On 26/08/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I haven't actually got a T-shirt myself as I said so I am encouraged by what you say about them being of reasonable quality. The things I have bought are a calendar and a mug which we okay, but nothing special. After what you have said I may consider buying one, but I do know of a shop in town.
Perhaps there is a difference between the different types of T-shirt they produce?
On 26/08/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree it is not a priority from a "revenue" point of view; This said, from a consumer point of view, the quality is a little bit more important than "revenue" :-)
I agree with this, for the team-building you mentioned. Also, if people are wearing T-shirts who are involved, other people in Real Life are going to ask about it, and then awareness of us is going to profit. Unless we open a clothing chain I don't think are ever going to earn a lot in terms of cash from something like this, so our priority should be as you say to get the other, more social benefits.
Btw I am highly amused by the slogan of "capitalism done right" on GoodStorm.