Introduction

This makes a great gift, t-shirt, mug, etc. for any computer or math geek, friend, child or baby! Write you name or message in up to 100,000 of the infinitely non-repeating digits of pi. PiShop is a free online application that allows you to generate customized image to use as a t-shirt transfer, banner, or whatever else you want to use it for. It's free for personal use, but if you like it, I encourage you to make a little donation for my kids' college funds! =)

"Jacob" with the first 10,373 digits of pi (scaled down considerably).

What You'll Need

For t-shirts, onesies, bibs, and other garments:

• Printable iron-on transfers
• A onesie, hat, bodysuit, or other garment to receive the transfer
• A printer to print the transfer (suggestion below)
• The image to print (create it below)

Some handy supplies
$16.46

Writing with Pi

Simply fill out the short form below and put a check mark in the box by "Mirror Image" if you want the image to be reversed for transfer paper. (Many printers do this automatically when you indicate that you're printing on transfer paper.)

Type in your name or message; select a font, size and color.

Next click "Make Image." The page will refresh, and the image will appear (sized to fit) below the Make Transfer button. You can save the full size version of the image by simply right-clicking on the thumbnail, then selecting "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As..."

Making the Shirt

Depending upon the size of the shirt, onesie, hat, bib, sweater or other garment you want to make, you may need to resize the image using a word processing or photo editing program before you print it to the transfer paper. Once you get the size about right, print out a test page to make sure it will fit the garment.

Need a good printer? I use a Canon Pixma iP6600D photo printer shown below, and I'm continually astounded by the superb prints I get -- all the way up to 8x10, which cost a fortune if you buy them online or at the photo store. Plus it's quite fast and it prints of both sides of the paper, so it basically use it to print everything. (Use the "Pro" paper for photos you won't regret it!)

The best photo printer on the planet
	$22.53		$40.69	$13.99	$14.17

After you've printed your test page on cheap paper, load in the expensive stuff (the iron-on transfer paper) and stqart printing. Once it's printed, I typically like to cut around the image and cut out large sections of unprinted transfer. This tends to make the final product look a little cleaner and more professional.

The transfer paper should come with instructions on how best to transfer the image from the paper to the garment.

Licensing & Registration

Visit What is CollegeFundware? on this site for details on how to legally use this software after a reasonable evaluation period.

Status & Known Issues

There are no open issues. If you discover other issues or defects, please contact me at the address at the bottom of this page (in the footer).

Versions & Update History

V.1.0 (Mar 21, 2006): Initial release.