Create you own $2 T-Shirt (+s/h) @ Printfection.com

[quote name='Whambamm']Yesterday, I received the two shirts I ordered and am pretty impressed with the quality of the print on the shirt. I made my brother a shirt with the picture of the Simon's Quest box art and myself one with the cover of the Jeff Buckley album Grace.[/quote]
I have a couple questions about the quality of the print that I was hoping you could help me out with...

Is the image made with a sort of paint on top of the shirt?

Is it more similar to ink that sinks into the fabric of the shirt?

Is it shiny like an iron-on or matte (dull)?

Is there a sort of clear stuff in the image where there is no color, as though they printed it out and placed it on the shirt?

Most importantly, does it look like a shirt (quality-wise) that you bought at a store?

EDIT: Sorry I'm being so picky about these questions, I recently designed a couple things I want silk-screened onto a shirt and if this is the right quality, I'm going to print up a bunch of them for myself and friends.
 
[quote name='supershammy']I have a couple questions about the quality of the print that I was hoping you could help me out with...

Is the image made with a sort of paint on top of the shirt?

Is it more similar to ink that sinks into the fabric of the shirt?

Is it shiny like an iron-on or matte (dull)?

Is there a sort of clear stuff in the image where there is no color, as though they printed it out and placed it on the shirt?

Most importantly, does it look like a shirt (quality-wise) that you bought at a store?[/QUOTE]

It seems to be ink, not an iron on. As for the quality of the shirt, it's not as good as you would buy in a clothing store, but it's not an undershirt either. To tell the truth, it's the quality of shirt you would buy to paint on or tie-dye, as uninformative as that sounds, but that's the only way I can describe it.
 
[quote name='xplode427']anyone wanna post pics of shirts they received?[/QUOTE]

I just ordered today but I'll post when I get it.
 
[quote name='Whambamm']It seems to be ink, not an iron on. As for the quality of the shirt, it's not as good as you would buy in a clothing store, but it's not an undershirt either. To tell the truth, it's the quality of shirt you would buy to paint on or tie-dye, as uninformative as that sounds, but that's the only way I can describe it.[/quote]

Thank you Whambamm! That is very much appreciated.
 
For $7 I'll happily make an old pop culture reference!

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[quote name='Strell']Truly, miracles do happen.

*sniff*[/quote]

PM me a reminder and I'll send you the full sized png with a nice transparent BG. ;)
 
Gift for the wife? :lol:

[quote name='javeryh']Too bad they only offer white... cafepress is pretty good but it's pricey.

I've been dying to get this one:

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i couldn't resist.... got this made for my little bro... to see if anyone would make fun of him on base!

front pocket
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and back
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I saw them doing this at an anime convention. I'm not sure if it is the same company, but the quality was decent. This is a great deal. I usually pay about 15-18 dollar a shirt in stores, why not get 2 and 1/2 self-made shirts for that price?
 
[quote name='georox']
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Shirt! It was made.[/QUOTE]

sweet.

And by chance does that tag say gilman?

I have had a lot of cheap shirts made by them and they weren't too bad.
 
[quote name='mr ryles']sweet.

And by chance does that tag say gilman?

I have had a lot of cheap shirts made by them and they weren't too bad.[/quote]
Gildan Ultra Cotton

*edit, typed Gildran not Gildan*
 
I think it's actually Gildan, but yeah I have a bunch of their Ts as well. It's a good quality shirt, but it isn't very soft.

As for CafePress, they suck ass. Granted, the idea is awesome - get anything printed on anything and make money - but their prints suck ass. Here's a perfect example, my Free ODB shirt, next to my new Printfection shirt and a shirt I bought at a store:

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As you can see, the CafePress shirt has this terrible 'invisible' box around the printed image - a glaring indicator of cheap iron-on quality. The Snack Attack shirt, on the other hand, has no outline of where the image was printed and then screened on to the shirt - the colors dont blur together, it looks like a very clean screen print, that sinks into the fabric like an ink would. It feels like fabric to the touch. The Nintendo shirt was screenprinted with some sort of paint; it has a slight reflective quality as a result of the use of paint and feels smooth to to the touch. You probably have a shirt printed like the Nintendo shirt, but I've only had one shirt that I bought at a store that was printed like the Printfection shirt. Lastly, the colors don't exactly match the image I gave them, which was CMYK. The yellow on the cupcake wrapper is more yellow than it should be, as in the original image I gave them it was more tan. No biggie for me though.

All in all, it is a great quality for the price (that of a shirt bought at a store), and it is lightyears beyond the quality of CafePress. Which is shit.
 
I just placed a second order, hope they don't catch on, because I wanted to try a 2-sided one before I do real orders...
 
