T Shirts With Slogans.

[Barsel]

I often see people wearing T-Shirts with written slogans on them, but where do they get them from?
Can you choose what you want on the T-Shirt?
TIA

[Smowball]

Yes just go on EBay and there’s hundreds of companies that do them - I’ve ordered them many times x

[Barsel]

Thanks smow,what do you put in the search area?

[tonyav]

From places like this, Barsel.
https://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/

[andy-hughes]

I love ones that only some people will understand - there's one you can get with a picture of a canoe on it, and the caption reads - "Row faster, I can hear banjos!" which will bring a smile to anyone that has seen the film Deliverance, and be meaningless to everyone else.

[JimF]

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[Barsel]

I'm trying to work out how you show them what you want on the T Shirt. I was hoping to choose an image I have on my computer, but can't see where it shows you to do that. Is that how it's done?

[ummmm]

I got a t-shirt done for my ex. It just said 'plastic'

He found it funny :-)

[Buenchico]

Simply search for 'personalised T-shirts'. There are loads of firms which will print text onto them but you get more flexibility with your design if you use a DTP (or image processing) program to create your own design, save it as a jpeg file and then upload it to a firm that prints photos, rather than just text, onto T-shirts.

SmartPhoto offer an excellent service. You can either totally design the whole thing yourself or taking an existing design, which incorporates text, and modify it to your requirements. e.g. https://tinyurl.com/y6d2yk2c or https://tinyurl.com/yy6vkq8s

If you're interested in their service, start here:
https://www.smartphoto.co.uk/photo-gifts/t-shirt-with-photo
Complete your basic requirements on the right and then click on 'Go to designs'. You'll then be presented with a wide range of options. (I used them recently to print a T-shirt for a young friend's 11th birthday. I was very impressed with the result!)

[Buenchico]

PS: Here's the design I created for my friend. (He loves his ragdoll cats, so I found a suitable picture on the web and imported it into a DTP document, which I then exported as a jpeg and uploaded to SmartPhoto): https://ibb.co/YkwT9Hm

[Barsel]

Thanks Chris. I will have a look at those links to see if it's what I can manage. I am just looking for a T-Shirt that I can put text on, no photo. My brother has just sent me an email showing T-shirts with slogans on that made me laugh and I just thought, I'd like one of those. A sample, I am who I am, your approval isn't needed./I may be wrong, but I doubt it./Patience is a virtue, it's just not one of my virtues./ I'm great in bed, I can sleep all day./ I think my favourite has to be, At my funeral, take the bouquet off my coffin and throw it into the crowd to see who's next. Perhaps not to everyone's taste, but they made me laugh.

[ummmm]

Barsel - look on Amazon. I've recently bought a few from there. Just joke ones.

- I make beer disappear
- I'm not lazy, I just like doing nothing
- With a face as good as this who needs hair?

[Bobbisox1]

I buy our friend a few t shirts when we go to Lanzarote ( he lives there) all with meaningful slogans on them

[Barsel]

ummmm, I think it might take time to find one with text already on it that I feel would suit me, so I might just go with Chris's suggestion where you can put your own text on. I will look on Amazon as there might just be one there that I like.
Thanks everyone.

[bhg481]

I seem to remember that you could buy special printer paper that you could print your own picture on and then iron it onto a T shirt. Does this still exist?

[Buenchico]

For those type of slogans, you could use the design in my second link above. (There are lots of others which are suitable too. You don't need to commit yourself to anything just to browse around them; you just have to fill in the basic information about what you're looking for and then see if anything there takes you fancy. If it does, click through to see how to add your own text instead of that in the illustration).

SmartPhoto's prices are very competitive and their designs make their T-shirts look far better than those from firms which just print 'bare' text onto a T-shirt. From the one T-shirt I've ordered from them so far, the quality seems to be very good too. (Don't expect your order to arrive in a rush though. Allow a week or two for it to get to you as the printing is actually done in Belgium).

[Buenchico]

Yes, Bhg41:

Amazon.com User Recommendation

[bhg481]

Thanks Buenchico - no interest to me as I only have a laserjet printer and don't wear T shirts, but DIY methods are a lot more convenient and instant than having someone print them for you.

[Barsel]

Thanks Chris.I'll have a look again tomorrow when I'll have more time to experiment.

[Buenchico]

. . . and also a lot more fiddly (from what I've heard from people who've tried using that special paper), Bhg41, with the reliability of the results being in doubt and with some reports of people finding that the designs come off easily in the wash.

Further, those photo papers can only be used on light-coloured shirts, whereas you can choose dark-coloured shirts when you order from printing companies.

[pixie374]

As Tonyav says, we use spreadshirt for work. You choose text (and pics if you like). They are much cheaper than vista and don't shrink when washed.