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.
Wow. That’s a great price. Could you post his contact info/website?
Right now this is a fact finding expedition to see if there is enough interest. If this works out I will post the info.
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. :ahh:
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.
Awesome price! That would definitely be a nice benefit for teams.
I’m surprised that with over 350 views only 20 people have responded to the poll.
No one wants to save money?
The people on our team who manage the finances aren’t on the Chief Delphi forums.
I’d like to know how much it would cost to produce my color logo on some shirts.
I would buy around 10 max.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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I know that there are many teams that look for cost effective custom T-shirts, shorts, reversibles, and jerseys.
I work for Lacrossewear Inc. which is a sports apparal company. I work there as a graphic designer. Lacrossewear Inc. is known for their custom apparal and being able to create whatever the customer wants. Even though the company’s main focus is lacrosse, overtime we have expanded to other sports as well. Check out the website www.lacrossewear.com. If you want quotes or have any questions, feel free to pm me.
We get ours $10 to $12 after building a nice relationship with a tshirt company. We usually do 4 colors (3 front 1 back) for $10. What a steal.
We get a 3 color front and 1 color back for $8 a shirt.
OK, here is the information you have been waiting for.
The company is High Tech Tees and the website is http://cloud.dnsprotect.com/~htbctees/index.html
Right now their digital shirt printer is down but they are still doing Silk Screening.
There is No Design charge, NO Setup charge and a low minimum order size.
They use only the highest quality t-shirts. I can attest to that.
They have 15 color t-shirts available, but if you want to send in your special shirt colors, he will knock off a few dollars.
Right now he can do 1-2 colors front and back.
He can take JPEG, AVI, photoshop etc. files for setup.
If you are interested, and call them, mention FIRST Robotics so he knows you are with a robotics team.
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AVI? So they’ll put videos on tee shirts? If that true, I want a shirt that plays a video clip of a bazinga. :rolleyes: