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The Ann Arbor T-shirt Company is composed of dozens of artists, screen printers, art techs, logistics professionals, embroiderers, and support staff, all operating out of Ann Arbor, Michigan (about 40 miles west of Detroit). We give our employees subsidized healthcare, a 401k match, company soccer and kickball teams, catered employee lunches, and quarterly company parties around town. While we believe in treating our employees with respect as a matter of course, it makes business sense, too. Happy people make better shirts - cooler art, higher quality prints, more exacting quality control, etc.

From top to bottom, our people are proud of the product we produce, and cannot wait to share it with you. If you ever find yourself in Ann Arbor, stop in for some coffee and a tour - we'd love to show you how we make our stuff!

This design was drawn and screen printed (silk screened) with pride by our skilled illustrators and printers in Ann Arbor. The shirt is a ringspun, 30/1 fine jersey knit on 90% USA-grown cotton (10% polyester for the two-tone effect), resulting in a soft and smooth fabric with a high thread-count. These are mid-weight shirts - a bit lighter than your mass-market, thick gym class t-shirts, but substantial and not see-through.

We use QCM screen printing inks, manufactured in Pineville, North Carolina. These are high quality inks - vibrant and durable, and highly crack resistant. Some of our designs are intentionally faded or cracked, but our inks always "do what they are told" by our printers. We use top of the line printing presses and ovens (to cure inks) made by M&R in Illinois.

QCM has been one of the most forward-thinking ink manufacturers in the industry, going phthalate-free over ten years ago. They're also CFC free and rated as carcinogen-free by the state of California. The tagless tag is printed on the fabric inside the collar, so you can't feel it.

This shirt is slightly tapered to be a little less boxy than the old style of mass-market t-shirt. Most people wear the same size in our shirts as they do in all of their others, but you might go one size larger if you're on the fence. It is pre-shrunk, but like any high-cotton product, will still shrink slightly in the wash.

Our model photos are the real thing - the actual shirt on our salesguy, Rich. He's 6' 2", 200 lbs and wearing a large.

When you buy one of our shirts, your money is flying all around the country. The percentages vary between products as input prices fluctuate (and a small percent of our catalogue is fully imported), but for the most part, it looks something like this: Ann Arbor, MI - Design, Printing, & Production- 35% Seattle, WA - Advertising & Platform Fees - 22% Cincinnati, OH - Apparel Distributor - 6% Atlanta, GA - Shipping & Logistics - 4% Roselle, IL - Printing Presses & Equipment - 4% Texas & Southwest US - Cotton Farming - 4% Toluca, Mexico - Fabric Sewing - 3% Pineville, NC - Screen Printing Inks - 1%

We proudly design, print, & embroider the majority of our products completely in our Ann Arbor, MI factory! The Ann Arbor T-shirt Company grew from a dorm room project between two friends at the University of Michigan. We love giving people fun ways to express themselves and strike up conversations with their neighbors.

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