If you’re familiar with screen print design, you know that there can be some limiting factors to how you design, and what you can print on garments. Each color requires the production of another plate, and generally, printing on certain colors proves challenging. Certain shapes, lines, and blends become challenging if not impossible on certain color garments.

No color restrictions - just set your canvas size!

When you’re designing for the Choice100, you can throw all of those color restrictions to the wind! This should let you concentrate on designing great shirts rather than worrying about limitations of the production process.

All you need to do is set up your “canvas” of choice for a 15″ x 19″ printing area. Our high-tech, direct-to-garment printing process lets us print in FULL color, with hard lines, soft lines, blends, and curves of nearly any shape and size. Even photos!

What can we print on?

Well, we’re here to print t-shirts. You aren’t restricted to the color of the shirt; we can print onto darks, lights, almost any color fabric that we can order from one of our t-shirt suppliers. If you have a specific shirt color that you’d like to print on, include it in your submission and we’ll do our best to match it.

One small catch is the AREA on which we can print. If you look above at the printable area, there is a little room for flex but we aren’t currently able to print designs that wrap around the side of the shirt. Sorry, maybe in the future!

What can I use to design?

The easiest way to put your artwork on a shirt is to submit it as a digital file. Ideally, a digital vector created in Illustrator or Photoshop. Vector art will keep its quality best when going through our process. However any image sized to 15″ x 19″ and saved to a PDF, Adobe Illustrator (AI) or Photoshop (PSD) file with CS2 or lower compatibility, or even a TIFF. Be sure that the background is transparent if it is meant to be in the final product!

Once I submit, who owns the work?[*updated* 1/18/08]

We understand that licensing is a common concern for artists. Our generous License Terms puts a great deal of the control in your hands. Submitting a piece of art to us does not automatically revoke your right to use the artwork anywhere else. Once the shirt design is accepted to the Choice100, we will have exclusive rights to print the design on t-shirts only and certain non-exclusive marking and promotion rights. If you want to use the art elsewhere, on a poster for example, you may do so as you wish.
If your design falls out of the Choice100 ranks and we are no longer selling it, we return all reproduction rights, regardless of print medium, back to you as an artist.