We normally do not accept customer-supplied garments. However, recently a fellow church parishioner asked us to screen print on some shirts she found “on sale” at a local Michaels outlet. She wanted to offer an inexpensive gift to the members of a church group. The price she paid for the shirts was comparable to our wholesale pricing, so it was …
Choosing Wet Weather Jackets
Embroidered jackets serve a basic function of providing an outer layer of warmth and wind protection in addition to the visual dimension of showing off a logo. But some manufacturers make jackets designed to withstand harsher weather. If you need a jacket with a higher rating for water protection, look for the technical specifications of the outer shell. Here are …
Soft hand screen printing
Some people are turned off by screen printing because they don’t like how the inked design feels through the shirt itself. The nuisance is that it can feel like you’re wearing a shirt that has had bucket of paint spilled on it. This is typically more of a problem when you have a design that consumes a lot of space …
“Really Cheap Shirts”
We bid regularly for embroidery and screen printing jobs. We win about as many bids as we lose. That tells us that we are pricing our work competitively. We are comfortable with that position. The bids we know we don’t win are the ones where someone was looking for “really cheap shirts” to begin with. We operate on the same …
Would you like to talk to someone who does quality work?
A business partner of ours won for us the the opportunity to bid for a local firm’s logo wear by asking, “Would you like to talk to someone who does quality work?” It’s commonly accepted that a customer may reasonably expect any two of the following three options from a vendor: 1) quick 2) quality 3) inexpensive Customers often chase …
Is really cheap screen printing really a great deal?
It depends on two factors: 1) whether you care about the quality of the outcome, and 2) whether you expect you may want to reprint your shirts again at a future date. Yes, you can get really cheap screen printed shirts. You may, however, be disappointed to discover that you can see through the shirts. Yes, you can get really …
Why we insist on quality, and why you should too.
I had a client call me and request that we provide “cheap, cheap, cheap” shirts. I told him we could oblige with a $13 shirt. When I delivered the shirts, he noticed that the style was similar to the beat up shirt he was wearing. “Is that the same shirt as what I’m wearing now?” he asked. “Yes,” I replied. …