replica football shirts are big business and
teams change shirts every year to generate fresh yearly income
some teams make an extremely massive amount of money
by putting extremely high markup on their shirts and the printing on the
back but what if i told you that you don't
have to pay the rip off prices what if i told you that you could do
this at a fraction of the price at home well if that's the case you've
come to the right place nin explains the complete football shirt
printing guide how to print shirts at home step one
buy the lettering rather than pay through the nose to have the shirt
customized at a club shop there are companies online that will
sell you lettering at a fraction of the price
especially if you're after lettering from a previous season or you want a
custom name and number i bought this michael carrick kit for
just 3.99 which beats the almost 20 pounds that
you'll get charged at the mega store it also comes as one sheet so that's
handy when it comes to spacing up the letters
because i don't have to step two heat press or iron i'm going to show you
how to apply lettering with both a heat press and an ordinary household iron
heat presses are easy to acquire on ebay and i highly recommend that you buy one
if you're planning to do several shirts as the consistency is much better
that said if you don't want to buy one i'll teach you the same method
with an ordinary household iron step three
information you're probably going to be asking me whereabouts do the lettering
go on the shirt exactly in short most leads will hand out spec
sheets indicating exactly where to place the lettering and at what temperature to
apply it and for how long this isn't a closely
guarded secret it's freely available information that
you can download or you can find by ringing your favorite club
or even asking the people at your local sports shop
when in doubt use the six centimeter formula
that's six centimeters from the bottom of the collar to the top of the
lettering and six centimeters from the bottom of
the letter to the top of the numbers for kids shirts that's four centimeters
and four centimeters if it doesn't look right you can adjust
them by up to one centimeters each way but as long as they're equal
it should look about right and sleeve badges should be roughly three
centimeters from the top of the cuff step four
dry fit before you even switch the heat press or iron on
place the lettering and measure it up if it doesn't look right
now is the time to make your adjustments generally i find that the six centimeter
rule works for most of my shirts but on some of the xxl ones or goalie
shirts they might need an extra half to a full centimeter extra
if i'm in doubt i'll contact the actual team to see how they do it
step 5 using a heat press place the shirt
so this might take a while to get your shirt on the heat press
and the reason why i want you to take your time with this one is because you
want to ensure that the shirt is placed on the heat press
absolutely correctly and evenly this makes putting the lettering on
pretty easy work so make sure that the thing is completely flat
next i want you to place the lettering in place so here i've got my michael
carrick sheet where the numbers and letters are spaced
for me that's very handy and i'm just going to try and place it
in roughly the area that i want it you might have to do a quite a lot of
adjusting before you actually get out the tape measure once you've got
it in place measure and measure again make sure that
it is roughly the correct distance from the tip of the collar
as there's no going back at this point take your time
adjust and readjust if you have to i'd rather you spend five minutes on this
rather than get the entire shirt wrong once it's definitely in place and you're
absolutely happy with it press down on the heat press generally
the time is anywhere between 20 and 30 seconds
and up to 170 degrees celsius but check with your lettering provider because
they will actually provide you the instructions
as to how long to press for and at what temperature
once the time's up lift it up immediately and automatically check
there's no loose bits hanging off this lettering looks absolutely fine but
you might have to do it again for a second time wait for it to cool
down a little bit before you pull it off the heat press
and whilst it's still relatively warm but not when it's boiling hot
that's the point where you can peel away the backing paper
hold down one corner of the shirt and pull the corner away making sure that
you pull the paper in a parallelish fashion and make sure
that the lettering stays on i'm feeling all the way around the
letters just to make sure that the lettering is actually applied
if it's still not stuck on properly you might have to run it through the heat
press again sleeve badges follow the same procedure
put the shirt on the machine put the sleeve badge roughly in the
right place so it's roughly three centimeters from the tip of the collar
that's a bit too short there let's put it back up there
it doesn't look completely right and i think i messed this one up because
i reckon i should have put this respect badge right in the middle of the sleeve
there but i went with what the guideline
suggested with the champions league patches on
this side they definitely look correct once you've got it in place press it
down and you'll probably need to up the temperature and all the time
because sleeve badges are generally very very thick
once you lift off make sure that the sleeve patches don't have any raised
corners like this one up there if so repeat hey
dumbass i don't have a heat press what do i do now
okay you can actually do the same thing with an ordinary household iron
so to start you need to iron your shirt first to make sure that it's completely
flat here i'm using a manchester united shirt
and it has the word jones on it but it doesn't have his number four
i've decided to buy an extra number four and decide to completely finish
customizing this shirt so what you want to do is you want to
place the lettering roughly where it's supposed to be
and measure the distance between the top of the number and the bottom of the
letters i pre-measured this so i know exactly
where it's supposed to be next you want to cover it in either a
piece of paper or a sheet of teflon and you want to iron it for about 30
seconds to a minute at maximum temperature this is the first
pass and once it's cooled down a little bit
i want you to do it again but this time really press down hard
on the material so notice the creases in the paper here
i'm actually pressing really really hard onto the teflon
which in turn is transferring the heat onto the number four
you might have to do this three or even possibly four times
and this is why i recommend using a heat press because you can have this done
literally with one press whereas with a household iron you might have to do it
three or four times so let it cool down for a little bit and
then once it's still warm you can peel away the teflon to reveal
the numbers just like that and here's the final result pretty good
oh no nin i've made a mistake well if you've made a mistake it's not the
end of the world but it is a pain in the backside
take for example this sleeve badge it came to me
with the champions league sleeve the wrong way around it's actually supposed
to be this way so what i want you to do if there is a
mistake and you need to take a patch off or a piece of lettering off
is that you need to heat it with an iron you'll need to get it pretty hot
and once it's hot enough you can actually start peeling it away
now peel until you feel a lot of resistance and obviously if you feel a
lot of resistance don't do it anymore literally go back with an iron and
repeat the process so heat up the patch and pull away it might leave some glue
marks and you definitely won't be able to use the patch anymore
so you'll need to buy a new one but this is how you rectify mistakes
on a football shirt alternatively you can spray chemicals to the back of
the patch i tend to find that using brake and
clutch cleaner dissolves the glue you can spray it on and it actually
dissolves the glue and then the patch generally falls away
but do this at your own risk previously i made a video complaining about
manchester united refusing to print beckham number seven on the back of my
shirt and i actually found somebody who
actually created a beckham nameplate for me
so with the number seven shirt that i actually bought from the mega store
which i put into place and lo and behold within about 30 seconds
here it is the thing that the megastore refused to do for me
i managed to do myself and this is some of the finished products that
i've done within the hour that i used the heat press
this david de gea shirt i've managed to put sleeve badges on quite a lot of my
old football shirts and i also managed to do the david
beckham thing and put michael carrick and the sleep patches on this third
shirt all at a fraction of the price of what
it would cost to take it at a mega store or sports shop
remember do this at your own risk but if you follow the instructions
you'll pretty much get it right it's not exactly rocket science
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