Making shirts on Cafepress

I wanted to create a few designs mainly for myself I figured there might be a few people out there that wold like the shirts as well. Has anyone created t-shirts and stuff on cafepress?

Keep me posted Sparky !

I haven't, but I used customink.com once.For what I designed/bought, I coulda had more shirts done for the same price locally.

http://www.cafepress.com/PCHCofficialGRM/4921517

http://www.cafepress.com/PCHCofficialGRM.339675029

http://www.cafepress.com/PCHCofficialGRM.233011655

Overall print quality is a bit "light" but they are decent.

Are they silkscreen or one of those inkjet iron on dealies?

They're an iron-on as far as I can tell, printed and produced on demand. I've used them a fair bit.

I've found that Spreadshirt does a better job if you're looking for something that can be done in simple colors. They do more of a silkscreen style print with much better ink transfer. They're like Cafepress in that it's print-on-demand with a custom storefront, so you don't have to sink a bunch of cash into shirts that may or may not sell.

Keith wrote: I've found that Spreadshirt does a better job if you're looking for something that can be done in simple colors.

Also look at http://www.zazzle.com/ They do the same thing

Keith wrote: They do more of a silkscreen style print with much better ink transfer. They're like Cafepress in that it's print-on-demand with a custom storefront, so you don't have to sink a bunch of cash into shirts that may or may not sell.

They are probably using heat set vinyl. Print on demand with real silk screen would either mean making new screens every time an order came in ($$) or having a huge storage area for all the screens.

The heatset vinyl is pretty good stuff for simple designs with a few colors. Its just like working with regular vinyl, run it through the cutter (image mirrored) and weed out the excess then press it on with a T-shirt press. I've used it a few times and once you get a feel for how much time and heat it takes you can get pretty good results. Still tedious for anything in bulk though, silkscreen still rules for that.

I thought I remembered it being a vinyl. Nice, crisp graphics - I was quite happy with the results.

Spreadshirt, Zazzle, Cafepress - they're not really for bulk. They're for small run stuff, easily customizable. Great for race teams or bands, though.

I've used Cafepress for a couple shirts before. They look good when they arrive, but the one I have doesn't hold up well to repeated washings. My shirt was supposed to look kind of '70s, and now it looks considerably more like it was made in 1978 than I had intended.

I have bought a shirt from there before and it held up ok. I will look at some of the other sites as well.