through parchment to knock the sheen back. We do both. A single press is what makes home-done fleece look plastic.
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.
What to send
- PNG on a transparent background, 300 DPI at print size. PDF, TIFF and SVG also work. Not JPG — it has no transparency and the white box around your design would print.
- Send it the way it should read. Mirroring happens in our print software; do it as well and it prints backwards.
- sRGB. Opaque colour where you want colour, transparent where you want the garment to show.
- No hairline strokes. Judge line weight at final print size: thin lines print, then do not survive pressing and washing.
- A quarter inch between pieces on a gang sheet, half an inch from the edge. No crop or registration marks — they just print.
Every file is looked at before it prints. If something will disappoint you, we email before pressing print, not after. The full artwork guide.
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.
Custom-printed to your file, so it is not returnable for change of mind — that is the standard position on made-to-order goods, and it is why we check every file before printing.
Report within 7 days with photographs. Full policy.
