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I finally got the opportunity to create a 2-color shirt with vinyl today.
The fire department wanted to see the quality of my work for their tees, with the possibility of having many repeat orders. Apparently they're tough on their tees and wear them out quickly.
Anyhow, I still have some thermoflex plus laying around and luckily it was in the colors they needed....white and red.
I didn't take photos unfortunately, but the tees turned out GREAT! I was so proud of me on this one. I figured on ruining one shirt at least, but I got it on the first try.
The shirts were navy blue, then white vinyl with red on top. Pretty slick stuff!!!!
those colors do look great, i work for the fd and a started doing some tees for myself and now i do anywhere from 15-30 tees a week, at a meeting one night i sold 35 tees , i just take the sample shirts and i take the orders and have it to them in 1-2 days, i lot of guys like how nice clean and bright they look compared to screen printed shirts, well good luck and prepare to be busy
Oh yes Bill the boys in any FD are very loyal once you do good business with them, in my younger days I catered food to a local FD and they would call me every time the word spread needless to say it was the better part of my business.
I'm hoping to know about the order after today. A friend who works there got me the opportunity to quote it, and I always like to give a sample whenever possible.
If it pans out, I'm hoping this will be the boost I needed to get everything rolling in the right direction.
I'm also very loyal to my customers. I try to take care of those who take care of me. They'll be getting a few freebies along the way if I get the job.
I was just "volunteered" to make a shirt for my Dad's friends' bowling team.
They just want an orange tee with their team name on the back, that was all the info I was given. From there I was told to just "come up with something". LOL I love that kind of work.
SO....I say all that to get to my point. I'm doing White pins being busted in pieces with the team name in Neon Pink and using that same pink to put the stripes on the neck of the pins. I'm going out to get the shirt later today and I WILL take photos of that one! In fact, I won't even fire up the heat press until the camera is within my reach.
Bill, if you get that order to do more shirts, take a few pictures I for one would like to see the finished product, it sounds like something that might be a pretty easy sell to any local fire Department-Pat
So how do you do 2 color? Also I can't get my US Cutter to cut graphics. Any ideas. I don't have Illustrator. I tried to use Clipart "Vinyl ready" EPS but it would not recognize it. I've been trying to get help all day. Anyone have advice.
It's a matter of doing one color then layering your next color on top.
Your USCutter should have come with software for cutting, mine has Signblazer Elements. When I open that program, I import my image, then change it to monochrome, and then vectorize it. Cuts just fine from there.
You may not be converting the image to monochrome and vectorizing it, I know I wasn't when I first got mine.
My first 2 color vinyl shirt 
