Promotional Products Buying Guides
How to guides and expert advice for ordering custom apparel and promotional products. We’ll walk you through all the details.
New Survey Reveals What Gifts Employees Really Want for the Holidays
With the holiday clock ticking, business managers are quickly trying to figure out the best holiday gifts to get their employees. The stakes can feel huge. After all, good gifts go a long way towards building loyalty and retention, with more than three-quarters of employees saying it makes them more likely to stay with their [...]
Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy This Holiday Gift for Your Employees, Says Survey
The holiday rush is upon us and employers are trying to lock in what gifts they’ll give their employees. At Custom Ink, we know it’s a joyful, though stressful, time for managers, who are challenged with finding meaningful gifts that appeal to everyone. Get it right, and you’re not just checking a box. [...]
The Best Branded Gifts for Corporate Clients This Holiday Season
If you’re planning holiday gifts for clients, you want to be sure that the gesture strengthens your business relationships (and that the gifts aren’t immediately discarded or become clutter). We have been helping our corporate customers create the perfect branded holiday gifts for years. We’ve asked several of our internal experts [...]
How to Make Custom “I ❤️” T-Shirts: Ideas, Inspiration, and Design Tips
The “I ❤️ NY” shirt has been one of the most copied designs in history since Milton Glaser created it in 1977. The format is brilliant in its simplicity: three elements, infinite possibilities. Our Design Lab has everything you need to build your own version for any group, event, or inside joke — and it takes about five [...]
How to Create the Perfect Custom T-shirt
If you’re overwhelmed by the thought of designing the perfect custom t-shirt for your team, group, or family, let us help. It can be hard to know where to start, so we’ve broken the process down into simple steps that you can follow and be confident that when you receive your custom shirts, they’ll be exactly what you need. By the end of [...]
Custom T-Shirts with a Face on Them: How to Create Personalized Shirts with Faces
There’s no conversation starter quite like a custom t-shirt featuring a photo of someone’s face. Whether you’re surprising a friend on their milestone birthday, sending off the groom-to-be in style, or honoring a loved one’s memory, photo face t-shirts become meaningful keepsakes that get people talking and laughing. In [...]
Custom T-Shirt Weights: Heavyweight, Medium Weight, and Lightweight
Whether you’re ordering for summer events, team uniforms, or year-round wear, choosing the right t-shirt weight makes all the difference. So which is the right weight? Our t-shirts range from 4 oz. to 9 oz. (this indicates the weight of a square yard of the shirt fabrics). Key Takeaways T-shirt weight, measured in ounces per square [...]
Screen Printing Custom T-Shirts
We’re printing perfectionists and that starts with deciding how to customize your t-shirt or other apparel. We choose the best printing method (screen printing or digital printing) based on the needs of your unique project (such as the product material, design, and numbers of colors). With screen printing, we use a stencil (or [...]