How do I figure out how much I need to buy?Updated 2 years ago
Unfortunately, since we do not know all the details of your designs we have a policy to not do this for customers manually. We do, however, have a calculator on our website that can be used to estimate the amount you will need.
You will need to know the following to get started.
- Width x Height of your design
- Number of shirts you need to make
- Width of the material you will be buying (most HTV is sold in either 12", 15", 20", however the width may not be exact so be sure to check the product description)
How to Calculate Manually
So for our example our design is 12" x 4" and we are buying 15" wide material and need to make 50 of them.
We can fit only one design that is 12" wide on a 15" width material, so we would be able to fit one design every 4 inches. Always leave about a quarter of an inch between each design. So each design will take up 4.25 inches.
We would then take the measurement of 4.35 and multiply it by how many shirts we are making.
4.25 x 50 = 212.5
The 212.5 is the total number of inches we will need. Then we convert to feet.
212.5 / 12 = 17.7
So we need a total of 17.7 ft. We round up since we can only buy it in a full feet to 18 feet.