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Stay away from anything that uses a printer, like Cafepress or Zazzle. The quality is horrendous.
And the cost is very high.
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And the cost is very high.
Do you know any alternatives to these services? I've used cafepress in the past, to print 6 color shirts and they came out pretty good. They were pricier than I would've liked, but I wasn't purchasing a quantity where I could find cheaper alternatives.
I believe there is a new multi-color process (a few years old, which is bleeding edge in the print industry) that apparently does high color prints at high speed, but I don't know how many providers actually have such a machine, or if the costs are competitive with screen printing.
I'd be curious who prints the shirts for the Mozilla Foundation. I love my Firefox shirt. It looks great, has at least four or five colors, and has held up well.
Mine says "Microsoft Genius" and was a prize from the 2003 Imagine Cup.
Maybe this is a sweatshop problem? Still, it's a nice T-shirt and I like wearing it when I have an appointment with the bank manager.
What I love are bags, although they're probably more expensive and are also overdone. Lately I've seen a resurgence in reusable general purpose (not messenger/laptop type) bags. With Whole Foods not having their awesome plastic bags anymore (that I like reusing, mind you), I always use the bags to carry around random things and groceries. I only wish they'd be handed out more often.
On a sidenote, have you considered giving away some other items? I only mention this because I have about ten million tshirts and pens from conferences and trade shows that I don't really want that are taking up precious room in my closet. What I love are bags, although they're probably more expensive and are also overdone. Lately I've seen a resurgence in reusable general purpose (not messenger/laptop type) bags. Wi…
I know that a lot of people are tired of shirts (I know that I have several from companies that ceased to be), but at Gaming convention goers in particular people are more likely to than average to wear T-shirts rather than white dress shirts.
It also means they need to pack less clothing for the trip.
Also, note the success of sites such as StartupSchwag.. People are willing to Pay for random branded T's.
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Do you know any alternatives to these services? I've used cafepress in the past, to print 6 color shirts and they came out pretty good. They were pricier than I would've liked, but I wasn't purchasing a quantity where I could find cheaper alternatives.
As far as I know, the cost is determined by the process and the quantity. Screen-printed shirts start out expensive, because you have to make one screen for every color (at $60-$180 per screen, I seem to recall, though it's been a year or more since I last got shirts), but get cheaper as the quantities increase because the screen is good for hundreds or thousands of shirts and it's really fast to do. The lifetime of…
It did fade rapidly too. Luckily we only got a handful of them.