Tools Of The Trade

Please Watch This!

Tools and Services

Welcome to our comprehensive Tools and Resources page, your ultimate destination for all things essential to kickstart your journey into the t-shirt business. Whether you’re seeking guidance on design software, sourcing materials, or mastering marketing strategies, you’ll find everything you need right here. Dive in and empower your entrepreneurial dreams with the resources that pave the way for success.”

Get The T-shirt Business Quick Start Guide

The Hardware Tools You'll Need For Your T-shirt Biz.

06 DTF Printer

Uninet 100 DTF Printer

This is new wave of the T-shirt industry. The Direct to Film AKA DTF printer. Here are few right here.

Prestige A4
Prestige R2

07 Sublimation Printer

T-shirt sublimation is a printing method that uses heat and pressure to transfer dye directly onto fabric, creating vibrant,
long-lasting designs. It allows for full-color prints with intricate details and a smooth finish, ideal for custom and personalized apparel.

Sawgrass SG 1000
Sawgrass SG500

Good Ol’ vinyl! SG 1000 is the bigger one the SG500 is the smaller less expensive model.

08 Vinyl Cutter

Cameo Silhoette 4
Siser Juliet™ 12"

Ye Ole faithful. This a tried a true method. Simple, easy and straight to the point T-shirt printing. Good Ol’ vinyl! Cameo Silhoette and the Siser Juliet 12″ are great choices.

Hardware

These are the main tangible things you'll need. Equipment to have in your home or office to get the ball rolling. Check them out!

01 Blanks

This is the very essence of the T-shirt business: the canvas, the foundational building block of any T-shirt venture.
Whether you seek soft, fitted, baggy, loose, inexpensive,
or super-premium blanks, discover the perfect canvas and let your creativity flourish from there. Check them out!

Get Our Blank T-Shirt Vendors list below

02 Heat Press

HTVront Auto-Press
Stahls Fusion IQ

These are services and platforms that are online and software based. You’re going to need this on this modern economy. 

03 Rulers

You don’t want crooked T-shirt. Get yourself a T-shirt Help Desk Precision ruler.

04 White Toner Printer

White Toner Printers are a great and very low maintenence way to get into the T-shirt Industry.

Uninet 560
Uninet 650

05 DTG Printer

DTG (Direct to garment printers). Still gives you one of the best soft hand feel prints outside of water based screen printing. High quality prints every time. The Omniprint 330TX is workhorse.

Omniprint 330TX Plus

Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links on this page contain affiliate links. If you buy through my links, I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.

Online Services You'll Need For Your T-shirt Biz.

If you’re going make you own website from scratch, you’re going to need Hostinger. This guys have made hosting a website super easy and intuitive. They also have an AI based website site creator. Check out Hostinger!

Speaking of AI (Artificial Intelligence) 10web can be used to build your entire site from just typing what you want AKA “a prompt”, is absolutely game changing. Check out 10web.io.

Online Services

These are services and platforms that are online and software based. You’re going to need this on this modern economy. 

The premiere e-commerce platform. Create a Shopify website for your brand. The easiest way to have an online star bar none.

A Print On Demand is the easiest most cost effective way to start a T-shirt business. Printful is the large POD platform

Here’s another amazing Print on Demand platform Printify.

If you going to start a T-shirt business. You’re going to need data. Research any niche with Merch Informer.

The O.G. of website builders. It’s also come a long way. WordPress is more more user-friendly than it use to be.

If you using WordPress. You need and E-commerce plugin. Woocommerce is the premiere platform and a must have.

Once you have done all this work—purchased blanks, researched your niche, designed tees, built a website, and posted to social media—you don’t want someone to come along and steal your thunder. Protect your name and logo with a trademark. Find out more info here at Trademark Engine.

Online Services You'll Need For Your T-shirt Biz.

The world will never be the same. The Midjourney AI platform is flat out extraordinary. The artwork must be seen to be believed.

This is Midjourney’s little brother. Leonardo is another AI art creation platform. It does virtually the same thing a Midjourney but it’s FREE!

Design Services

These the industry standard for design. The O.G. of the game. The design programs I ever learned were Illustrator & Photoshop and I still use them to this very day.

This fastly becoming my go to platform for T-shirt design and artwork in general. Kittl is simple and easy to use and the template library will blow you mind.

The New Kid on the block and we’re not talking about boy bands lol. Affinity is a fraction of the cost of Adobe but still packs a mean punch in terms of design software. check it out Affinity.

The platform is has become a staple. You can do almost everything. Canva is not the best for T-shirt design but great for social media.

05 Midjourney Prompt & Guide

Midjourney is nothing without good promps. We have you covered. Get this prompts now start your T-shirt business tomorrow

Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links on this page contain affiliate links. If you buy through my links, I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.

NEEd More Tools?

JOIN THE CLUB!

Get our newsletter and be posted on all the T-shirt News