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 if
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