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Sunshine210

And, how did it go?

Worst idea ever is not Spanish at 7:30, especially if a natural morning person.

Cruelty is having a great art history prof you like to the point you do not want to miss anything. But you just had lunch. It is warm for the SF Bay Area in a large auditorium with no AC, just windows open. The lights dim and you remember you are stuck in week two of Northern Renny slides what with people nailed to crosses bleeding and all. You have had an attitude since leaving study of the Southern Renny and you try to force yourself to look at slide after slide until.....

And the snoring of all the others does eventually bring the lights up.

Not sure I know any shirt printers so busy they would turn down work because the color scheme is bad. Isn't Threadless one of those sites that promises to make you a star if your design is cool and has some smug critics looking over your designs? I didn't think they were a shirt printer per se.

As mentioned in my post, you probably hit on a couple that knew you were not going to do a run of five color screenprinting. And/or the green shirt color scared off DTG printers that cannot print a layer of white first on dark colors. Your colors will look quite awful on a green shirt without white behind it if printed with DTG technology. You will be fine if screenprinting opaque ink but will very soon have an expensive tee shirt on hand if your plan is to recover costs and sell things.

Do you have your heart set on the teeshirt image being so long on the shirt or could you adapt your design to say a 12x12 or 8.5x11 printed area? At least to see if it works? My local DTG folk can go 15x15 or a bit larger than 12x12. Thermal transfers come in sheets to feed through printers so are going to be 8.5x11.

Why not try the heat transfers to start? Make sure to get fresh ones and if you want to stick with the green shirt fabric get the ones made for dark fabrics. They are outrageous but you do not need a lot for experiments. I think 5-8 sheets will set you back $20 or so. Hobby stores tend to have shirt stock too. Otherwise you can buy nice t-shirts in colors online for cheap.

I personally would rinse any manufacturer's starch and extra dye out of a new t-shirt. Then iron at least area getting the image flat. Apply the transfer. An iron will work fine with patience. If thermal transfers become part of your shirt business, you will be buying transfers in bulk and transferring them with an iron will get old, really fast (and have you in for repetitive motion injury too!). You will need to invest in a heat press.

Happy to provide some names of people to print your shirts if that would help. I don't want this site to think I am advertising them so private message me and I will send some names.

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