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Design 360
Design 360 is a student-run business located at Lanier College & Career Academy. We take Work-Based Learning students from Hall County High Schools to work as interns in the lab. We work with real-world clients to design and produce promotional items such as t-shirts, mugs, and more! Our student interns are involved throughout the whole process from communicating with clients, creating designs, to production. To inquire about placing an order, please email design360@hallco.org.
Our Services
Our services include direct-to-garment printing, embroidery, sublimation, wide-format printing, and vinyl. Please visit a service’s individual tab for more details.
Direct-to-Garment Printing allows us to print directly on cotton fabric. Great for t-shirts and canvas totes!
Embroidery allows us to stitch logos, monograms, and names onto fabric. Great for polos, bags, hats, & more!
Sublimation allows us to dye logos and photos onto a variety of blank products. Great for mugs, coasters, & more!
Vinyl Cutting allows us to cut custom designs out of vinyl. Great for car decals, window signage, & more!
Wide Format Printing allows us to make large scale prints. Great for posters, canvases, signage, stickers & more!
What is Direct-To-Garment Printing?
Direct-to-garment printing is a process that allows us to print directly on to 100% cotton material! It works very similarly to your printer at home. The design is dyed into the fabric. This means it can’t wash out or peel off over time! Direct-to-garment printing works best on lighter colored material because there is no white ink. Design 360’s best seller is our direct-to-garment printed t-shirt!
What is Embroidery?
Embroidery is applying art or designs to fabric with thread and needle. We have a multi-needle embroidery machine that reads a certain file type to embroider designs. We can do everything from monograms to logos. We have access to all embroidery files for all Hall County School District School. We can also have a logo digitized so that it can be embroidered.
What is Sublimation?
Sublimation printing uses heat to vaporize ink and infuse its color into a poly-coated substrate. It allows us to print photo quality images or designs on dozens of items such as coasters, mugs, ornaments, keychains, and more! The sublimation process prevents the designs from fading or distorting over time.
What is vinyl?
Vinyl is a flexible and versatile material that can be used to make decals like logos for businesses or monograms. With our vinyl cutter we are able to cut custom designs out. This is a great material to use on a variety of surfaces like windows, walls, phones, cars. and more. We can even use heat transfer vinyl (HTV) to put onto apparel.
What is wide format printing?
With wide format printing we can make large scale prints on multiple kinds of media in a wade variety of sizes. We have 2 types of printers that use different kinds of ink, aqueous and eco-solvent.
With our aqueous ink printer, we can print on media like plain paper, scrim banner, and canvas. Our most popular items from our aqueous ink printer are our custom canvas prints. Prints from this printer are best for indoor use because we use water soluble ink. However, they will work outside as long as it’s not for multiple weeks.
Our eco-solvent ink printer can print and cut! We can print/cut stickers, static clings, vinyl, paper, and more. Our most popular item from our eco-solvent ink printer are our stickers! Eco-solvent ink is waterproof making it an option for indoor or outdoor use.
What are screen print transfers?
We order screen print transfers from a third party vendor. They screen print the design we set up onto transfer paper and ship it to the lab. When it arrives, we use a heat press to apply it to shirts and other items. Screen print transfers can be applied to almost any fabric.
Shirt Services
Direct to Garment Printing
This process works similarly to printing on paper with a regular printer. The design is dyed into the fabric of a cotton shirt.
There is NO white ink, so nothing will show up on black or dark colored items. Similarly, very bright colors will affect how the design looks. (Ex: A yellow design on a blue shirt will look a bit green.)
Any white in the design will be the color of the shirt. It works best on light colors like white, light grey, and light blue.
- No minimum order
- Most cost effective
- No black or dark colored shirts
- No white in the design
- Light shirt colors recommended
- Able to do full color designs
- Able to do intricate details like small text
- Starts at $7
Pricing
Pricing includes a full front design or small left chest design and full back design. Pricing below is for our base items. Pricing for specific brands/styles available upon request.
- Short Sleeve $7
- Raglan $12
- Long Sleeve $13
- Fleece Crew $15
- Hoodie $16
- Personalization +$1
- Full Front & Back +$1
- Size 2X +$1, 3X +$2, 4X +$3
Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV)
We cut vector designs from Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV), remove all of the excess HTV from the design, and then apply it on top of the shirt.
Designs cut with HTV cannot be very small or intricate. Designs must be vectors files (.ai, .svg, .eps, .dxf, and some .pdf) for us to be able to cut them.
We typically only use 1 color of HTV, but can potentially layer up to 3. HTV works well with all shirt colors and fabrics.
- Maximum order around 20
- No minimum order
- All shirt colors work
- Limited to 1-3 colors
- Price increases with amount of colors
- Options for glitter, metallic, and pattern HTV
- No intricate details or small text
- Starts at $10
Pricing
Pricing includes a full front, 1 color design.
Pricing for multiple colors or front & back designs available upon request. Pricing below is for our base items. Pricing for specific brands/styles available upon request.
- Short Sleeve $10
- Raglan $15
- Long Sleeve $16
- Fleece Crew $18
- Hoodie $19
- Size 2X +$1, 3X +$2, 4X +$3
Screen Print Transfers
We have the design screen printed onto transfer paper by our vendor then apply it on top of the shirt. Our vendor has different order minimums based on amount of colors used in the design (1, 2 or 3+). The price increases with the amount of colors used.
Full color designs and intricate designs are possible. They work well with all shirt colors and fabrics. These orders may take slightly longer as we have to wait for the transfers to be printed and shipped to us.
- Minimum order of 20 shirts for single color designs
- Minimum order of 50 shirts for 3+ color designs
- Price increases with amount of colors
- All shirt colors work
- Only way to have a 3+ color design on any shirt color including black
- Starts at $7
Pricing
Pricing includes a front only design on a short sleeve shirt. Pricing for front & back designs and other apparel items available upon request. Pricing below is for our base items. Pricing for specific brands/styles available upon request.
- 1 Color Design $7
- Minimum Order of 20
- 2 Color Design $8
- Minimum Order of 75
- 3+ Color Design
- Minimum Order of 50
- Qty: 50-74 $10
- Qty: 74-99 $9
- Qty: 100+ $8
- Size 2X +$1, 3X +$2, 4X +$3
Wide Format Printing & Stickers
Wide Format Printing
With our wide format printer, we’re able to print on plain/drafting quality paper, heavyweight coated paper, and canvas material. This process uses water soluble ink, so these items are best suited for indoor use. You may provide your own photos or designs or the lab can assist with the design. We will verify that any designs and/or photographs sent to us have a high enough resolution to print with the highest quality.
Posters
We stock our plain/drafting paper and heavyweight coated paper in 24″ and 36″ rolls. Please email design360@hallco.org to confirm availability and check pricing for the size of your project.
Canvas Prints
We offer framed canvas prints in the sizes below. Canvases are wrapped around a wooden frame built by HCSD’s Trades in Training Program.
- 8.5″ x 11″ | $17
- 12″ x 18″ | $22
- 16″ x 20″ | $32
- 16″ x 24″ | $42
- 20″ x 30″ | $67
Vinyl Printing
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