1 Off Shirt Printing

AdHustler

AdHustler

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Hey guys,

im looking for recommendations on websites that do 1 off shirt printing (probably direct to garment printing) but where the shirts look good and wash well. I'm particularly interested in printing on black shirts. Ive found a few websites that do it such as uberprints.com but wanted to know if anyone has done it and has recommendations. Thanks :)
 


What about VistaPrint.com or CafePress.com?

If you're just getting one for your business, then I'd honestly go somewhere local and have it embroidered.

Now, if you're wanting to do it in bulk, then I'd go with one of the above since you don't have to keep inventory and they'll ship wherever. Order a bunch at once from them, or just tie the item feed into a checkout if you're wanting to include it with a registration or something if you're doing some kind of event.
 
I've used Uberprint and Zazzle -- both are ok. It really depends on how complicated the image is.

With mine, I used them to make shirts for my kid -- he's really into trains, and I ordered him a couple of basic white shirts with old train pictures on them (grab a pd photo, fade the image edge to transparency, load up.) He's had them for a while now, they been through the wash, no issues. Of course, it's light coloured images on a white background, and ymmv when switching to darks, but a photograph is pretty detailed as far as tee shirt designs go, and I've not noticed any real issues with them as far as resolution goes -- pretty good stuff really.


Frank
 
AdHustler said:
...im always afraid with these places that the print wont look like a normal tshirt
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From the Customink site
"Decoration: Screen printing or high-quality digital printing"

This is what is going to make a difference.

To screenprint a shirt the printer will have to expose a screen with with photo-emulsion, I don't know about now but a few years back there was usually a set-up fee for this, then you would pay a fee per shirt depending on quantity. So this is an expensive way to get a one-off, but it will be a "proper' screenprinted tee.

On the other hand (someone correct me if I'm wrong) digital printing will be (or will be similar to) a digital image transferred to paper then applied to a shirt. It can look great, but it won't look screenprinted, and especially will not look like opaque ink screenprinted on a dark shirt.

Disclaimer: I haven't screenprinted in over 10 years, and am unfamiliar with modern printing technology, so may not know what the fuck I am going on about anymore : )
However, the fact Customink are still talking about Screen printing vs digital printing suggests this should be considered...
 
Do you need it to be one off? If you can do bulk, it is MUCH cheaper and not too difficult to order blank shirts then bring them to a local screen printer. I sold a bunch of lax pinnies for a college event that I got for $4 ea, printed for $2, and sold for $20. And that was only 200 something items. If you can open a big account you will get great margins.
 
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