Are you ready to give corporate custom holiday printed gifts to your employees, staff, and their families to have healthy relationships?

Custom Holiday Printed Gifts

Merlin Embroidery lets you make a design that is perfect for any special occasion or personality. See the link below to select stock holiday designs from the online catalog here. There are over 900 stock embroidery designs to choose from. We can add text to stock designs, or you can email your plan. 

What is the price of custom logos?

The price for custom logos either for business or pleasure are $35 for designs that will fit within a 5″ hoop. This includes most left chest designs. Add $10 to also receive a hat-size version max height up to 2.4 inches tall. For designs larger than a 5″ hoop special setup price is $85 up to 10 inches wide, add a smaller left chest design 3-4″ wide for just $15. For full jacket back designs 10″ up to 15″ for $150, pricing that is 50% off regular price.

Are you ready to give corporate custom holiday printed gifts to your employees, staff, and their families on a special day?

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Custom embroidered golf shirts

You’ll find that our shirts are printed in full color with environmentally safe inks creating prints that are true to your branding, vibrant, and durable. You’ll love the feel of our ultra-soft premium materials. We recommend Next Level Tees for softness, colorfast, and comfort. You can be sure that your design is unique and special for your organization or event. The minimum screenprinting order is just 48 pieces. It’s okay to mix and match shirt colors and sizes.

What are the benefits of giving unique custom printed shirts to your employees, staff, and their families?

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Merlin Embroidery Roast Master Coffee custom embroidery and screenprinting since 1992

We focus on company shirts, community and church events, schools, clubs, military, police, scouts. There is something for everyone, and with a minimum of 48 shirts, you can still get great pricing starting at a $40 setup fee and $9.95 per printed shirt for premium Hanes Brand t-shirts. We also offer Fruit of the Loom, Gildan, Port Authority, and many other New Era, Nike, and Ogio. You have a massive online catalog to choose from and pick the suitable garment to make your occasion more memorable for you. Check it out here 

What is the process of getting original custom holiday printed gifts?

It is easy to get a custom holiday t-shirt designed just for you by a professional designer with Merlin embroidery. You can keep smiling as you look at all of the other holiday t-shirts that our community has created. If you are like me, you’ll enjoy imagining the group altogether, laughing and eating, enjoying the holiday spirit of giving.

Best Personalized Bulk employee appreciation gifts

When should you give custom printed gifts to your employees, staff, and their families to build health relationships?

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RESTAURANT WEAR CUSTOM EMBROIDERY MERLIN EMBROIDERY

Many businesses are offering branded appreciation gifts to their employees that they can use all year long. This is for appreciating the employee’s hard work. They’ve earned a treat. Here the clever businesses reach for screen printed garments for the employee appreciation gifts or personalized embroidery on garments the customer can bring in to embroidery, or save some money on embroidery when Merlin Supplies the garments, check out the catalog here (click on Clothing Catalog after you watch a 3-minute video about how we are different) https://merlinembroidery.net/

What is the strategy for giving corporate custom holiday printed gifts to your employees, staff, and their families?

This helps employers to promote their brands more aggressively when employees wear or use custom printed gift items. Here is the link for the promotional non-wearables catalog for pens, mugs, calendar organizers, and more. https://www.4logowearables.com/Merlin

Customized Family holiday t-shirt designs 

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Merlin Embroidery Jeremy Hall Embroidery for Grossmont High School since 1992

Some businesses go the extra mile to take their brand to the next level. They are giving employee appreciation gifts not only to the employee but to all the family members. In this case, they are ordering matching holiday shirts, which will have the same holiday designs on all the garments in different sizes that all family members can use. These holiday shirts can be screen printed or embroidered.

What should I do if I want to give my employees, staff, and their families gifts for xmas?

This is a question we hear almost every day at this time of year. It’s really simple: if you want to give your employees and staff gifts for Christmas, do it! Don’t ask me or my firm for permission, just do it. Many employers enjoy giving their employees and staff gifts for Christmas, and I know that my firm is one of them.

It is a good idea to talk with your employees and staff about your intentions for a gift exchange. If you have concerns, consider following these guidelines:

Make the exchange into a “secret Santa” type of event for Christmas.

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knowledgeable friendly staff merlin embroidery

Let each person write their name on a piece of paper with a price limit. This helps eliminate any feelings of entitlement as well as accusations of favoritism. Each person will anonymously pick out a gift for the other. They can make it themselves, buy it online or in a store or ask someone to make it for them (gotta love the creative side of crafting). The only rule is you must stick to your budget. If you want to be extra generous, you can include an additional anonymous gift for your secret Santa to keep for themself.