[quote name='supershammy']I think it's actually Gildan, but yeah I have a bunch of their Ts as well. It's a good quality shirt, but it isn't very soft.

As for CafePress, they suck ass. Granted, the idea is awesome - get anything printed on anything and make money - but their prints suck ass. Here's a perfect example, my Free ODB shirt, next to my new Printfection shirt and a shirt I bought at a store:

snackattackshirt.jpg


As you can see, the CafePress shirt has this terrible 'invisible' box around the printed image - a glaring indicator of cheap iron-on quality. The Snack Attack shirt, on the other hand, has no outline of where the image was printed and then screened on to the shirt - the colors dont blur together, it looks like a very clean screen print, that sinks into the fabric like an ink would. It feels like fabric to the touch. The Nintendo shirt was screenprinted with some sort of paint; it has a slight reflective quality as a result of the use of paint and feels smooth to to the touch. You probably have a shirt printed like the Nintendo shirt, but I've only had one shirt that I bought at a store that was printed like the Printfection shirt. Lastly, the colors don't exactly match the image I gave them, which was CMYK. The yellow on the cupcake wrapper is more yellow than it should be, as in the original image I gave them it was more tan. No biggie for me though.

All in all, it is a great quality for the price (that of a shirt bought at a store), and it is lightyears beyond the quality of CafePress. Which is shit.[/QUOTE]

Your ODB Shirt looks like it was "printed" using their heat transfer method which gives it that shiny look as well. CafePress does "Direct Printing" also which is the same method PrintFection is using. So I think the problem was the method of printing chosen in the Printing Options not CafePress.
 
As promised, here is a pic of the shirt that I made.

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I shrunk it down to 1024 but it's still a bit big so I linked to the picture instead of embedding it.

The tee came out very well. I can see myself making a lot more tees if the price was better. $13 and $5 shipping is a little steep for my tastes.
 
Could anyone here make this image a little bigger?

It is showing up too small on the sizing chart and it keeps saying the resolution will be poor.

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Shirt 1: FSM shirt, status: recieved
Shirt 2: WoW shirt, status: recieved
Shirt 3: Another FSM shirt, Global Warming Chart, status: just ordered tonight.
 
[quote name='whoknows']:applause: :applause: :applause:

You don't want to share the image file with me, do ya? ;)[/quote]

:lol: Sure, my internet is fucked up though, send Strell a PM and see if he still has a copy.
 
[quote name='RawisJericho']Could anyone here make this image a little bigger?

It is showing up too small on the sizing chart and it keeps saying the resolution will be poor.

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I would if it was yours but it's not, it's Jon Hillier's.
 
[quote name='hollowfreak']I would if it was yours but it's not, it's Jon Hillier's.[/QUOTE]

I sincerely doubt..ooooooh name drop..Jon Hiller....ooooooh name drop paid TMNT creators or the movie studios $2000000 in royalties for some colored eye masks and names of famous artists.
 
[quote name='sarausagi']I sincerely doubt..ooooooh name drop..Jon Hiller....ooooooh name drop paid TMNT creators or the movie studios $2000000 in royalties for some colored eye masks and names of famous artists.[/QUOTE]

He doesn't have to -- that's fair use. This would be unfair use.
 
[quote name='seanw']He doesn't have to -- that's fair use. This would be unfair use.[/quote]

So what would you call using the images of the Simpsons, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, etc? Unfair use? I know for a fact no one here owns the rights to use that stuff.
 
[quote name='VipFREAK']Hmm... All I need to do now is find a really big version of...

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I found one with a white background, I posted it earlier in the thread....

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Meh... I wanted one that was on a black t-shirt and big. There's an EMO store here called Hot Topic that had it but the logo was made out of "gears of war" in the form of the logo. That and they wanted too much for just a shirt... Gay.
 
[quote name='RawisJericho']So what would you call using the images of the Simpsons, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, etc? Unfair use? I know for a fact no one here owns the rights to use that stuff.[/QUOTE]

Yes but no. I think it's one thing to put copyrighted material on a T-shirt that isn't already on a T-shirt -- I might go so far as to call that an art project, and more power to you. That "Turtles" shirt is already a shirt -- a shirt that's for sale from a store that I think compensates t-shirt designers very fairly. That's stealing bread out from under the shirt designer's nose -- uncool.
 
[quote name='seanw']Yes but no. I think it's one thing to put copyrighted material on a T-shirt that isn't already on a T-shirt -- I might go so far as to call that an art project, and more power to you. That "Turtles" shirt is already a shirt -- a shirt that's for sale from a store that I think compensates t-shirt designers very fairly. That's stealing bread out from under the shirt designer's nose -- uncool.[/quote]

But what if the shirt design is "retired" and isn't for sale? He isn't making any money from that shirt design on the threadless site anymore.
 
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