reado

Hey.

I've been trying to create a T-shirt website while trying to avoid digital printing (as I've been lead to believe that they produce lower quality t-shirts).

This lead me to begin using spreadshirt for the flock and flex printing services. However since they are extremely restrictive on how many colours you can use and also on what can and can't be printed I've head a dead end.

Does anyone know of a decent t shirt site that offers similar services to Spreadshirt?

Thanks.

 

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splathead

Check out printmojo.com. they use silkscreening.

 

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reado

Oh thanks.

I was considering PrintMojo but since I want to do this as a hobby I was looking for drop shipping as well.

I guess I can't have everything! :P

 

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splathead

They drop ship.

 

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reado

Ah yes sorry my mistake. I meant print on demand.

 

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nycmerch

How many are you printing on demand at a time? a dozen or two? More?

 

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Rodney

Quote: I've been trying to create a T-shirt website while trying to avoid digital printing (as I've been lead to believe that they produce lower quality t-shirts).

Print on Demand will always be done by "digital printing".

Digital printing could mean DTG, sometimes it means dye sublimation, sometimes it means heat transfers.

I wouldn't get put off by some reports of the quality of digital printing. The print on demand places like Zazzle, Spreadshirt, CafePress print for 1000's of customers a day and get lots of repeat business and high customer ratings.

Because they have such a high volume of customers, you will see reports of bad prints, but that will be true for just about any company.

Overall, the printing from those companies is very high, and mistakes are the exception, not the norm.

If you want printing on demand, then cafepress, zazzle, printfection, spreadshirt, etc are the way to go.

Screen printing will not be done as a print on demand service. It's just too labor intensive and has a totally different setup process than DTG, dye sub, flex or other types of digital printing.

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reado

Hmm ok so would you suggest that digital printing would be fine and that I should not worry digital printing and just go for that?


Also I am setting this up for a hobby and have no idea how many t-shirts I would be printing at a time. So the cheapest and easiest set up is probably the best.

 

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nycmerch

if you dont have any idea of what you are looking at for runsd.. which means you can be printing one or 2 shirts at a time... DTG is the only option.

Good luck with it.

 

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Rodney

Quote: Originally Posted by reado Hmm ok so would you suggest that digital printing would be fine and that I should not worry digital printing and just go for that? Also I am setting this up for a hobby and have no idea how many t-shirts I would be printing at a time. So the cheapest and easiest set up is probably the best.

Yes, I would suggest that you try out digital printing

Since there are generally no minimums, all you have to do is upload your design and buy one from one (or more) of the print on demand services like printfection, spreadshirt, cafepress, zazzle, etc and see how you like it. They all stand behind their products.

If you want low startup and no minimums, it's pretty much the only way to go.

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reado

Okay thanks guys. I'll just have to sacrifice my desire to be a perfectionist just this once.

 

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