How to tell a shirt is polyester before you buy it (60-second checklist)
Photos won't tell you the fibre. The listing will — if you know which seven lines to read. A one-minute checklist that works on any store, including ours.
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Who actually prints all-over on 100% cotton? A map of the AOP market
Ask "where can I buy an all-over print cotton tee" and you get a list of stores that mostly print on polyester. Here is how the market actually splits — and the three questions that sort any store in a minute.
The only thing we keep in stock is cloth
Most print-on-demand keeps a warehouse of blank shirts and prints on them. We keep cloth. Here is what changes when the garment does not exist until you order it.
File specifications
Two ways to hand us a design: front and back artwork we lay out for you, or a print-ready 8114×8114 canvas you author yourself. Sizes, layout anatomy, safe zone, seams.
WYSIWYW: what you see is what you wear
Programmers got WYSIWYG in the eighties. Clothing never had one — until a photo out of a plane window became the fabric of a shirt.
Seamless patterns: what they're for, and where they break
Tiling, scale, clustering and the ±2% seam shift: what a repeating pattern needs to survive being turned into clothing.
Is all-over print always polyester? No — but usually yes
Most all-over print is polyester because sublimation only bonds to synthetic fibre. Reactive dye bonds to cotton instead — how to tell what you're buying.
Why a made-to-order shirt takes weeks, and what those weeks are
12–27 days to the US door, and here is what happens inside them: we print the fabric first, then cut and sew the garment from it.
The category everyone is fighting over is finished. The one next to it is empty.
Sellers say the margins are gone, buyers say prints crack. Same problem: DTG hit its ceiling. What the category next door offers designers — and what it costs them.
Printing a vintage wash instead of beating it into the fabric
Stone wash costs water and damages the fibre. Printing the worn look instead gives you a shirt that looks a decade old and hasn't been abused once.
Why printed shirts crack — and why some never do
Cracking is a property of films, not of prints. The two families of garment printing, what each is good at, and the honest limits of ours.
Designer FAQ
Money, rights, files, moderation, payouts — the questions designers ask us by email, answered in one place.
How to wash an all-over printed tee (shorter answer than you expect)
Cotton cycle up to 60°C, tumble dry, iron — that's the entire care list. When the colour is bonded into the fibre, there is no print to protect.
How to name your design (we won't rename it for you)
The title is the product name, the search text and, occasionally, a legal problem. We don't rename designers' work — which puts the weight on you.
Designing for a whole garment, not a rectangle
Full-canvas removes the frame that made chest prints work. Rhythm, scale, seams and the 3260×4096 window that stays whole.
Four ways to make a full-canvas print (and what each one costs you)
Drawing, vector, generative tools, photography — four routes to a full-canvas print, and what each one is good and bad at on a real production line.
What we can and can't print: intellectual property for designers
You keep the copyright. But a brand name in a design title can pull an entire catalogue out of Google Shopping — here is what we can and can't print, and why we are strict about it.
What reactive printing does to your artwork
Eight dye channels, no white ink, and a safe zone smaller than your canvas: what actually happens to a file between your screen and a cotton garment.