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    I want a single custom printed t shirt, where do I go?

    I want this comic on a t shirt.



    I know there are places that will print you up some shirts, but I don't want to get a bunch, just one or maybe two.

    Anyone custom print single shirts, hopefully for not much money?
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    Kinkos can do it. Call before you go over so you can work out the details of file type, resolution, and t-shirt
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    The easiest and least expensive way to do one-off tee is using heat transfer. You can buy the paper, use a copier to put the image on and transfer with a heat press or iron.

    Get the best paper you can find it hides the non image tranfer better. Should be able to find the paper at any computer accessory place.
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    Look for a company that has "direct to garment printing" its an ink jet printer that prints on t-shirts. I will cost you a lot but printing 2 shirts with the traditional screen printing will cost about the same. Short of that you can get a shirt at the store and a sharpie or two and make it your self.

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    Cafepress.com does single shirts (and other crap, too)

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    any t-shirt store in any large mall in any town in north america?

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    Try uberprints.com, I thinks its like $12 a shirt if you do digital print instead of screen print.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cl1953 View Post
    The easiest and least expensive way to do one-off tee is using heat transfer. You can buy the paper, use a copier to put the image on and transfer with a heat press or iron.

    Get the best paper you can find it hides the non image tranfer better. Should be able to find the paper at any computer accessory place.
    Second this. I've had good luck with iron-on printing paper.

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    DTG= What is white in the picture will not print. It will be the color of the shirt
    Iron on= OK if you don't mind the look/feeling of a piece of white vinyl glued to your shirt.
    Kinkos= digital transfer on white polyester only

    I'm in the biz but don't do onesies


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    cafe press. easiest way to go.

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    That would be a sweet shirt

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    If you do not want to do the heat transfer, then a few other suggestions are the digital method- to computer then with the special dye transfer printers out there.

    Is it an original that you want to reproduce exactly as shown (say as an example something your kid drew up for you)? Another option would be to give it to a good air brush artist that have the means to do a similar drawing with their paint guns. It would be slightly different though- not an exact copy like the digital print or heat transfer methods so maybe the not the look you want.

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    The picture is a comic from XKCD.com.

    The biggest hurdle now seems to be that since I can't get a high res copy of the image, all the custom sites like cafe press that people mentioned will only let me enlarge the pic to about four inches across, which looks pretty lame.

    Oh well, I can figure that one out somehow, thanks guys, got all I need.

    It's going to be awesome.
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