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Re: formula for hell on earth...

by mowgli (Friar)
on Feb 21, 2003 at 22:53 UTC ( [id://237600]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to formula for hell on earth...

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Goodness, now *that* would be a t-shirt I'd buy in an instant. Maybe this should be suggested to ThinkGeek - if enough people support it, I'm sure they'd do it. :)

So, how about it, fellow monks? Would there be demand for an actual shirt with this on it?

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mowgli

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Re: Re: formula for hell on earth...
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Feb 21, 2003 at 23:55 UTC
    You can get iron-on transfer "paper" for your printer. The stuff is opaque with a white base, so it should work just fine on a black shirt.

    For a project I did, I used individual pieces of the 8x10 stock with figures cut out and put all over the shirt, rather than just a single "page" in the center of the front and back. So, don't worry about the size of the stuff.

    What I really want is a whiteboard shirt that I can customize on the fly...

    —John

      What I really want is a whiteboard shirt that I can customize on the fly...
      But could you resist doodling yourself all day? :P

      --Solo

      --
      (THREEPIO SAYS) I'm rather embarrassed, General Solo, but it appears you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor.
      What I really want is a whiteboard shirt that I can customize on the fly...
      Well there is always David Clare's LED T-Shirt. With that you could have your favourite JAPH scrolling by for all to see :-}. I don't think its available yet, but he does have a backer now so its only a matter of time.

      _______________________________________________________
      Remember that amateurs built Noah's Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

      Iron-on transfers sound nice, but I'd need a printer for that, so that's not an option right now (unless I would shamelessly want to waste company resources by using one of our office printers ;)).

      A white-board shirt would be really cool, too, of course; however, I'm too lazy to build one and too impatient to wait for one. ;) Looking into various online printing services didn't yield much yet, either, unfortunately - there are lots that will happily print even a single t-shirt for you, but I haven't been able to find one yet that allows multiple lines of text *and* non-proportional font like Courier *and* doesn't limit line widths in a way that disallows things like chmod 0666, '/etc/passwd' or die;. Well, at least one I found says that almost everything they do is negotiable, so I'll send them an email inquiry about these things.

      Apart from that, I guess I will continue looking tomorrow (really need some sleep for now), and if I don't find one, I'll just bug ThinkGeek about it until they give in. *g*

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      mowgli

        unless I would shamelessly want to waste company resources by using one of our office printers

        Well, you'll be bringing in your own print stock, and you could bring your own ink cartridge too or make piece with the boss to let you use it for a donation to the office kitty or a copy for him or whatever.

        As for professional stuff, a number of years ago I designed a shirt that was silk-screened and sold to members of a group I was in. It's probably too much of a set-up charge to use that technology for a small run. Perhaps the places you were reading about are basically a more refined version of the do-at-home technology. You could certainly send the graphics ready made and not worry about their use of fonts. And I mentioned how I got around the width of the page issue; I just put multiple pieces on different places on the shirt.

        A final idea: there are cloth marker pens and paint. I had a couple shirts done that way a long time ago. Rather than the typical hand-drawn style art, you could use a stensil or tracing and do it that way.

        Or, you could even try a wax negative technique. Trace the text, then paint out the =background= with wax and dye the text. Then peel the wax off after softening it with a little heat.

        —John

Re^2: formula for hell on earth...
by LAI (Hermit) on Feb 21, 2003 at 23:14 UTC
      Speaking of the cafepress store, is there any chance for different variations on designs? For instance, I like the design on the hoody, but I don't like hoodies, and would rather have it on a tshirt. Is there any chance that this could happen?
        I've added the item you requested. If anyone has similar requests feel free to /msg me.

        If I'm not mistaken, vroom is in charge of the store. You prolly want to talk to him. I doubt, if you say "I would like to buy a t-shirt with $x design on it," that he would say "sorry, that only comes as a hoodie."

        Update: Well, what do you know, I was right. Yay vroom!

        LAI
        :eof

      As a matter of fact, no, I didn't know - thanks for the pointer. Apart from that, at the risk of asking another stupid question - does cafepress offer printing on black t-shirts? I don't really think this'd look good on a white one (not that I particularly like white shirts, anyway).

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      mowgli

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