So i am (trying) to start a shirt buisness and am looking to find a good place where I can send in my designs to them and have them print it on a shirt then I guess dropship them to the customer or something (still trying to work it out). My questions are as follows.
- is this a good strategy ?
- is there a place that can print my designs while being cheap enough to get a profit without charging high on my shirts.
-how to ship to customers
-Is there another way to make a buisness in selling shirt designs
thanks!!
Firstly can I ask, what sort of process will you be using (Screen printing, Heat Transfer, Sublimation, DTG)?
Also depends on the type of designs you have (wether they are fully detailed, intricate patterns, wording)?
Where abouts are you located?
I think I need to find out about these before I can advise you further.
I was kinda in the same position. I had many ideas and many designs all i wanted to do was to put them all on to T Shirts, but hadn't done any research. When I come across this site most of my questions/ actually I think all my questions were answered by reading through the posts.
Know what process you will use and I'm sure you'll find all your answers here.
Good Luck! Hope this helped.
Please correct me if I'm wrong anyone or add what I've missed out.
I was mostly thinking of another place doing the shirt printing for me, but it might be a possibility that I could do that. As for the method I was thinking of screen printing, but if theres a way to do some good heat transfer or other methods that would be good to look into..
- Im currently living in central utah
And for the designs.. The category I was mainly going for is simple humorous shirts and such, probly 1-3 colored.
Hope that answers your questions and thanks bunches for helping me =). I have been looking around and reseaching but im very new to basically everything about production, selling, distribution, and stuff like that
check out jakprints.com they do screen printing and dropship. some memebers on here have given good reviews. i plan on using them in the future but havent yet.
Im looking at thier website and I can't find what thier minimum is and what it costs for lower orders of say 10 shirts. Because I don't think I can do 50-100 prints of a shirt. So if you found that anywhere on thier site that'd be cool, cause I can't find it anywhere..
edit: I think there's a 25 minimum, so how would you make that work on your shirt selling site.. So if 1 person orders the shirt you get 24 left you hope others buy? That's my delema O.o
Last edited by Kavoral; April 11th, 2008 at 08:26 PM.
Why don't you try Heat Transfer. It's a good way of doing 1 off designs and even a small run of designs. Your overheads will be low and it is possible to achieve good results. Like a print on demand thing. Maybe this way you won't have to outsource your designs or dropship.
Im looking at thier website and I can't find what thier minimum is and what it costs for lower orders of say 10 shirts. Because I don't think I can do 50-100 prints of a shirt. So if you found that anywhere on thier site that'd be cool, cause I can't find it anywhere..
edit: I think there's a 25 minimum, so how would you make that work on your shirt selling site.. So if 1 person orders the shirt you get 24 left you hope others buy? That's my delema O.o
Its going to be very hard to start a t shirt business without any risk. I can understand that you dont want to spend a lot of money, but its difficult to make money if you dont spend any.
edit: I think there's a 25 minimum, so how would you make that work on your shirt selling site.. So if 1 person orders the shirt you get 24 left you hope others buy? That's my delema O.o
Yes, that's part of the risk of selling t-shirts.
You could try a place that "prints on demand", which would alleviate the risk of having too much inventory, but it wouldn't be "screen printing". It would be direct to garment printing.
You should already have a marketing plan and advertising plan in place if you plan on starting to sell t-shirts.
Put together a business plan to help minimize the risk of getting into something that you can't market.
I second the heat transfer press, you'll be able to print on demand and will not have a surplus of a design that proves to be unpopular. Plus if you're working out of your home your business won't take up too much space and (hopefully) less messy than screenprinting!
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