How many names can you fit on the back of a shirt?

[Prosperi-Tees]

I have customer wanting family reunion shirts and wants everybodys name printed on the back. It is over 120 names. Full names at that. I am thinking the names are going to be way to small to read. What is the most you guys have done?

[Northland]

I've done 300+ for senior graduation shirts (in a 13" x 16" print).... they're small but readable. Make sure they format them for you, so you don't have to spend allot of time with the design (then they are responsible for spell checking).
You could group them by last name and just print first names under the surname heading.

[Prosperi-Tees]

They have the names in a Microsoft document. Could I use that?

[Dottonedan]

Names from Microsoft would be about the only good art that comes from a Microsoft file. How many names depends on the font style and size. You then can scale and or adjust kerrning to make it work even more.

I put 300+ names on a coffee mug so I imagine you can put on up to 2000 names or so, depending.

[Printhouse]

I just did 437 on the back of a tee..... Divided into classes and they turned out great.  I will snap a pic tomorrow.  White ink on dark green tees to boot.

[Frog]

I think that you could easily fit the 120 names even as large as 16 or 18 points. The smaller you go, the more you want a font that will not fill in lower case "e's" and "a's". In fact, I go upper case whenever possible.
I also have dome plenty of senior and cast and crew shirts with lots of names.

[Gilligan]

You could always recommend they download and install Inkscape or Gimp and make them lay it out.

You could give them a "template" of your printable area as a box for them to put it all in.

[Prosperi-Tees]

I imported in and when I sized it, it is about 12 pt Arial Bold. I think it will be fine.

[3Deep]

Gerry thats the font I was just about to tell you to go with...fancy fonts for a bunch of names on a tee is a no no if you want to read them and not have any wash out problems, I,ve printed a few hundred names allso on many shirts. Good Luck

Darryl

[mk162]

word actually works pretty well for this sort of thing for 1 reason...THEY DID THE TYPESETTING.  I can't tell you how many people print a list out and want me to retype it all.  There is always a misspelling in there that they don't find on my version.