Emergency Snack Get my QR

Getting it on a shirt

The bot gives you the file. This page gets it onto cotton without breaking the scan.

Get the file

Send /qr to @EmergencySnackBot. For a group shirt, send /qr@The_Pantry_Bot in the group. You get two things back:

  • A picture of the code to scan off your screen. Its caption is the raw link, if you'd rather make your own graphic.
  • The print file, emergency-snack-print.png: over 2000 px wide, EMERGENCY SNACK above the code, black on a transparent background.

Size, and where it goes

A T-shirt from the front and the back. The code sits in the middle of the chest on the front and high on the back, at least 8 cm wide. The seams and the sides of the shirt are marked as places to avoid. 8 CM + FRONT BACK
Hatched: the sides, where the shirt curves round you. Dashed: seams.

At least 8 cm wide on the shirt. Bigger is fine. The bot's file is sized for this, so scale it, don't stretch it: both sides together, or the squares stop being squares.

Chest or upper back. Keep it off the seams, and off the sides where the fabric curves.

Test it before you print

  1. Off the screen

    Open the picture on one phone and scan it with another.

  2. On paper, full size

    Print the file on plain paper at the size it'll be on the shirt: 8 cm or more across.

  3. From a metre away

    Stick the paper on a wall and scan it from about a metre back. If it won't scan on paper, it won't scan on you.

Colour

Dark code, light shirt. It's what every scanner expects, and it's what the print file is.

A light code on a dark shirt (inverted) is risky: plenty of phones won't read it. If you go that way anyway, test it on several phones before you print.

Printing it

At home: iron-on transfer paper

Inkjet transfer paper from an office-supplies shop, the kind made for light fabric. Most light-fabric papers want the image mirrored before you print, so do what the packet says. Press hard on the corners.

Or send it off

These print a single shirt from your own PNG. They're in no particular order and we get nothing from any of them. Checked September 2026.

  • Das T-Shirt Automat Melbourne · Fitzroy, Kensington, Prahran, Preston

    No minimum order, so one shirt is fine. Standard turnaround from five business days.

  • Spreadshirt Online · ships to Australia

    Upload a PNG and order a single shirt.

  • Vistaprint Online · Australia

    Upload your file. No minimum for direct-to-garment or heat-transfer printing.

Don't

  • Print a black code on a black shirt.
  • Wear it under a jacket. A code nobody can see is a plain shirt.
  • Print it at less than 300 dpi. The file is big for a reason.

That's it. Wear it somewhere with people.