I spent all afternoon/evening at the shop yesterday cutting my teeth on the screen press and printed out 90 shirts. (not very efficient yet...
) I have three different one color designs on the fronts that I'll be offering and my brand logo on the back of the left shirt tail of every shirt and am happy with the way they turned out for the most part.
I've worked out an arrangement with a local screen printer so I'm using his equipment and its pretty nice (4x4 with micro adjustments). The platens I'm working with have grids put on them which is cool... but they're not exactly identical and I'm not sure that they're all straight. Personally, I've always had problems drawing straight and level lines so I was having a hard time getting the hang of it.
So after all this, there were obviously shirts that were clearly off center/not straight... (about 10%) and some that were marginal/questionable. My question is that if a mistake is not glaringly obvious, but because I'm critical of my work I see it, should I sell the shirt? The guy I'm working with has been doing it for almost two years and said that I was stressing out too much but I don't really want to ship out bunk shirts that get sent back to me, know what I mean? On the other hand, if I go by my seemingly extraordinary standards, then I won't have too many shirts to sell...
Any recommendations?
I've worked out an arrangement with a local screen printer so I'm using his equipment and its pretty nice (4x4 with micro adjustments). The platens I'm working with have grids put on them which is cool... but they're not exactly identical and I'm not sure that they're all straight. Personally, I've always had problems drawing straight and level lines so I was having a hard time getting the hang of it.
So after all this, there were obviously shirts that were clearly off center/not straight... (about 10%) and some that were marginal/questionable. My question is that if a mistake is not glaringly obvious, but because I'm critical of my work I see it, should I sell the shirt? The guy I'm working with has been doing it for almost two years and said that I was stressing out too much but I don't really want to ship out bunk shirts that get sent back to me, know what I mean? On the other hand, if I go by my seemingly extraordinary standards, then I won't have too many shirts to sell...
Any recommendations?