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thejessefactor aka Jesse Cooper is a boy, has been a member since May 8, 2005, has scored 720 submissions, giving an average score of 2.91, helping 7 designs get printed.

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Jul 06 '05 by thejessefactor
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Printing Your Own Shirts?

I've been lurking for a long time around threadless, and I've bought two shirts. I've submitted 4 shirts, all of which got declined. I have another one pending.

My newest submission is something I really love. I mean, I would buy my friends this shirt even if I didn't design it. Because I have no luck, I wouldn't be shocked if threadless wouldn't even put it in the running. My question is: Is there some sort of service that you can print your own shirt with? Can I print this shirt even if the god's of threadless won't even give it a chance?

little_hobbit_feet on Jul 06 '05 at 3:13pm

In your yellow pages, look up "screen printer". Alternately, call print shops and see if they can suggest one.

You usually have a flat fee per colour set-up, plus a certain amount per shirt/per colour (so, say you're getting 20 3-colour shirts: You'd pay for the shirts, you'd pay a flat fee for each colour's set-up, and then you'd pay a little bit each time they put a colour on a shirt.)

Does that make sense?

Alternately, there are resources online that show you how to use a stensil, but unless you're going for a one colour shirt with no fine detailing, I'd suggest going to a professional.

I'ma go ahead and say that you definately have a screen printer in your area, because I live in a town of 20,000 and we have one here. If you can't find it there, look for sign makers. They'll know where to direct you.

thejessefactor on Jul 06 '05 at 3:14pm

I live in South Orange County and will be living in Denver by next week, so I'm sure you're right.

:)

Thanks!

Skipper6745 on Jul 06 '05 at 3:19pm

I think I might look into that. That sounds awesome.

thejessefactor on Jul 06 '05 at 3:22pm

It would be nice to have my rejects!

jublin on Jul 06 '05 at 3:24pm

there is also www.cafepress.com you can put on any image you want onto a select few variety of shirts, but they do run a little expensive. the plus side is that you can have as many colors as you want and it comes out really good quality. i had one done a while ago before i knew about this site and i am very satisfied with the result. definitely worth checking out.

thejessefactor on Jul 06 '05 at 3:25pm

I use cafepress for my site's shirts, but my new submission has a placement issue.

spowag1 on Jul 06 '05 at 3:29pm

http://www.tshirtdeli.com/

this place is kinda neat.. the actual store is down the street from my house..

they will print your image..but i dunno about your special placement.

thejessefactor on Jul 06 '05 at 3:31pm

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2493/takethedivelarge9zp.gif

There's my shirt submission. Do you think they'd print that?

AlecGrieco on Jul 06 '05 at 3:31pm

A LOCAL SCHOOL

granted, Im 17 and have unlimited access, but Grahpics programs at school have nice equipment. before I submitted the man in the moon to threadless its was a sketch of mine I used to make a shirt in my school as my Senior Project. The pic is in my profile.

http://www.threadless.com/profile/127296/AlecGrieco

jublin on Jul 06 '05 at 3:36pm

cafe press wouldnt be able to print that because of the placement. you can basically only put it on the center and it can't be too big. there are some restrictions but you can still sometimes get some good stugg out of it.

spowag1 on Jul 06 '05 at 3:40pm

i dunno ..you 'd have to check with the site...

is the guy diving off a bridge for fun? or killing himself?

thejessefactor on Jul 06 '05 at 3:43pm

Could be taken either way.

The shirt was designed to represent that most suicides go unnoticed, thus the faceless characted jumping off the bridge. It can also be taken that "taking the dive" can be exhillerating but dangerous.

However you want it.

AlecGrieco on Jul 06 '05 at 3:45pm

customink.com

spowag1 on Jul 06 '05 at 3:49pm

i don't think most suicides go unnoticed.. i think it's more like the fact that it's the #1 or 2 killer among young adults is what goes unnoticed

thejessefactor on Jul 06 '05 at 3:51pm

However you take the shirt is fine with me :). I really dig it, and it took me a while to design, so I hope you like it. I'm not trying to make a statement.