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Magnet_Eye:
I vote NO to cafepress.com! its like $12.99 per shirt, and its just an iron on AND only in white/grey.
I say find a deal with a screenprinter for like $5/pop. Like i mentioned, i have a friend that IS a screenprinter. Good work. His site is www.blackjackhumboldt.com, not much there yet but they screenprint ANYTHING. Hats, shirts, sweatshirts, cd's, etc.
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Howard_Casto:
I agree on the cafepress.com sucking but before you guys go off suggesting a bunch of sites, this is what I gained by my conversation with saint.
#1 Online sites are very preferable and if it's not online based then it has to make up for it in other areas in a huge way. (Not just 2 bucks cheaper.)
#2 We really don't want to have to deal with sites that have a service fee per design or minimum orders. If they do have these things then the design cost must be very low and the minimum order extremely low (e.g. like 25 or less).
#3 None of these are rules, just things to go by. With that being said saint will most likely have the final say. What I have went over so far is what Saint says he would like in a place and therefore there probably a good rule of thumb to go by.
Now that that's out of the way, please keep it up, but check out these details before you post suggestions please. :)
DeathMonk:
"#1 Online sites are very preferable and if it's not online based then it has to make up for it in other areas in a huge way. (Not just 2 bucks cheaper.)"
I'm willing to bet that most t-shirt shops do not have their own site.. After all it's not that big of a business. IMO, I think your going to find the best deals at local t-shirt shops. If you still disagree, there is still a possibility that the online sites will come to some agreement on a deal if it's going to be a quantity.
Frostillicus:
I think cafepress.com is advantageous because:
1) They are online
2) you don't have to order 500 shirts per order
But they do fall short in colors - no black, navy, etc.
We get shirts printed at work sometimes for events that we sponsor, BUT there is ALWAYS a minimum order of like 300-600 shirts. Some printers have different minimum orders but they all have something(meaning, no one at a time printing). They look awesome silkscreened, but that means a HUGE investment up front for buying a bunch of shirts and selling them himself- cafepress seems to print an order as they go(is this correct?)
I doubt anyone would want to shell out the $$$ for a bunch of t-shirts, even if it's only 100 at a time. Most t-shirt places need a minimum or else it's just not cost effective - kind of like offset printing, where most of the cost is an overhead. I think that's why cafepress is so popular
Just my $.02
Jakobud:
Well my 0.02 cents is that I would not buy any BYOAC clothing if it's from cafepress.com.
All you get are white clothes. Why settle for such crappy colors?
I'm down with that Jakprints place mentioned above. Good prices and not very much of a minimum order.
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