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New Source, New T-shirts
« on: April 04, 2018, 10:50:02 pm »
Months ago, I began preparing for the 23rd Annual Run For The Hills.  I have prepared the route and have most of the itenerary planned.  Keeping in mind what has happened for the past 2 years, I also began seeking another source for our event Tshirts. 

I have always liked the ability to produce a shirt with a full color photograph.  It's easier and cost effective to take a photograph than to pay someone to do custom artwork.  The equipment for printing our shirts is an inkjet printer.  A wide format printer using special ink applied to a special transfer sheet.  That printed transfer sheet is then placed on a tshirt that's positioned in a heat press.  The ink turns to a gas under heat and penetrates the fabric.

This process makes the image permanent and also gives it what's known as a 'soft hand'.  Meaning that with your eyes closed, you wouldn't know if you were touching the image or the bare white fabric.  The past 2 years I had to use an alternate printer who used a different process.  The feel was that of the old rubber iron-on transfers of the era when printed tshirts first became the big fad.  Stiff, sweaty, and after a few laundry cycles, the image began to crack and peel off the shirt.

When I first started doing the event shirts, my printer had a high end Hanes shirt that was 100% cotton inside with a polyester outer.  Through the years and successive printers, the Hanes shirts were no longer available and a 50/50 cotton/poly blend shirt was all that was available.  The polyester was necessary because the ink was formulated to bond to polyester.  Many didn't like the blend because it doesn't have the wicking ability of 100% cotton, and sometimes will irritate sensitive skin.

Today, I secured a source of 100% cotton shirts.  Printed by inkjet and it has that coveted 'soft hand'.  New technology has become available that makes these all-cotton shirts as durable as the cotton/poly blend.  Images are printed directly onto the shirt, which reduces production cost due to no special transfer sheet is required, and it eliminates that heat transfer step.  This allowed the printer to give our club special pricing that is equal to our cost at the other printer. 

I will have a Georgia Fiero Club MEMBER shirt available at the April meeting, along with a Warwoman and Rattler shirt printed on the blend shirt.  I hope we can entice our members to purchase MEMBER shirts to promote and support our club. 

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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2018, 10:59:21 pm »
What are the features of a MEMBER shirt?

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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2018, 11:03:03 pm »
Put me down for a couple of member shirts, sight unseen. I know it will be good.
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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2018, 07:15:50 am »

As a frugal Fiero fan, I am interested.
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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2018, 08:19:18 am »
The sample shirt I made has this on the back


And this in the left chest pocket area.
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« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2018, 09:07:31 am »

Nice.  Sign me up for one. 

Wouldn't mind an actual Fiero on there somewhere, but none of the other clubs seem to have one either.  Maybe it's a copyright thing?

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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2018, 10:44:02 am »
I Want Mine In Large
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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2018, 11:24:37 am »
Maybe we can discuss this at the meeting and set a price.  I'd like to have it set up to purchase through club merchandise and place the month's orders collectively at the end of the month.  Then they can be distributed at the next meeting or mailed out.  I don't want to be running to the printer multiple times a month to get the shirts. 
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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2018, 05:26:32 pm »
Perhaps have www.gafiero.org on there somewhere?
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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2018, 07:03:47 pm »


That peach being off-center triggers my OCD.

Will all the shirts be white?

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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2018, 09:47:31 pm »
The peach had to be off-center because of the leaf. 

The thing about this process is that they can print white, so printing on colored shirts is an option, but possibly at a higher cost because of the addition of the color white.  On colored shirts, the complete image has to be underlaid with white, thus you have 200% ink coverage. 
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« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2018, 10:30:23 pm »
I'd have let the leaf go up against the side of the circle.

Yeah, I guess printing white on color would be difficult.
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« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2018, 10:45:59 pm »
It's not a problem.  When printed on a white background, the colors used are blue, red, yellow and black.  The density of the colors on white is what gives the different shades of a color and the black gives the highlights.  You have to create that white background by printing the complete image in white, then reprinting it in the 4 colors.  Ashe color shirts are usually the least problematic in other tshirt printing methods, but any color always had to have that 5th color white underneath to keep the color of the shirt from showing through the image.  If you have a sheet of yellow legal paper, print a picture on it and compare to one printed on white paper.  You'll see what I mean. 

They had various color shirts on display and the colors printed on them were very strong. 
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« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2018, 06:56:14 am »

My wife says she's interested in a shirt too.

Starts with a shirt.  Can a 3800SC be far behind?  ;)


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Re: New Source, New T-shirts
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2018, 08:17:24 am »

Starts with a shirt.  Can a 3800SC be far behind?  ;)

Only if you are driving it.  I hear hers is rumored to get an LS3.😃
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There are three kinds of men:

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