Reading & Teachers Perfect Print Tees
This T-shirt smelled soooo bad when I took it out of the package! It was like a fish crawled inside and died. I had to wash it separately in the washer immediately upon opening it. Thankfully, washing it did the trick but I was going to give this as a gift in the package. Now I have to explain to the gift receiver why their birthday present was washed ahead of time.
The greater the smell, the more we worked on it. Sometimes during our prep of a design with many colors like this super popular one from this order (raised by books on a natural colored tee), the pre-treatment process (which ensures a great quality print) leaves a little more residue than we'd like or we are using many colors to get a specific color within the design print itself, leaving a little more "newness" smell than other prints. This does wash out, but can carry a smell which some are sensitive to. We ship these all fresh off the press, cured in a 40,000 USD curing dryer (to ensure proper curing vs. the heat press which some companies use). Sometimes we also have noticed that certain colors from Bella Canvas can also carry a "newness" smell - which also fades away after a wash. Thanks for the feedback, we also notice these things and do all we can to lessen them, and the smell seems to be a hit and miss over the thousands we make on our popular designs.