You spend an evening perfecting a design on your phone, place the order, and the shirt arrives with blurry edges, colors that look nothing like the screen, and a print that starts cracking after one wash. It's a common story, and it usually has nothing to do with the design itself. The gap sits in everything that happens between "I like this" and "print it." Custom t-shirt printing looks simple from the outside, but a good result depends on a handful of decisions most buyers