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AggieDave

New DZ.com shirt?

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JUST SAY NO TO CAFEPRESS! There's a better option out there for t-shirts. http://www.zazzle.com. The quality is FAR FAR FAR better. I've bought shirts from both places and they don't even compare. Zazzle has a much smaller product line at the moment, but they claim that they'll start offering more products soon (been saying that for a long time though). Log in to their site using the beta username and password they provide. It works. You can design customizable shirts on there. That way, for example dropzone.com could design the basic shirt, and leave a spot on the chest for everyone to enter their own username. Cafe Press uses heat transfers (iron ons) to put the images on the shirts. Zazzle uses a much more advanced technique. I assume they have a machine that prints directly on the shirts or something. The image has the same feeling as the rest of the shirt (unlike iron ons or screen printing). They offer (for now) t-shirts, sweatshirts, and posters. (only white shirts are offered). They were very easy to deal with too. I think it took me about an hour from the time I found their site to the time I designed a shirt and placed an order. A single t-shirt cost me about $20 including shipping. A bit pricey, but about the same as cafe press. I've also washed the shirt a few times now and the image hasn't faded at all.

The only way for shirts to cost a reasonable amount is to have a large quantity of them screen printed, but for customization, zazzle is the way to go. I used it to make a prototype of the t-shirts my club was about to order from a screen printer. (http://www.umd.edu/studentorg/cpsc/tshirt.html is how the real ones look. The zazzle version had the colors reversed.)

Dave

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