Round Neck T-Shirts for it and software services
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Software companies print little, but what they do print is usually for a conference where it competes with fifty others.
Round Neck T-Shirts come up constantly in that context, and there are a few things worth deciding before you order.
The specification
Finished size is 210 × 297 mm, so artwork should be supplied at 210 × 297 mm to include 0 mm of bleed on every edge, in CMYK at 300 DPI or better.
Production runs to 5 working days before transit.
What matters for technology firms
Everything is read in a noisy hall in about three seconds. Dense technical copy is wasted there.
- Conference cards and one-pagers
- Exhibition standees and backdrops
- Branded apparel for the team
Quantities and what they cost
10 costs ₹3,500 — ₹350 each — while 100 works out at ₹280 each, a drop of about 20%.
The temptation is always to buy the biggest quantity, because the per-unit price falls sharply. That is only a saving if you use them before something changes — an address, a phone number, a price, a person. Order roughly nine months of realistic use.
- 10 — ₹3,500 (₹350 each)
- 25 — ₹8,125 (₹325 each)
- 50 — ₹15,000 (₹300 each) · most popular
- 100 — ₹28,000 (₹280 each) · best value
Preparing the artwork
Finished size is 210 × 297 mm, so artwork should be supplied at 210 × 297 mm to include 0 mm of bleed on every edge, in CMYK at 300 DPI or better.
This product is not trimmed after printing, so no bleed is required — supply artwork at the exact size above.
Every file is checked automatically before it reaches a press. Anything that would print badly is blocked while it can still be fixed; anything borderline is flagged for you to decide.
- Supply as PDF, or as PNG, JPG or TIFF at 300 DPI at final size.
- Work in CMYK. RGB files are converted, which can shift bright blues and greens.
- Embed fonts, or convert text to outlines, so nothing is substituted.
- One page.
Delivery and lead time
Production takes 5 working days. Transit is added on top of that and depends on where it is going, but standard delivery costs nothing anywhere in India — distance is paid for in days rather than rupees.
Orders placed after midday start production the following working day, and the promised date always allows for that.
- Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad — about 7 working days in total.
- Tier-one cities such as Pune, Jaipur, Kochi and Chandigarh — about 8 days.
- Most other pincodes — about 10 days.
- North-east and the islands — 13 to 17 days.
The mistake to avoid
Putting an architecture diagram on a standee. Nobody reads it, and it crowds out the one line that might have worked.
It is worth an extra week of planning, because the alternative is paying for the run twice.
GST and invoicing
Printed apparel under HSN 6109, taxed at 5%.
Prices shown are MRP and already include GST, so the figure on the product page is what gets charged. Add your GSTIN at checkout and the tax invoice carries it, along with the HSN per line and the tax split, so input credit can be claimed without a follow-up.
It is far easier to enter a GSTIN at checkout than to have an issued invoice amended afterwards.