worked with the company and requested an exact pattern to map my design to the fabric shapes for the sleeves and the main shirt areas (see Figure 2). Doing this certainly helped, but I still didn't know how the design would look when it was curved over someone's body. The best way to check and adjust your designs for mapping them onto a body is to have 3D software that maps the design onto an actual body shape. If you don't have this technology available, |the next best thing is to get the most common size that will be ordered as a blank and find someone to put it on for you. When you have your model who's wearing the garment you can map some paper or fabric prints of your design onto the shapes to check the sizing. This "real person" check for sublimation designing is very important if you have logos that need to be legible on specific areas of the garment. You'll know right away if your logo will fall too low on the chest and become distorted or wrap around the arm and become unreadable. This could cause a client to return an order for a logoed garment, so it's critical to properly size and accommodate the distortion and sizing/positioning of design elements that need to be legible. Another really important step is to measure from a fixed point that will stay similar, independent of the shirt size, like the color or seam on the shoulder. You can then describe the necessary location of the printed elements to your sublimation printer or keep it for your records so the next order will match the first one. If possible, also keep a finished garment for a reference (see Figure 3). If you're printing sublimation on a finished garment it's a good idea to understand the sizing spread of the order and FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 EXAMPLE TEMPLATE FOR PRINTER LOCATIONS JUNE + JULY 2020 | SCREENPRINTING 27