Profile for d3d - so i just recieved my select in the mail

d3d aka Leon is a 34.12 year old boy, has been a member since August 23, 2005, has scored 15639 submissions, giving an average score of 2.18.

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Jun 10 '09 by d3d

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so i just recieved my select in the mail

my dad insisted i order him a copy, and it's about the worst quality print i've ever seen from threadless.
i'd come to accept that they fucked up by not printing the foil as intended, but this isn't even as good as a regular shirt. it's all pixelated and the ink is full of tiny pinprick holes, as if it was printed through a screen door instead of silk. maybe that's another symptom of the simulated process they used to achieve the butt ugly grey gradient that took the place of the intended foil, and the colours are really harsh and cheap looking. either way i hate it. i hope nobody else is as disappointed as i am.

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ISABOA on Jun 10 '09 at 2:45pm

Maybe with selects they should take a bunch of photos (including close ups) of a sample printed shirt and send them to the artist for approval - it would take a day or two (not that a delay in the select process would effect anything) and it would head off these problems in the future.

It would be nice if all printed shirts could get a visual once over before they print 2K but I understand logistically that would be tough - but for selects, it could just be part of the whole plan ya know?

I hear ya about your simple design olie, I was in a similar spot with abe.

Kookaberry on Jun 10 '09 at 2:50pm

There's been a fair number of times where I've liked a design and then not liked how it wound up being printed. It's prevented me from a number of purchases. I wonder why Threadless doesn't touch work with designers when they decide to change the print size/location/color etc. I understand that there are often limitations but I guess I think it would be nice for the designers to be aware of the changes and allowed input through the whole process.

Kookaberry on Jun 10 '09 at 2:52pm

*touch base with designers

kashlen on Jun 10 '09 at 2:52pm

Yeah I was surprised when LOL didn't take up the whole shirt like on the sub.

olie! on Jun 10 '09 at 2:54pm

Kooka, couldn't agree with you more. If they are going to change a design the least they could do is let us know.

Also, for what it's worth I fricking LOVE abe, and I think it turned out pretty damn good. It's a bit smaller than the presentation made it on guy's shirts, but only a bit.

ivejustquitsmoking on Jun 10 '09 at 2:55pm

yeah, I wish lol wrapped around and on mint

kashlen on Jun 10 '09 at 2:56pm

I still love LOL though...I got it Monday :)

Kookaberry on Jun 10 '09 at 2:57pm

Well I didn't want to complain but I did feel like our design lost a bit of what made it neat when they made the changes.

Kookaberry on Jun 10 '09 at 2:57pm

I still haven't bought a copy, haha. I was waiting for the sale and then it didn't go on sale =| so I'll probably just buy a few this week.

kashlen on Jun 10 '09 at 2:58pm

haha it was def too new to go on sale!

ISABOA on Jun 10 '09 at 2:59pm

yeah - they actually had to go smaller with abe because they wanted it for abe's birthday and the oversize printing takes longer.

And really I didn't mind to much on that one - I think it would have sold better if the pistols looked more like suspenders as was the intent - but no big deal.

it was another shirt that was flat out a mess that made me cry and wanna give up the whole endeavor. I am uncomfortably close to having a hissy fit so I am gonna leave this train of thought and go think about wheeled warriors and 14th century chivalry in franch

kashlen on Jun 10 '09 at 3:01pm

lol

abe's bday = my bday

I should buy it but it isn't too feminine haha

Robsoul on Jun 10 '09 at 10:58pm

oversized printing also costs a lot more. wrap around prints, jeez, nightmare in quality control and costing.

there are certain things that I can understand them changing, yet there are others I don't.

worst prints yet have come from teefury... those things are bullet proof (as in huge amounts of ink) and the sizing is always whacked, either too big or too small. but mainly it's their cheap shitty inks, I can't be bothered to buy from them.

threadless has always had quality prints techniques, besides the color changes and sizing issues.

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squatterjohn on Jun 15 '09 at 2:51am

I just got mine. I think the whole thing was printed simulated process, not just the supposed-to-be-foil-gradient. There are dots everywhere. It was a stupid way to print all the other colours. I still think it looks good but they've really made some mistakes. You'll probably think it looks worse, because you know how you imgined it to look in your head. I'm sure most people would be happy with it if they never knew that these mistakes were made, but overall it's kind of disappointing. I can imagine it looking a lot better.

mz. kat-ii on Jun 15 '09 at 2:59am

thats kinda weird if its simulated process cuz on the product page it says "8-color screen print" :/

squatterjohn on Jun 15 '09 at 3:09am

Maybe, I don't know enough about printing I guess. There's something wrong with the colours though, they don't look the way they should on other t-shirts.

Bramish on Jun 15 '09 at 3:44am

My only Threadless Sim Process shirt is Slides (which I bought cos I'm in it!)

I won't lie - the photos look crappy.

d3d on Jun 15 '09 at 4:08am

no i think john is right. i'd dare say the whole thing is sim process. spot colours wouldn't look that bad.

radiostaticstar on Jun 15 '09 at 4:11am

man that really sucks.

d3d on Jun 15 '09 at 4:13am

Bramish on Jun 15 '09 at 4:23am

Slut

radiostaticstar on Jun 15 '09 at 4:27am

it looks like one of those blankets you order with your picture from the one hour photo at the drug store for 50 bucks...
:(

Kookaberry on Jun 15 '09 at 4:30am

Yeah I've seen a couple sim process shirts. This definitely appears to be all printed sim process.

tesco on Jun 15 '09 at 5:14am

inhale, exhale - just got an unsatisfactory select print in the mail

staffell on Jun 15 '09 at 5:18am

hahaha stuart

ginetteginette on Jun 15 '09 at 7:28am

i think that's just what it looks like when you print on dark shirts sometines. it doesn't look sim processed to me, it just looks like you can see the texture of the shirt through the paint. that's all. it's not like it was printed with plastisols, right? that shit is thick.

ginetteginette on Jun 15 '09 at 7:29am

also: that doesn't look at all bad to me.

d3d on Jun 15 '09 at 7:45am

thanks, but it's not shirt texture. i guess the photo isn't great but it's actually a grid of tiny circular holes.

ginetteginette on Jun 15 '09 at 7:56am

in that case, that's really weird because it's definitely one colour, dunno why they'd choose to halftone it.

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