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March 15th, 2009
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|  Custom Print Pima Cotton
I would like to create a few T-shirts for my own personal collection. I'm however only interested in printing on a certain fabric i have come to understand as "100% Pima Cotton." This style shirt can be found with prints from "Express." It is a thin soft fine fabric that feels very luxurious. Does anyone know of a place, vendor, person etc that might be able to meet my needs? | |
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March 15th, 2009
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| Re: Custom Print Pima Cotton
So you're looking for a retailer that can sell you a few, rather than a wholesaler who'll require dozens?
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March 18th, 2009
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| Re: Custom Print Pima Cotton
Pretty much, I want to design some prints for my own personal collection. Not 24 of one shirt. I have no intent to distribute or sell. | |
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March 18th, 2009
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| Re: Custom Print Pima Cotton
You can get individual shirts, and depending on how much you buy, you may get a dozen, piece, or sample price. Alternative also offers Pima Cotton for some of their styles. The Pima Cotton is so incredibly soft it's just awesome. If you're printing them, use water base inks or inks with "no hand" (so you can barely - or can't feel the print). You don't want to print heavy plastisol ink or digital or vinyl transfers on these since the shirts tend to be super light weight... | |
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March 18th, 2009
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| Re: Custom Print Pima Cotton
Alternative are who I was going to suggest for one-offs as well. If you search the forums for pima you'll find a bunch of other companies, but most (not all) of them are geared towards wholesale.
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| Re: Custom Print Pima Cotton
i know this is going to seem noobish but im not interested in doing the printing myself but rather have them printed and mailed to me. similar to customink.com and zazzle. where you select style and logo/text and they send you the custom shirt.
i don't have the know how nor the resources to do my own prints.
Atm there is only about 3 different shirts im looking to get made so any ideas would be awesome. | |
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March 18th, 2009
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| Re: Custom Print Pima Cotton
So you want a fulfilment centre with a pima cotton blank... hmm... tall order, but might be possible.
I'd check to see if Continental Clothing do a pima cotton. Then look for sites like Cafepress that offer Alternative Apparel and/or Continental Clothing. There may not be any.
If you're willing to settle for organic cotton (still nicer than the regular stuff) it would be a lot easier.
One other option would be to post in our Recommendations and Referrals section: a member with a DTG printer might be more flexible about ordering blanks from specific companies (some of the major wholesalers stock Alternative Apparel for example) and custom printing on them.
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