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Offline Suicidal Fish

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Making T-Shirts
« on: November 11, 2014, 06:13:53 am »
I thought about making my own T-Shirts.

This is in BI as I wanted to rip off known brands to guarantee a sale.

Does anybody know how to make t-shirts yourself?
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Re: Making T-Shirts
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2014, 06:48:08 am »
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2014, 06:53:54 am »
If you want to make fake name brand clothing its best and cheaper to just buy fake clothing from overseas. It will save you a lot of money.
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2014, 08:46:22 am »
Depends on the quality you want to do. First and foremost is sourcing the blanks. Gildan is big. Keep in mind that the brand name will be on the tag, you'll want to do something about that if you actually want to make fakes. As for printing, you can source it out to a print shop, or you can set up with a 4 color silk screen machine, they're a lot cheaper now than they were once, but you need space. Of course, you'll still need the blank screens, which are their own hassle. Sports team stuff will be easiest to unload, and carry the highest profit margin. If you can get ahold of some fake hologram stickers of authenticity (and fucked if I know where to get those), that really seals the deal.

Fact: people can tell iron on shit from a glance.

I actually sell tshirts for a living, so I'll tell you this, unless you have a sales plan, it a phenomenal pain in the ass to try to turn inventory into $. I've got about 12,000 shirts just in my floating inventory, and you've got to get them printed in batches of 72, minimum, to keep the printer price down. It's usually 72 per box, for each size, anyway. Hope you have storage space.

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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 12:18:35 am »
If you want to make fake name brand clothing its best and cheaper to just buy fake clothing from overseas. It will save you a lot of money.

I tried it once with Football/Soccer clubs and it all got impounded.
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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2014, 12:30:56 am »
Depends on the quality you want to do. First and foremost is sourcing the blanks. Gildan is big. Keep in mind that the brand name will be on the tag, you'll want to do something about that if you actually want to make fakes. As for printing, you can source it out to a print shop, or you can set up with a 4 color silk screen machine, they're a lot cheaper now than they were once, but you need space. Of course, you'll still need the blank screens, which are their own hassle. Sports team stuff will be easiest to unload, and carry the highest profit margin. If you can get ahold of some fake hologram stickers of authenticity (and fucked if I know where to get those), that really seals the deal.

Fact: people can tell iron on shit from a glance.

I actually sell tshirts for a living, so I'll tell you this, unless you have a sales plan, it a phenomenal pain in the ass to try to turn inventory into $. I've got about 12,000 shirts just in my floating inventory, and you've got to get them printed in batches of 72, minimum, to keep the printer price down. It's usually 72 per box, for each size, anyway. Hope you have storage space.

No shit, I'm thinking of buying a cheap house in Detroit just to keep my storage costs down.

Im not fussed about tags etc as I will do my own designs but with the club badges used (for example one soccer club fan pissing on the other soccer club badge)

I thought about sourcing it out to companies here but I am scared they will go to the cops with trademark infrinegment etc
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« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2014, 03:08:19 am »
I tried it once with Football/Soccer clubs and it all got impounded.
Do tell.

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« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2014, 03:43:18 am »
I tried it once with Football/Soccer clubs and it all got impounded.
Do tell.

It was actually 270 flat pieces of metal with Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United they seized them and then I got three convictions for Trademark Infringement.

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« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2014, 03:52:32 am »
You can get a screen printing machine now for under $2,000. It was five times as expensive a decade ago. The only reason I don't have one is that I don't have space for one currently. You could screen print by hand a lot cheaper than that, but it comes down to how many shirts you want to make. If it's a lot, invest in a machine.
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« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2014, 03:54:02 am »
Also, I should note, single color is significantly, significantly, easier than multiple colors. It takes all sorts of shenanigans to get the screens to line up properly for multi-hue printings.
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« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2014, 03:59:08 am »
You can get a screen printing machine now for under $2,000. It was five times as expensive a decade ago. The only reason I don't have one is that I don't have space for one currently. You could screen print by hand a lot cheaper than that, but it comes down to how many shirts you want to make. If it's a lot, invest in a machine.

There is a company that does it for like £3/$5 a shirt who would help so I may have to do that first
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« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2014, 04:05:19 am »
Wow, I only pay that much for special jobs, like textured paint or all over front+back+sleeves. Usually it's like $2 per shirt, but then, large batches like I said before.
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« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2014, 04:16:47 am »
Wow, I only pay that much for special jobs, like textured paint or all over front+back+sleeves. Usually it's like $2 per shirt, but then, large batches like I said before.

Everything is more expensive in this country
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