How much do you spend per t-shirt?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by teampronto

Looks nice!

We found a good place to go with, but our problem is turnaround time (2 weeks). Is that normal?

In my experience, two weeks is normal or even speedy. If it's customInk you're talking about (they guarantee a two week turn around), I've dealt with them before, and have nothing but good things to say. They're very helpful, and very good at what they do. They took a very complicated hand drawing and made an excellent t-shirt.

[EDIT] I'll second to look for local places though. They may be willing to do your shirts for just materials if you ask really nice, or for a smaller surcharge than online dealers[/EDIT]

[teampronto]

The place I mentioned IS local. They won't give discounts because their primary source of income is from schools and their clubs.
$11.35 is the price per shirt S-XL.

[Andy L]

Two weeks turnaround for a local place seems a bit long to my knowledge. I'd say try online in that case. Maybe try the place iCurtis mentioned

[typharn91]

on spam we have 2 diff shirts one we get for free and the other the students can buy(the ones we buy are designed by use diff desgn every year) and we can buy any amount we want and they usually cost 8-10

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by teampronto

The place I mentioned IS local. They won't give discounts because their primary source of income is from schools and their clubs.
$11.35 is the price per shirt S-XL.

Looking back at the original post, I'd say you're getting a pretty darn good price. 3 colors on the front and 1 on the back makes for a lot of printing, and certainly drives your cost up. In order for customInk to beat that price you'll need to order at least 60 shirts! If cost is such a factor, I'd cut out a color or two, and consider changing to a non-black shirt.

[wendymom]

I work for a t-shirt company (when I'm not working for a robotics team). A two week turnaround is normal. Sometimes it can go faster if you don't have to have the shirts shipped in. It does cost more to print on a dark color as opposed to a light. Grey (on black) can be achieved by using less white so you may only be charged for one color. There is a screen fee cost per color used. Usually that runs 25.00 per screen so you must add that set up fee to the cost of the shirts. There may also be an additonal artwork charge depending on the company you are working with. The cost will also go down when the quanity of shirts goes up. Generally we have a minimum of 24 whenever we screen print.

For a basic black t-shirt with one color on two sides of the shirt with a minimum of 24 would run you about 12.50at my company without any discounts. I think you are getting a good deal.

[spc295]

we have two different shirts made, one for thursday and saturday, and one for friday. that way we dont have to worry about washing shirts friday night, only thursday. our team colors are red and black so naturally one shirt is red and the other black. we do not pay for our shirts because they are donated. also the people in the pits around us are always confused friday morning, when we change from red to black.

[purduephotog]

Originally Posted by teampronto

Hi all. I'm just curious to hear what the average price of t-shirts you guys get is. Our team is currently debating over which t-shirt company to go with and we want to know how much to pay for shirts. Thanks in advance

Evening-

Marketing costs were closely tracked for our team last year. I looked at several vendors- here is what I can provide you. (as it turns out I seem to have lost all my quotes but these)

100x shirts, mixed sizes, 1 color printing: 460$ (local vendor)

100x shirts, mixed sizes, 6 color printing $1344.20 (won't do that again)

I may be off on the last one- but doing multiple colors like that is very expensive.

This year we're looking at Polos with 50% of the cost defrayed by the team- by queensboro - and they've been sending out lots of coupons for discounts.

Hope it helps.