What's a decent, yet inexpensive website for printing custom t-shirts?

[George P Burdell]

I just need one t-shirt with a custom black & white image in front. The only website I know of, is Cafepress. But I've never used them and I don't know if they're any good.

Can you guys recommend a few websites?

 

[yllus]

http://www.spreadshirt.com/

 

[gwrober]

PM me the details of your graphic, and I'll see what I can do!

There are a few shirt printers on these boards too - usually, by policy, setting up screening for one shirt is a bad idea and a decent amount of work, but we can cut ya some slack!!

What about heat pressed vinyl? A lot less messy than screenprinting.....I'll post some pics of a sample in a few minutes...

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Just buy the equipment to print on shirts. They are relatively inexpensive and if you market right, you might even turn a few dollars

 

[gwrober]

Originally posted by: gwrober
PM me the details of your graphic, and I'll see what I can do!

There are a few shirt printers on these boards too - usually, by policy, setting up screening for one shirt is a bad idea and a decent amount of work, but we can cut ya some slack!!

What about heat pressed vinyl? A lot less messy than screenprinting.....I'll post some pics of a sample in a few minutes...

Here's a few sample pics of a shirt I made for my travel biz - the remote is for reference (sorry nothing else handy!)

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r142/gwrober/shirt/

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: gwrober
PM me the details of your graphic, and I'll see what I can do!

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/gpb.atot/not-lupus.png

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper
Just buy the equipment to print on shirts. They are relatively inexpensive and if you market right, you might even turn a few dollars

It's a birthday gift of sorts, so I need only one.


Also, how good/bad are iron-on tshirt transfers that HP sells? Since it's a B/W image, I'm more concerned about t-shirt print durability rather than image quality.

edited for typo

 

[SinfulWeeper]

The iron on stuff sucks more then Jenna Jameson. Well at least that was true 9 years ago. I never printed a shirt in ages.

 

[gwrober]

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper
The iron on stuff sucks more then Jenna Jameson. Well at least that was true 9 years ago. I never printed a shirt in ages.

I agree - the iron on stuff isn't bad for quick jobs or kids! The material they use leaves a thin plastic "ring" around the image, and fades quickly, IMO. But then, I'm in the business, so I'm biased.

Nice graphic, btw...


What kind of shirt do you want? Color?

For the record, the close ups of my travel shirt show some wear (little bits of cloth sticking up) - but in my defense, that shirt is also almost a year old. So the heat transfer vinyl wears well....

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: yllus
http://www.spreadshirt.com/

I'm getting my wife one that says, "BITCHIER THAN NORMAL."

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: gwrober

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper
The iron on stuff sucks more then Jenna Jameson. Well at least that was true 9 years ago. I never printed a shirt in ages.

I agree - the iron on stuff isn't bad for quick jobs or kids! The material they use leaves a thin plastic "ring" around the image, and fades quickly, IMO. But then, I'm in the business, so I'm biased.

Nice graphic, btw...


What kind of shirt do you want? Color?

For the record, the close ups of my travel shirt show some wear (little bits of cloth sticking up) - but in my defense, that shirt is also almost a year old. So the heat transfer vinyl wears well....

I was thinking white or organic.

 

[gwrober]

YGPM!

 

[wedi42]

try www.customink.com

 

[clamum]

I've had good experiences with the iron-on transfers from Wal-Mart. The transfers for light colored shirts worked very well, I have a shirt about 5 years old that's been through the wash countless times and it still looks almost as good as the day I put the transfer on.

The transfers for dark colored shirts end up cracking after awhile so they're not very good if you're looking for a shirt that looks good and lasts longer than a year or two.

 

[GrantMeThePower]

I used cafe press just once...and i wont use it again. The quality of their shirt was terrible.

I've tried silk screening and i'm not too good. Lol....i couldn't get all of the ***** out of the spots where the ink was supposed to go through and the transfer ended up not being dark enough.

 

[gwrober]

Originally posted by: GrantMeThePower
I used cafe press just once...and i wont use it again. The quality of their shirt was terrible.

I've tried silk screening and i'm not too good. Lol....i couldn't get all of the ***** out of the spots where the ink was supposed to go through and the transfer ended up not being dark enough.

Yeah there was quite a learning curve for us too. We even went to training, and even then it took a lot of practice. But we're decent at it now!