Low cost t-shirts

[Wayne Doenges]

I have a friend, who is in the t-shirt business. He is very reasonable.
For our 10th annual motorcycle event, he made a multi-color t-shirt (Front and back) for $12.

[ZipTie3182]

Wow. That's a great price. Could you post his contact info/website?

[Wayne Doenges]

Right now this is a fact finding expedition to see if there is enough interest. If this works out I will post the info.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

I have a friend, who is in the t-shirt business. He is very reasonable.
For our 10th annual motorcycle event, he made a multi-color t-shirt (Front and back) for $12.

What kind of volume/screen count is this for? Ordering various club t shirts over the past few years its possible to get an order of around 50 t-shirts with 3 screens (2 colors front, one on the back) for $10 per shirt. If you can get like 6 screens though, that's a pretty crazy good deal.

[davidthefat]

Ours was $15 each, the people in charge of it bought cheap t shirts from sweatshops in Taiwan or somewhere in bulk and printed the design on them selves.

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Awesome price! That would definitely be a nice benefit for teams.

[Wayne Doenges]

I'm surprised that with over 350 views only 20 people have responded to the poll.
No one wants to save money?

[Alan Anderson]

The people on our team who manage the finances aren't on the Chief Delphi forums.

[Alex Cormier]

I'd like to know how much it would cost to produce my color logo on some shirts.

I would buy around 10 max.

www.TwoPencilDesigns.com

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

I'm surprised that with over 350 views only 20 people have responded to the poll.
No one wants to save money?

We don't do multi-colored shirts so the prices are basically the same for us. We have a blue shirt with white silkscreen that's only about $8 a shirt. I bought 8 last year

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

We don't do multi-colored shirts so the prices are basically the same for us. We have a blue shirt with white silkscreen that's only about $8 a shirt. I bought 8 last year

We do the same, but there isn't an option for that.

[JesseK]

We get 'stuck' with polo's for $30 each, but they're 'sport' polos that have lasted nicely since we got them (2008). However, in order to allow our FTC teams to differentiate their own imagery/branding, they've moved to their own custom t-shirts for competition days.

They too would want monochrome silk screens, though it'd be roughly 15-20 shirts per screen (for students, mentors, and parents). I imagine there are many VRC, FLL, and FTC teams in similar situations.

[Trying to Help]

Someone on CD last year mentioned screen printing their own t-shirts and I met some mentors from Team 88 whose members tie-dye an amazing amount of team gear and it really got me thinking. We also have a fair number of arts-minded students. So last year, the students created their own designs, burnt their screens and printed their own shirts. We had polo shirts for mentors and t-shirts for students and mentors. It was a pretty cool learning experience.

The team took on the cost of the ink, screens, etc. Members paid for the shirts and I think we charged them something on the order of $3 each for the t-shirts.

Trying to Help

[EricH]

Wayne, the reason for limited responses may also be that some school districts may have "preferred" (or, mandatory) suppliers for things like shirts.

I know, for example, that my college prefers that teams go through the campus bookstore for shirts. We have to at least give them the opportunity to decline, or beat competitors' pricing. Doesn't mean that we can't go elsewhere, just that the bookstore has to know about it.

[Brandon Holley]

When our team does order T-shirts we typically order somewhere in the 75 range. We get them off custom ink for around $10-11 bucks a pop. Custom ink is nice because you can see the entire t shirt on the screen and design it yourself using their software.

For things like the Beantown Blitz (our offseason event) we're ordering somewhere in the vicinity of 300 tshirts in 3 screens of color, so we get a pretty decent cost break, I think we pay around $9/shirt.

Just an idea of volumes and cost break downs we have experience with.

-Brando