[an0n]

You could probably knock simple t-shirts out at an affordable retail price doing runs of maybe 50-100.

Mine, for example - on a 100 run with IndigoClothing - would use 3 colours (red, yellow, orange - I think) across 5 placements and 4 designs. So I'd probably need 12 screens (at £20 a screen) - meaning a £240 one-time setup. Add in £180 labour, £175 for cheap shirt, a few bucks for postage and tax and ****.....

So around £700 for 100 shirts. Meaning £7 piece? Damn. That's pretty cheap. I thought it'd be more than that. And the setup is a one-time thing. So repeat orders just use the old screens. And your designs would only need like 4 screens, meaning £80 setup. So they'd be more like £5 each.

This might actually be worth doing, y'know....

You could even get small stuff embroidered for not much. If you were aiming for a retail of say £10 per shirt, you could do some kickass stuff.

[an0n]

Actually, you can probably get them dirt-cheap if you conscript a HLP 3rd-worlder to check around in their locality. But I dunno if the quasi-slave industry types would be interested in such a short run.

[Galemp]

I'd rather not invest in that sort of thing if I can help it. It's bad enough involuntarily supporting them here at home.

As for IndigoClothing, the main thing is that we'd need some cash-up-front to pay for it. Maybe the admins could set up a PayPal account and anyone who donates $10 gets a shirt once the run is done. If it's less than that, I guess you could choose to donate it to the server/webhosting or getting it back.

[FireCrack]

Those ones an0n posted look snazzy...

[an0n]

I've submitted my 'traditional' one to Indigo for a rough quote (screen-printing only).


The way to do this would be to take orders (and cash) from forumites and place the order with Indigo (or whoever) once we hit 70% of the printing costs. Then use AdSense revenue to cover the other 30%.

That gives a balance between speed and loss-risk for the admins.

[an0n]

Oh and I'll be getting around £115 in like a week.

Assuming my uncle doesn't screw me, I can probably dump that into the fund, subject to a few provisos regarding how I'm reimbursed and on the condition that I get to gouge people to turn a profit.