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Wanna make yer own {arcade} shirt?
Ummon:
I like to put special slogans on shirts. For my training stuff, I actually made my own by hand. Used Word to come up with what I wanted, text-wise, printed it on a manilla folder, cut out the letters with a blade, pinned my stencils (including 'o' and 'a' holes, so that it didn't have that 'stenciled' look) to the shirt on a carboard box top, and then used special fabric paint marker.
Came out great. But it was a lot of work. After the third one, I said that's it.
So, recently, I decided to look up online shirt services. Two I came up with seem to have nice product and features. One has more features and seemingly nicer shirt stock, and is twice the price.
For a trial run, I did some simple text on the cheaper site, called spread shirt. With shipping, it cost about $19 and took about four/five days to get to me. I got it today.
front
back (No, this is no reference to the Queen song. Yes, I have already worn this out.)
I was hoping for an ink, but it's some kind of industrial-grade (I think) decal. I don't know if it breathes. Images, espeically large ones might get hot.
Below is an image of the designer of the other site, called blue cotton. You have a few options for image designs, as well as uploading your own and how that's considered by the designer. I went for full color to get an idea of a higher-end cost. (Of course this is just the front.) Might be kinda hard to see - it says $29.98, including the shirt, and shipping is free. I don't know what kind of material they use.
protokatie:
Hmm. I would imagine it would be a rubber transfer to the fabric (remember all those rainbow brite and he-man shirts you had in the 80s? (Or the starwars ones in the 70's). They do not breathe and will work off during laundering. This makes sense tho, the reason why they made the rubberised transfers was to allow for an accurate image to appear on the fabric. If they had used ink for your old Transformers T-shirts, it would have looked like crap, would have been hard to print, and would have bled thus giving a poor image quality.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: protokatie on November 02, 2009, 02:13:17 am ---Hmm. I would imagine it would be a rubber transfer to the fabric (remember all those rainbow brite and he-man shirts you had in the 80s? (Or the starwars ones in the 70's). They do not breathe and will work off during laundering.
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Yeah, I remember. I think I still have an Adam Ant hanky that's like that. Probably the only pink thing I ever owned as a twelve year old. The shirts with large logos wasn't too bad. Things tended to get "slick" just underneath, not a big deal on cool days.
I think the rub on those is everyone's mommy used to wash them in hot water, virtually guaranteeing their eminent demise. Remember those hypercolor shirts? Same thing, hot wash/dry == death. I remember how pissed off I was when my first hypercolor shirt died.
Turn the shirt inside out, wash 'em in cold water, and hang dry. They should last quite a while. I don't know if they age well though. Rubber tends to break down in unpredictable ways. I'll see if I can find my old clothes box and see how the Adam Ant art held up over 20 years.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 02, 2009, 04:17:00 am ---Remember those hypercolor shirts? Same thing, hot wash/dry == death. I remember how pissed off I was when my first hypercolor shirt died.
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I forgot about those. Mine got stuck in a permanent brown mode. :lol
ChadTower:
...with inconsistent colors that made it look like used toilet paper, I bet.
Those shirts were way out of my price range back then. $25 for a T shirt in 1990!
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