Hey So i was wanting to try invest in having some of my designs printed up, I have never doen this before and am pretty new to the whole thing, I was jsut hoping that someone could give me some advice....
I am curious of what I should be looking for, and where to look if you have any good suggestions... I have been searching aroudn for the most affordable, but I don’t know what makes the quality as good as I can get for the best price....
if anyone has any tips or suggestions, i would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!
10 Comments
Tender Branson said 4 months ago
Sorry, can’t help. Too busy fighting in Manticore thread.
But no really, from what I’ve seen on here Jimmy (Heartcore) does a lot of shirts for people on Emptees and has amazing quality. (But don’t ask him for 24, 6 color print shirts).
I believe this is his site: http://www.printmytees.com/
Matt Rupp said 4 months ago
There are a ton of suggestions I could give you in this topic.
Mainly I would not go directly off of prices to decide who you will go with to print.
Some printshops are super cheap but there is a good chance they use terrible ink and the shirts they use are not the best quality. A lot of printshops that do a great job are reasonably priced.
Check out who their past clients have been--if they have worked with some decent companies there is a good chance they will do legitimate work.
Also, don’t be afraid to contact them! Its good to have a positive interaction with the person who is handling your shirts.
Killer Napkins said 4 months ago
thanks both! .. i wil check into jimmy’s for sure... thanks for some tips all for love.
MadeByMAS said 4 months ago
I can hook you up with great prices.
email me and we can talk about it:
info@makeascenenow.com
sblake said 4 months ago
When you decide on a print shop. You can save a few bucks by suppling your own shirts and film positives.. just make sure your colour seps are correct!
Derisory Designs said 4 months ago
I’d have to disagree with you about saving money by supplying your own shirts. Unless you have a resellers account so that you can get wholesale prices AND live within driving distance of the print shop you decide to go with, there’s no way you could supply the shirts cheaper than your printer can get them for you. In addition, most printers by overages, say 10% more than what they actually need, in case of a soiled shirt from the manufacturer, a shirt not coming out looking perfect, etc. these are shirts that the customer isn’t paying for. however if the customer supplied the shirts, he would be expected to supply the overage, at cost to him, with little chance of getting them back.
EDIT: I just noticed you work at a print shop too, so I apologize for explaining something to you that you probably already know, but i still don’t think in most instances that it would be cheaper for the customer to supply their own shirts.
sblake said 4 months ago
I’m going to disagree with your disagreement. Haha..
If you design and sell shirts (A LOT!!), you can get an account with a wholesaler, no problem. The wholesaler will ship your shirts directly to the print shop of your choice.
If your print shop is fucking up 10% of your run I would find a new printer. That is pretty high, we run at about 3% at the shop I own. It will still be cheaper than buying shirts via the print shop as the mark up is 300%.
Just saying!
Now, if your not running shirts every month or only in it for the minute then yeah just go thru the print shop.. I’m just saying how to save some money.. actually a lot of money!
The absolute best ways to keep costs down.. is to print them yourselves!
Cheers..
S.
Derisory Designs said 4 months ago
Ahh, i see, the markup. I didn’t factor that in cause when i print i don’t apply any markup for the tees. I also tend to print smaller runs, under 100 typically, so a 10% overage is usually just 1-5 shirts percentage wise.
justinryan said 4 months ago
Yeah, it is actually fairly easy to get a wholesale account these days.
downrodeo said 5 days ago
bump bump