It started with a spare room
Giftinator began with late-night printing sessions and a simple idea: a present should feel like someone thought about you, not like something that fell off a catalogue page. That is still the test every design has to pass.
What grew out of it is a catalogue of 1,900+ designs for personalised t-shirts — and the odd bit of nonsense — for customers in the UK and around the world. Same idea, more sellotape.
We are not trying to be the biggest shop on the internet. We are trying to be the one you come back to when the joke has to land, the name has to be spelled right, and it has to arrive on time.
1–2 days
printing and packing before it is posted
S–5XL
every design, one unisex cut
Worldwide
posted tracked to your door
How an order actually happens
Three things happen between you pressing pay and the parcel landing on a doormat.
We set the artwork
Every design is drawn, lettered or laid out by us — never bought in and reprinted. Names, ages and photos are typeset when you type them, at print resolution.
Your order is prepared
Direct-to-garment, 300dpi, on a mid-weight cotton tee. Nothing is printed ahead of time, which is why a design costs what it costs instead of being discounted every other week.
Packed and posted by hand
Inks, seams and sizing are checked before anything is folded. Order before 1pm on a working day and printing starts the same day; the parcel leaves China 2–5 working days later, fully tracked.
“If it doesn’t make us laugh, it doesn’t go in the shop.”
What that means in practice
Personalised, not pre-printed
Every piece is personalised with your words or your photo. Nothing is thrown away at the end of a season, and you never end up with the design someone else already has.
One price, honestly arrived at
A mid-weight tee, checked before it goes and posted tracked. We would rather explain the price than invent a fake one and cross it out.
A real person on the other end
[email protected] reaches the people who pack the orders, seven days a week. If the fit is wrong we swap the size — even on a personalised piece.
Every order is posted by someone who has seen it
The person folding your shirt is the person who checked the print. If something is wrong, they are also the person who reads your email — which is why the reply usually has the answer in it rather than a ticket number.
