Re: Cafepress, or?

On Jun 8, 2006, at 1:06 PM, elein wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:57:00PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Now that we have an official place to collect money, and some t-
>>> shirt designs,
>>> I wanted to set up something like a CafePress site for PG
>>> paraphenalia.
>>>
>>> However, I've heard some grumbles about CafePress quality. Are
>>> there real
>>> complaints? If so, are there alternatives?
>>
>> I've had issues with cafepress quality. The shirts tend to fade
>> pretty
>> quickly.
>>
>> I've got http://lnk.nu/spreadshirt.com/9ul.php and it's held up well.
>> One issue is there's some glitch where the front graphic shows up
>> wrong
>> in the detail section (the inside is actually white, not red).
>> Also, the
>> process used is more like an iron-on, whereas cafepress uses some
>> kind
>> of screen printing process. The upside is a lot more color
>> options; the
>> downside is the shirt doesn't breath through the graphic.
>
> Iron-ons also are tacky and get cracked and wrinkled in the wash.
> Screen
> printing is better. I have no opinions on cafepress, etc.--just on
> the
> iron-ons. Ugh!

Well, it's not actually an iron-on. They call it 'flex print',
whatever exactly that means. It's kind-of a step between an iron-on
and screen printing.

If anyone's curious about it, I can bring the shirt to the anniversary.
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