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est:
aha! cool,  That Ikea ad must have been US-only?  I hadn't seen it over here in Australia.  Many apologies!

grrraham:
Cut out stencils, buy cheap blank coloured shirts and print your own designs.
Then take those same stencils and spraypaint your hometown with them.

seibei:
if you want to get shirts screen printed, here's what you need to do.

take the artwork you want for the shirt, and get it into (preferably) Adobe Illustrator format, and the fewer colors you want to use, the less it's going to cost you. Each addition color is an additional screen that's going to add further set up charges and printing charges, so I'd recommend making a design that is going to look good with just one or two colors (don't forget to incorporate the color of the shirt into your design; you can really make one or two colors go a long way to looking good if you do that well).

Keep in mind that each additional print location (front of shirt, back of shirt, sleeve, etc) is going to add more setup charges and printing costs to your overall costs. Also, colored shirts will run (slightly) more than white ones.

A good rule of thumb at the shop I work for (one of the larger shops in Virginia) is that you'll want to get at least a dozen shirts at a time, ideally at least one dozen per screen used. So, one color on the front + one on the back, try and get 24 at a time. Obviously the more you get, the less each shirt will cost you, as all the setup and such goes into the first shirt.

Hope this helps; feel free to PM me if you have any more questions. I don't know whether any of the screen printers online are any good; I would recommend just cracking the phonebook and start making some calls, or maybe asking around to see who people like.

SilentJ:

--- Quote from: est on 27 Nov 2006, 13:40 ---aha! cool,  That Ikea ad must have been US-only?  I hadn't seen it over here in Australia.  Many apologies!

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When Scott Ramsoomair did that comic, he actually said he was getting the idea from said Ikea commercial

Just sayin'

Choco:
Thanks a lot for all the great info, seibei. Much appreciated. I think Eggs&Deagles creators have found a place to get the shirts made and are now thinking up of a design.

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