On 26/08/07, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I've been wearing my Wikipedia golf shirt, purchased I believe at Cafe Press, for three years. It is as white as ever and has not suffered in quality.
The main problem with the CafePress process (and that used by most one-off printers) is that it's basically laser-printing to a shirt, i.e. toner particles melted into the fibres. This can work very well indeed, but is not going to be as good as silk-screen printing, which becomes cost-effective at a few tens of shirts or so.
Of course, the other thing you're buying from CafePress is having someone do all the ordering, packing and posting backend - not just making sure you don't have a stock of maybe-saleable shirts.
- d.