For the March Shop Partner newsletter Temple’s Tip focused on some updating items for digital direct printing.   Click here to see previous Tips from Temple.

As you may recall, in October, we released several new products to our Digital Direct printing, as well as added some additional colors to products already available. The following products were added to Digital Direct printing in all colors…

• Women’s Heather Jersey Tee
• Women’s Plus Size Wide Strap Tank
• Toddler T-Shirt
• Men’s Hemp Tee
• Unisex Tie Dye T-Shirt
• Unisex Organic Heather Tee 

Also, the following products, which had only been available in white for Digital Direct printing, were made available for printing in all colors…

• Men’s Muscle Tee
• Men’s Organic Jersey Tee
• Men’s Long Sleeve Tee
• Women’s V-Neck T-Shirt
• Women’s Spaghetti Strap Tank
• Women’s Long Sleeve Jersey Tee
• Women’s Maternity Top
• Junior’s Cap Sleeve Tee
• Junior’s Aerobic Top
• Junior’s Organic Jersey T-Shirt

Finally, the Female Longer Length tank was added for Digital Direct printing in white only.

Generally, when new products are released for Digital Direct, the existing products in your accounts are also updated from the Digital Transfer or Digital Transfer Overlay process to the Digital Direct process. However, this did not take effect with the release of products in October.

Instead, we will be updating the above products created in your account that are using the Digital Transfer or Digital Transfer Overlay process tomorrow. Some points to keep in mind for the update…

• You will want to check the pricing and your commission on these products, as Digital Direct print adds $4.50 to the cost of the product, which is $1.50 cheaper than digital images on colored apparel and $1.50 more on white apparel with digital images.
• Digital Direct uses 200 dpi, so your current uploaded digital images may appear smaller when using Digital Direct, as Digital Transfer only requires a dpi of 120. This will be apparent in Designer Shops and depends on the dpi of the original uploaded image.

We are still continuing to test Digital Direct to eventually replace all products with the new technology, so once new products are available for Digital Direct, we will let you know!

On another note…You can now grab designs from your favorite Designers profile page! Under each Marketplace product submission, you can locate the Profile for the designer, by clicking their name. Once on their profile, you can click Designs and grab some of your favorite designs to include in your Designer shop or use in the future for products in your Classic shop!

Happy Creating,
Temple

Of course I didn’t forget that today is St. Patrick’s Day - I thought I would mark this very joyous green occasion here on the blog by showing off some of our shirts in celebration.  This is my friend Pat on right.  Pat and 20 of his closest friends were sporting these fantastic t-shirts on Saturday morning, they started the festivities off at, oh 8 am for a pre St. Patrick’s Day Parade celebration.

Pat and his friends have been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day for years, in college they made t-shirts for their annual party.  Since many friends we reuiniting back in Pittsburgh for the weekend Pat called me up about some t-shirts.  Pat was going for the beer can label look and luckily he let me talk him into adding the silver flex to the design.  The silver and white on green look great.

Please share your St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts with us! Leave a link in the comments or email me lpa - at - Spreadshirt.com.

You probably already know that Spreadshirt offers flex and flock printing, but you may not know that we even have some rhinestone designs too.  Just in time for the greenest holiday of them all - we bring to you the Rhinestone Shamrock.  Now you can show your Irish pride in dazzling style.

Click Here to go to the rhinestone shamrock in the marketplace.

I think this looks snazzy on the side of the distressed hoodie.

Hood printing is now available on some of our more light weight hooded items - junior’s sleeveless sport hoodie and the junior’s long sleeve hooded tee.

I am excited to try his hood printing. I think this is a great way to use the valuable real estate on the back of the hooded shirts. I don’t usually put things on the back of the hooded sweatshirts because the hood covers the printing but I am hoping I can position the text or design on the hood so that when the hood is down it add something to read to the back.