Many companies not only gift the printed shirts. They also gift decor ornaments for women, photo bags, xmas tree decoration, party box, birthday gifts for kids

When is the best time to give custom printed shirts?

When it’s cold out, we see lots of requests for jackets and beanie caps with embroidery. When it’s hot outside, we see more requests for custom screen printed t-shirts for outings, barbeques, and conventions. And when the sun is shining, we see requests for custom shirts with embroidery for date nights, birthdays, and anniversaries. 

The bottom line? Custom embroidered apparel is a great investment.

What are the benefits of having personalized gifts for staff members?

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MONUMENTAL RESULTS MERLIN EMBROIDERY CUSTOM EMBROIDERY

We all know that if you give a personalized gift, it would go a long way to making someone feel special. That is why giving a personalized gift as a staff appreciation gift would be a great idea. You can give them something that they would actually use and enjoy. People tend to make a strong attachment to gifts given to them by their employers. It makes them feel valued and cared for.

Generous employers who appreciate their employees don’t have to wait to order custom printing garments for the holidays. The holiday season of giving lasts all year. Stop if you will for a moment and imagine any of these holidays if you added matching shirts to the occasion, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving day, fathers day, mothers day. How would they add to the joy? Would you be more inclined to make the occasion a destination holiday? Here the sky is the limit to taking your brand to the next level using custom printed or embroidered garments.

Let us see the ways you may approach to get your custom holiday printed t-shirts in upcoming sections.

Ways to get custom holiday printed gifts

Printing T-Shirt Designs Using Screen Printing

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simple branding for clubs and organizations merlin embroidery

Screen printing on t-shirts is a popular way to add unique designs. It requires a wooden or aluminum mesh screen. The screenprinting screens are coated with a photo-sensitive emulsion that drys onto the screen. The stenciled image stays affixed to the screen when exposed to ultra-violet rays when exposed to the light. 

How to create silk screen printing artwork for friends, women, kids, and all?

The silkscreen is the stenciled image of your logo. That image is then printed onto a t-shirt or other type of hoodie or other garments. The ink goes through the silkscreen stencil and onto the t-shirt. You can use many different colors of ink or just one color, depending on the design you want to make. The ink will give the t-shirt a unique look. 

Should you print a large number of your team’s uniforms at a local screenprinting shop?

Certainly not! There are a number of problems with doing this. First, most screen printers want a minimum order of a few hundred pieces. Since they print in a four-color process (CMYK), the screens and plates they must make cost thousands of dollars for each color. This does not include the cost of paper, ink, and time involved to make sure the screen-printed garments look like your CAD art or digital artwork (yes, it is possible).

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Direct to garment printing for short runs high color merlin embroidery

But many Professionals can do this printing method at a local screenprinting shop. One such local print and embroidery shop is Merlin embroidery. Our minimum screenprinting order is 48 shirts. Experience has taught us that a 48 shirt minimum is ideal for small businesses, teams, organizations, and clubs, to get the best price per shirt and average the cost of setup fees over the total quantity of shirts ordered. Lower your cost per shirt when you order more shirts. Forty-eight shirts are the beginning of the excellent pricing, and it just gets better and better the more shirts you order.

Instead of sending the work to a professional screen printer, you can focus on doing a home project of decorating shirts. I’ve included a few ideas below with some notes of caution.

Printing T-Shirt Designs Using Spray Printing, Brush Painting, Or Bleaching

When it comes to screen printing, you do have other options besides just the trusty old-fashioned methods. 

Spray Printing

When Spray painting a print design onto a t-shirt, there are a few specific things you’ll need: a spray bottle, some stencils, and thinner to mix with the ink and clean it off your work area. You can create several stencils or repeat one you already made for this kind of innovative work.

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Large format embroidery merlin embroidery Ensure the printing company have options for colors and size

This printing method, often used in home-based printing work. And we cannot use this method for industrial print because most of the spray paints are vinyl and aerosol. You’ll need good ventilation. We recommend outside or in a garage with the door open. Take frequent breaks where you walk away from the work area. After completing each shirt, you may want to let the stencil dry outside in the sun for a few minutes before spraying another shirt. If the stencil is dry, you won’t accidentally mark up a perfect garment with wet pain.

