[Pdx-pm] 2006 shirt -- call for designs

[Joshua McAdams]

I was referenced to Kellie Carter <kcarter at mdscreen.com> by the folks
at VA Software.  They seem to have pretty good prices (<$5/shirt) for
XL and smaller.

On 5/19/06, Joshua Keroes <jkeroes at eli.net> wrote:
>
> http://bluepdx.com is pretty good.
>
> I printed 500 shirts a few months ago at a different press. Colored
> shirts (Gildan 1000 for unisex; Bella for girls) with three ink tones
> came to $6/shirt, as best I recall. Next time, I'll probably try and
> find something to replace the Gildan 1000s; they aren't the best
> shirts... they're just decent. See if you can get a heavier cotton
> weight, they'll drape better/crinkle less.
>
> Other thoughts: if you make the shirts generic enough - more about
> Portland and Perl than about the Portland Perl Mongers, I wouldn't be
> surprised if we could sell a 100-150 (25 to current members, 75+ to
> the attendees) charging, at say $15/shirt.
>
> -J
>
> On May 19, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>
> > # from Joshua Keroes
> > # on Thursday 18 May 2006 10:32 pm:
> >
> >
> >> Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> >>
> >>> Guidelines:  Designs should be two colors...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Do you mean one ink color on the shirt color or two ink colors on the
> >>   shirt color?
> >>
> >
> > Last year's shirts were white, red, and green on black (sorry, I
> > forgot
> > about the green.)  Perhaps Josh has some memory on how much that (and
> > maybe the front/back thing) affected the cost vs. one or two printed
> > colors?
> >
> > Sorry, my cheatsheet (http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?ShirtNotes)
> > doesn't have anything about where is good for shirts.
> >
> > --Eric
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