[Foundation-l] Alternatives to Cafepress

[Sean Whitton]

On 26/08/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/08/07, Brian <Brian.Mingus at 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 at 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.