T Shirts and Banner

[KelliV]

If you talk to your local FedEx Kinkos and let them place their logo on your banner too they will probably give you a discount. Also, if you explain that you are a school and have all your tax exempt forms they might give you a discount. Make sure you bring an adult along or they will dissmiss you as a student wanting a banner for your own use.
I know the FedEx Kinkos does it in some states (It did ours in the city of Chicago)

As for t-shirts I liek to use custom ink... www.customink.com ... because they will provide you with a quote on their site and are very efficient.

[Justin M.]

Cafe Press is a good, cheap, fast, and easy source for t-shirts. They can also make buttons, stickers, coffee mugs, clocks, anything you want really, besides like BIG banners and stuff.

We use a local uniform place that makes sports jerseys, and we had them make us soccer jerseys. I think the best solution to getting a place for t-shirts or banners is to break out the phonebook and start calling a bunch of places.

[rfolea]

FYI:

Team 1746 will be doing a "How to Print your own T-Shirts" session at Nationals this year.

It's cheap, easy and fun. This will be a live demo where you can print your own shirt right there!

We can print shirts for a couple bucks each.

We printed several hundred shirts for the local FLL teams this year - see attached picture ...

[Matt Gardner]

Originally Posted by rfolea

FYI:

Team 1746 will be doing a "How to Print your own T-Shirts" session at Nationals this year.

That sounds awesome! Our problem is we're only needing about 15 shirts, and this would bethe year where we have to pay the set up fees for silkscreening :-S. If we somehow make it to the nationals (I'd like to go even if we do not win a competition, but cost is an issue) we'll be sure to check out your session.

[wendymom]

Originally Posted by Matt Gardner

That sounds awesome! Our problem is we're only needing about 15 shirts, and this would bethe year where we have to pay the set up fees for silkscreening :-S. If we somehow make it to the nationals (I'd like to go even if we do not win a competition, but cost is an issue) we'll be sure to check out your session.

Even though you only need 15 sometimes its cheaper the more you order. You might consider getting each kid 2 or 3 shirts. They can get dirty during the first two days and that way you have a clean shirt for Sat. Also that gives everyone and extra shirt or two to trade. Check around and see who the other clubs in your school use. My company gives free artwork and most set up fees to any orange county school, there might be a company like that where you are.

[Liz Smith]

I understand how you guys are against iron-ons. I see how a white t-shirt with a 8.5x11 rectangle graphic across the chest isn't that professional looking. But, with a little time put into it, the graphics can actually look pretty nice looking. Especially with only 15 shirts to do, I wouldn't turn my nose up at it so fast. 2005, I made shirts for the team, I used iron-ons printed out from my computer, and I think they turned out pretty well. I attached a picture to show you. Some benefit of it is that you can have as many colors as you want, without having to pay extra. I wouldn't suggest it for a large number of shirts, but for 15 its definitely something to think about.