Don't know where to post this, can anyone help?

[asaab00]

Hi,
Me and my sister are thinking about starting a T-shirt company. I will handle marketing and web site, while she handles design. Basically, for the design part we are looking for some help. We have never done this before and was wondering what is the best way to transfer this to T-shirts? Does anyone have any experience with thisj, or can lead me to an appropriate forum or website that deals with this. What are the different methods and pros cons to each.

tHanks in advance,
confused noob

[PrintDriver]

Tell me if you can help me?

I'm going to be a carpenter. I don't know anything about the industry, nor have I ever actually worked with or for a real carpenter but it's something I just want to do. Can you tell me the type of fasteners to use to build a deck and the pros and cons of each?

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[Jason Fraker]

Just write down what you want the shirt to look like, scan the page you wrote it on, open it in Photoshop and click the Make Tshirt button...

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[asaab00]

I'm entering this forum in the hopes of learning more about graphic design, I'm sure there are MANY areas in life where you guys are clueless. No need to ridicule anyone's question.

[Keyare]

You can use silkscreen or Iron-on transfers to start.

Usually when you start a t-shirt company you outsource the printing to a silkscreen house until you get enough of a product flow to justify producing the product in-house.

Silkscreen is far more durable and flexible than computer-printed iron-on transfers. Iron ons can only go on white or light t-shirts.
Silkscreen can go on anything. THere are also silkscreen transfers that you can get. That's where the silkscreener screens in reverse on a transfer paper - which you can then heatpress on almost anything. The'yre more durable than iron-ons but less durable than silkscreen.

Iron - ons are cheapest and fastest if you are doing 1-10 shirts but the quality sucks. You CAN do 1 shirt in silkscreen but it's costly for all the setup so you should really do more than 1.

You can buy a printer and transfer paper for t-shirts for $150 or less... Silkscreen equipment about $1500+
A proper heat press about $2000

Yyou should really call and visit a local silkscreener.

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[PrintDriver]

Key is kind.
There are any number of books on the subject of printing T-shirts.
Check Amazon. Search 'printing t-shirts'.
Check the SGIA.org website too.

Be sure to find out from your shirt outsource exactly HOW they want the files set up. Silkscreen set up is different from digital and the more colors you silkscreen, the more it costs. You can also get digital Dye-sub transfers. A lot more permanent than the transfer paper you buy at OfficeMax but they still have to go on light or white shirts.

Sure there are a lot of things I don't know about. But my job? I make an effort to learn all I can about that. And I make an effort to learn more each day. Your question makes you sound.....ill-prepared...
<shrug> Your money.
Good luck.
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PrintDriver is a grande format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing