Tee Shirts On Faa

whether it cheapens it or not, other people have it up so it doesn't matter if you have it or not. i wouldn't make something just for tee's. i haven't sold any here yet, but its rather new still. and i think they have color issues according to some.

as a side fact, we aren't allowed to talk about the other pod's.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

1 - yes - I sold 12 or so. Three this week.
2. no - because the ones I sold were specifically designed as ts and don't think anyone will be hanging them on a wall.
3. yes and no. Mostly have sold specific tee designs in PNG format but have sold a few non-tee intended designs.

I'm guessing that FAA is promoting t-shirt designs that are in the PNG format.

T-shirts appeal to the younger online crowd that doesn't own any wall space yet but they can hang things on their bodies. Future customers for the expensive wall art.

Thanks mike - fixed it

1. I sold one!
2. I figure if someone doesn't want one, it does not cheapen it that much. However, I want it to be there for a person who might!
3. No :( That is one area where I wish I was good at digital art/lettering.

Parker - you're in a good spot to create for your generation and to sell to your classmates.

I wanted to do shirts. I have many bird in flight shots with a plain sky background that I thought would look marvelous with the background removed and printed on t-shirts. I made a few pngs and ordered two as a test. The color reproduction was not good. The final answer regarding colors was this:

"The prints at the filfillment centre are fine. This is the common issue that will be hard to understand perhaps. This is not sublimation. There will never be an exact color match with DTG printing no matter where you go. A DTG printer mixes inks (CMYK) to create the various colors of the rainbow or, in this case, the colors in the design the machines were asked to print. Apparel is not a poster or a pillow or a mobile phone case. It’s ink on top of cotton, not ink dying poly material.

There is a newly released (soon) printer that is using new color profiles and inks that our fulfillment centre are currently testing for launch Oct 1. This will improve this particular print, however it will never match what’s exactly on the computer screen. If you are expecting to get a pixel perfect t shirt, it will never happen with print on demand. At least now and into the next foreseeable future."

Exact color reproduction may not be a concern for you, but it definitely was for me since the images I wanted to print were of actual birds. :-) Just something to be aware of.

You can read the entire thread here, if you're interested. http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2662086

My t-shirt only designs are mostly basic - black ink or white ink. Photos will never look great printed on a t-shirt in a one off fashion.

I have bought a couple now and they were perfect. Absolutely love them

I test drove a t-shirt and the printer had trouble creating a proper base white for gradients (they also place base white under black) . Fine Art America was willing to run another copy but had nothing in place that prevented them from printing the shirt in exactly the same way. I would love to send them a separations routine for underbase (yes, even a direct to garment printer will make one of sorts but I don't know what it would be called in that instance),

but

1. I don't know which program they use for printing
2. I don't know how to get in contact with the company directly (and don't ask figuring that information is proprietary) and wouldn't know to whom I could pass the information.

P.S. Your design will always print softer on fabric regardless of method, so many designers will sharpen their image before printing it on t-shirts. Another good question could be does the person prepping the print do the same in which case the image would best be left alone.

Sold another one. Simple white on black. Someone in Belgium loves them.

1 - Are you selling tees? -- I have sold several and none have been returned so that suggest to me the quality is just fine.

2 - Do you think it cheapens your fine art to print it as a tee? -- No more or less then selling open edition prints.

3 - Are you doing designs just for tees design, with type and sayings, ect.? -- No but I know if I did I would sell more T's but they are a low markup product so not going to spend my time there. I did not and will not be converting to PNG files either. Not enough money to spend the time, imho.

When given the choice of avoiding the problem and denying the problem, avoid it (Edward does it beautifully).

If the tiniest shift in color on dark t-shirts bothers you, don't use color. To most, it's too minute to be a problem.
If you are saving in a transparent png format, keep the edges sharp and crisp and avoid gradient shadows, glows, or fades.

Otherwise, printing is impeccable (except for my pet peeve of printing white under black…a nitpicky issue for direct to garment) . For most who are standing by the rectangle or square format, you probably won't have problems.

Ignoring the problem won't do much though. I'd be happy to make a Photoshop action if anyone at Fine Art America would be interested and willing to test it. Who knows…it could work ;)

a sold a couple sweatshirts of my typographical art with a transparent background.

I would love to see them here

Check out newbie Mike Webb

I made this simple/short video to get the word out about tee-shirts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKW-u_UqKpc

Posted it to my my Facebook page and LinkedIn profile. It got about 1200 hits via FB in the first few days. One time of putting it out there resulted in four sales...and several "oooh...that'll make a great holiday gift!" responses.

I also bought three for myself. They look/feel pretty good. The plan is to make their public debut when I wear them in my booth at the Rhode Island Comic Con next weekend. (Nov. 6 - 8, 2015) My new set of business cards lists my UncleJs-Monsters.artistwebsites.com address and a QR code on the back.

I have sold one t-shirt here and a half dozen "elsewhere." I also bought one for myself from both places The quality here was excellent and they were PNG images in an "oval" that looks good on the shirts.

I just wonder how the quality is. I've worked with tee-shirt printers in the past, and one thing I know is that for an image on a tee-shirt to really pop, a white under-image has to be printed first, and then the final image goes on top. Do FAA's printers do that?

I bought a t-shirt of one of my designs to test out the quality. The shirt that arrived was very good quality, but the print was extremely faded/muted and was not centered, actually off center by about an inch. I sent a description into FAA and they worked with me to send them photographs of the product I received, so they could show them to the production department. I then received another shirt at no charge, whose image was correctly positioned and much brighter, although it does not pop off of the blue shirt the way an underlayment of white would produce. Overall I would say the final quality of the print was good, not great, and the customer service was exceptionally great.

Thank everyone! You convinced my I am going to start posting Tee shirt designs

I sold 50 last night going to Las Vegas - unfortunately this morning they were all cancelled. Must have been a fraud.

WOW! that is crazy - LOL- if it is too good to be true?!? - I have sold a couple of originals from FAA contacts - "the checks bounced"- same thing, they want it right away. I always tell them sure when the check clears, they still try it. One guy even threatened to come to my house and beat the crap out of me.

Used to happen all the time when I sold t-shirts online. Randomly these crazy large orders would come in but would fail the authorization tests.

Had a nice four piece sale today to make up for it.