For those that are new, each year we have a t-shirt design contest here at T-ShirtForums and the wining designer wins a cool cash prize and their design gets printed and given out to forum members with X amount of posts.
Each year has a different theme. This year's winning design entry on the theme of "POTENTIAL" was "Open Your Eyes" by sharonses
There were a couple of things holding up the printing of this cool design:
The complexity of the design. As you can see in the mockup, the design sort of wraps around from the front to the back.
So we had to find a skilled printer who would be able to tackle and print this high end style placement.
We found exactly what we need in Dallas, Texas based screen printers Pony Printing. If you check their blog, you can see they have the skills to handle all types of speciality high end screen printing techniques.
After working with the team at Pony Printing (PXP Inc), I'm confident that the finished t-shirts will be well worth the wait.
They will be screen printed with water based inks so it will be hard to tell the ink from the t-shirt
We wanted to use a top of the line blank t-shirt to really showcase the printing.
One of our forum sponsors, Bare Apparel (usa based manufacturers of high end fashion forward blank t-shirts) was kind enough to donate the blank garments for the order.
One reason why we picked Bare Apparel was their ability to supply the printer with what's known as a "butterflied t-shirt". This is a t-shirt that is open on the sides so they can be easily printed with jumbo or all over prints. After the t-shirt is printed, the garment is then sewn back together (either by the screen printer or by the manufacturer) to make a complete finished product!
Bare Apparel recently completed a move from AZ to setup offices closer to their Los Angeles based production center. Now that the dust has settled down and the shirt sizes needed are all tallied, the garments will be sent to Pony Printing and scheduled for production.
I'll check with PXP, but hopefully the t-shirts can be printed within the next few weeks.
Thanks for your patience. If anyone has any questions at all, please feel free to post them here
Re: UPDATE: Progress on the 2009 EXTRAVAGANZA winning design t-shirts
Yay I cant wait, I love love love that design That is awesome that bare apparel donated the blanks. Very cool.
Hey I wonder if that printing place would make a little video of one of the shirts being printed. That would be really cool to see a butterfly print Ok I can dream right? hehe.
Thanks for the update Rodney, always interesting to see how the whole process comes along.
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