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From: Bob White <bob@bob-white.com>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: T shirts...  idea?
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Hi George,

We've got K-Marts too.  They are now the same thing as Sears.  According
to Wikipedia, your K-Marts are independent but licensed from the Sears
holding corp.

It looks to me like the dye sublimation printing is fairly wide
spread.  If we came up with a good image (or two), everyone could get a
t-shirt made locally at a reasonable price.  Then no hassles with
shipping, sizes, etc.  I don't know how the dye sublimation printed
shirts hold up as compared to the screen printed though.  As far as I
know, I've never had a dye sub printed shirt.  Back when I still had a
job, we had a paper printer that used that technology.  It did a good
job on images as the different colors of ink would blend together.  It
effectively made the image look like it was higher resolution.

Bob W.

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:52:50 +1000
"George Lendich" <lendich@aanet.com.au> wrote:

> 
> Bob,
> No Walmart - but we do have K-Mart, I think someone must have copied the 
> idea from you chaps.
> If it were me Bob I would go for the 24 quantity and flog-off the rest for 
> $20. You would sell them quick enough if it were a good design and quality 
> T-shirt..
> George (down under)
> 
> > Check out this site.
> > http://www.robsp.com/Home_Page.html and click on T-Shirts.  It looks
> > like they can digital print a t-shirt for $13.20 in quantities of 6,
> > $7.85 for quantities of 24, or $5.85 for quantities of 48.  A little
> > higher for George's black t-shirt.
> >
> > Screen printing also available but you have to buy screens at $20 X
> > the number of colors used plus maybe some more for "art services".
> >
> > The cost of blank t-shirts is so low, I though I would check Wallmart
> > to see what I've been paying for regular t-shirts.  I never found
> > regular t-shirts, but they do have t-shirts with a picture printed on
> > them, $10.96 each, or $16.22 for deluxe supple soft t-shirts.  I sort
> > of have the impression that these are white t-shirts only.
> >
> > Do you have a Walmart in Australia George?  It seems like this t-shirt
> > printing business is pretty wide spread, so there is probably someone
> > down under that does it.
> >
> > Bob W.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:56:06 -0700 (PDT)
> > Ben Schneider <plumberben@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> Problem with shirts is by the time you spend a 100 to 150 bucks to set up 
> >> the silk screen for the shirts. They end up costing you $15 to $20 a 
> >> piece. Then you got some shipping on them, poor George would likely have 
> >> $35 - $40 US in it by the time it got down under.
> >>   I can look into cost on printing, but I believe they usually have a set 
> >> up fee, and then a per piece price to print. Plus the cost of the shirt.
> >>   But that would definitely be the easiest way to identify each other at 
> >> airshows. At least until we are all one big happy family;)
> >>    I think we need to have big foam hats cut that are in the shape of a 
> >> rotor, kinda like the Green Bay Packer fans have a cheese wedge. That 
> >> would stand out.
> >>
> >>
> >>   Ben
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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