Custom T-Shirt printing?

imyj

Hey there,

I'm looking to design some t-shirts for myself and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for online websites which allow you to upload your own designs? I'm from the UK too, so preferably from there.

I see Polycount uses Spreadshirt, have people been happy with the quality?

Cheers,
imyj

MattQ86

If you're looking to just print one shirt I'd suggest onehourtees.com or a site like it.

imyj

I'm from the UK so I'd probably get charged out of the a-hole for delivery. Do they even accept PayPal now?

daphz

I'm interested in the shirt thing too, a lot of sites limit the size of the images you can put on, which annoys me because I want the entire front of the shirt to be covered.
I found this a while back:
http://www.theteehive.com/
looks okay but meh...

imyj

I came across this one too: http://www.shirtcity.com/

I saw some video reviews for Spreadsheet and the quality didn't look too good but it could have just been the default printing.

daphz

http://www.customink.com/ isnt bad, a friend used it last year, we only got text and a small logo, but nice quality.

Japhir

i recently had a shirt printed through some dutch website (which probably isn't of interest to you), but it was cool that they asked me for the vector file so they could print it in higher quality. Turned out pretty cool .
Based (ripped basically) from the book "Le Petit Prince".



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rooster

i tried spreadshirt recently and the result was good. limited to 3 colours for vector stuff mind. Sometimes designs benefit from a bold and simple approach though

imyj

Thanks for the replies peeps

I'll check out some of those links. Maybe I'll try a few places with the same design and see what the quality is like. I'm keen to find a place I can rely on. There's something cool about designing your own stuff; it means if it shrinks or DIES then you can just get a reprint I'll probably even try locally.

If anyone else has any suggestions for UK-friendly print places then let me know.

sebas

This is another one... www.CafePress.co.uk

Slum

Check out http://www.mysoti.com/mysoti/home

A few years ago they were called Bountee. I used them for some on-demand printing of a few shirts. I like them because they are not screenprinted, they are a special type of inkjet printing. So you can order smaller volumes cheaper. I don't know how they run now, since I havent hused them since their rebranding, but my experience about 4 years ago was great.

Wells

I've always used Spreadshirt when not just screenprinting them myself.

rooster

fyi, I got one from cafepress too and didn't reccomend them because the printing was pretty wonky, and also it gets shipped from USA (yeah, using .co.uk) so you got a ~9-10 day wait once it ships

Autocon

My polycount shirts are nice. So the people who make those shirts do a pretty good job I guess. 30 bucks for a tshirt that dosnt have the best fabric (aka nice and super soft) is kinda steep though.

Wells

i really don't like cafe-press's quality. shirts were scratchy and print was bad.

spreadshirt custom shirts are generally 15-18 dollars, if i remember correctly. and they print on soft AA shirts

Frump

I've bought so many shirts online over the past year that had the prints wear out and crack after just a few months... It's really frustrating. Are there any good resources which break down the different types of prints and inks?

I've always wanted to make this one shirt. Grey base with a Shaded ball in the center. Underneath it says "Lambert 1". Always thought that would be cool but I never got around to finding a good printing place.

rooster

lol, lambert 1 used to be a dirty word in the early days where I worked, since the engine would crash if if came into contact with anything that had lambert 1 assigned.

the polycount shirts I bought in 2007 are still in good nick, they were from spreadshirt. The flex print on those is beginning to crack in places but I don't look after my shirts, and well, 2007 cmon :P. one thing I noticed with flex print, you'll get cracks much easier with 90degree sharp edges in designs. round them out just a little and they seem to be way more durable. but spreadshirts 3 colour flex limit will make a nice shaded ball tricky.. could do some funky dithering maybe.

digital printing will be less durable, but you get unlimited colours. cafepress let you use it on any colour clothing, but spreadshirt limit you to lighter clothing for it, which is the one downside I see with them

sebas

Frump wrote: »

Are there any good resources which break down the different types of prints and inks?
I've always wanted to make this one shirt. Grey base with a Shaded ball in the center. Underneath it says "Lambert 1".

Well, here you have 'Printing Processes' (from CafePress):
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/index.aspx?page=processes.aspx#

From my experience, I bought some custom bibs for my nephew two months ago, and they look good (so far) ... there's no limitations about the number of colors or shades, but you'll need to fit your design to a preset squared area.

Quokimbo

I have been having the same problem with a design I wanted to get put on a shirt...

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197467_195015363852415_167471653273453_579556_2451038_n.jpg

I found a local place who will do 10 of them for 11 bucks a piece...

jacklee15

Just contact Vista Print, they are best,

log on, http://www.vistaprint.co.nz/t-shirts.aspx

Jack

willbird

I started my own clothing line long ago and this was the company that I used to get cheap printed t-shirts http://www.personalized-tee-shirts.com/

Cody

Jakprints does good work. Can also do all over prints. Have a design cover the entire shirt.

http://www.jakprints.com/t-shirt-printing/

McGreed

Wow, need to make a resurrection-tshirt.