Spring Coupon

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1. 1 by S Francis | Apr 12th, 2006 at 5:33 am
   

   I’m a big fan of spreadshirt, I have a number of stores with you, I make next to nothing from it, but it’s just nice to be “out there”..

   However, theres a pet peeve I have with spreadshirt.. and I was hoping that someone, somewhere, could give me an answer..

   I started a shop, putting images onto black t-shirts from a selection of artists. I could probably put them on ash grey ones, or pink ones, but I wanted to put them on black, and people liked them. I managed to draw in some customers, get a little feedback etc, it was all going great.

   Then, I got a new artist signed up with me, and I spent hours resizing and uploading his artwork, to find that spreadshirt had suddenly stopped allowing me to display NEW black t-shirts with printed pictures on. (I’m not talking about vector images, I’m talking about proper “art” pictures).

   I sent in a question about it at the time, and was told it was due to “disputes” with one of the companies you used, but that it would be rectified shortly… fair enough.

   This was last year. I still can’t display new stock on black t-shirts, yet my old stock is ok, and is certainly purchasable because I bought one myself to test it out.

   Can I get some kind of official answer as to whats happening, are we going to regain the ability to print images on black t-shirts, or are we relegated to other colours, are we going to lose the “stock” we already have, and how come we can print them on grey t-shirts but not black?

2. 2 by Sarah | Apr 13th, 2006 at 8:29 am
   

   Well, there’s good news and bad news:
   The good - here’s an answer
   The bad - what we have removed is the printing technique “digital transfer” for black/dark fabrics. This was what we were using for printing pixel images. the only problem was the printing technique was awkward: we printed the images on a thin piece of white plastic, that was then pressed on the shirts. but that meant that a lot of shirts had a heavy plastic patch in the middle. The quality was shoddy, so we started looking for new printing solutions. And, um, yeah…seems like we still are. Digital printing still works on lighter fabrics, for the time being. But yeah, the options for printing on black are vector images or screen printing…

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