Brush Printing

Brush printing can paint the image you have in your hand directly onto a t-shirt or other textile. You can use ready-made stencils, cardboard cutouts, or nothing but your imagination to do this. Note that brush painting leaves a heavier feeling print. Brush painting can be messy but is excellent for creating one-off images.

Bleaching

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Embroidery on religious garments merlin embroidery Ensure the printing company have options for colors and size

Bleaching is easy to do using bleach pens. Leach is used to print patterns and lines on the fabric. It is not harmful to our skin, and it will not ruin our fabric also. One of the main types of modern screenprinting is based on bleaching the t-shirt fabric. It’s called Discharge printing. Discharge printing removes the dye color from a colored t-shirt, leaving the natural undyed shirt as a neutral color palette in the background to print. This print method is super soft to the touch but has added setup costs. Call your local professional screen printer for more information. Best print results require 100% cotton t-shirts.

T-Shirt Printing With Thermal Transfers

What are the benefits of heat transfers? What is a heat transfer?

Heat transfers are an easy way to add artwork or images to apparel. There are prepared, ready-to-use transfers you can iron on directly to your clothing—Preheat the garment a few seconds before applying the iron to turn clear and readable. Be sure to read how hot the press is and how long you apply heat to the garment. Most heat transfers require 350-400 degrees for 12-15 seconds. However, there will be specific instructions for each garment type and each heat transfer type. Be sure to read the instructions.

What is the difference between hot and cold peal transfers?

Similarly, there are two distinct heat transfers or Thermal transfers; hot peal and cold peal. In hot peal transfers, you want to peel the paper receiver off the heated design while it’s still hot or warm. Experience shows if you wait about 30 seconds after heat pressing, you can easily peel off the paper receiver without distorting the image. With cold peel, as the name suggests, you wait until the design has cooled off completely. The bottom line is that heat cures the ink, just like direct silkscreen printing. If the ink is fully cured, the garment and design will be long-lasting. If not, the design will wash and peel off after only a few washes.

You can also create your designs using an inkjet or laserjet printer onto the receiver paper, also known as transfer paper. The design is printed in reverse onto the transfer paper. Those printed areas are heat sensitive and will adhere to the garment when exposed to heat. For home projects, a simple iron can be used to cure the ink on a heat transfer. In the shop, we use a silicon sheet to cover the design. This protective sheet is placed between the heat panel and the garment to disperse heat evenly and avoid burning the garment. Avoid using a heat gun as you can easily scorch or burn the garment.

Custom Holiday Printed Gifts FAQs

How soon can I receive my Christmas prints?

Delivery of your order will be processed within 5 working days. If you give order early, you’ll get delivered early. Close to the Christmas date, we may be full busy to fulfill a lot of clients’ needs. So hurry up to order now at https://merlinembroidery.net

How do I get a free file check?

You can call us at 619-884-9712 to know more about this.

What better way to show someone your love this gift-giving season than by giving a personalized present?

Personalized presents are thoughtful, often handmade, and the ideal gift for the one you love. It’s important to find a unique present that will not only celebrate your love but also be useful in his or her daily life. Here at Merlin Embroidery, we are making things possible by making unique gifts for your loved ones. Visit us at https://onlineprintedtees.com

What paper stock should I use for my Christmas cards?

Here’s the secret: it doesn’t matter. You can use any paper you want, and when it comes to making cards, all you really need is a printer (or access to one), an ink cartridge, and an envelope. That’s it. Make sure to choose a pretty paper that reflects your personality and that you enjoy looking at.

Conclusion

No matter what holiday is being celebrated, you can count on merlinembroidery.net to have something for everyone at your event! 

Whether you have an entire promotional budget or doing some one-off gifts, we can help advise you in the process.  

We have promotional t-shirts in our catalog for every special day throughout the year, so you always have the perfect wardrobe accessory ready to wear. Please browse through our generous selection of garment catalogs and create 100% original, branded shirts. https://www.4logowearables.com/Merlin

What are the steps to making sure that your company is ready for corporate custom holiday printed gifts?

Keep in mind that some holidays are busier than others, so plan several weeks before the event. Merlin embroidery is always available to talk to customers about their gift-giving ideas. Call Kevin today to discuss your holiday gift ideas, 619.884.9712, or if it’s after hours, email MerlinEmb@gmail.com with a brief description of your project and a call back number, and we’ll get back to you the next business day. If you have an existing logo, be sure to attach it to the email for faster service and more specific feedback on your project.