ATK T-Shirts

[Chalex4]

Today I contacted a local company and got some information concerning the prices of the official ATK Community T-Shirts.

Because a print has to be created of the jpg there is a one-off charge that is far higher than the price of printing the T-Shirts. This figure is around £60 including VAT so until we have paid this amount off, this figure will be part of the cost of the t-shirt. Once I have got the amount back, the price will drop considerably. I am incorporating this cost into the shirts with the idea that they will be paid off after the first 10 sales.

So, the cost of the shirts will be about £14.00 including VAT, excluding any postage and packaging costs.

The T-Shirt will be black with the logo/name on the front and the sponsor on the back. The only trims available are red stripes going down the arms which is £5 extra or white round the neck and arms which the same price. We will not have the expensive trim and I am thinking about the white one.

So, the cost of the first shirts will go down in cost if more people buy it as soon as they are created. Please post below if you can pay £14.00 or less for the shirt. If I get over 10 people able to pay for the shirts then the price will decrease. If I get less than 10, the price will increase. To give you an idea, the cost of the shirts after we have paid off the £60 will be around £8.50 including VAT, excluding postage and packaging.

Since I live near them, I can collect the shirts. If some people want to avoid the P&P cost, I can give them the shirt at i31.

I know many of you wanted custom names on your shirt. That would require a new copy of the jpg, so an extra £60 per shirt.

PLEASE POST BELOW IF YOU CAN PAY THE £14.00 OR LESS AND I WILL ADD YOU TO THE LIST. DO NOT SAY YES BEFORE YOU ARE 100% SURE YOU CAN PAY IT!!

Can Pay £14.00 max:

1. Chalex4
2. Chazlene
3. Cillit Bang
4. Fatal - 25th July
5. Colonel Mitchel
6. Target

(3 more people needed!)

**T-SHIRT DESIGN - FINAL VERSION**

[Hutch]

Sounds cool, I probably won't need one. Can we buy them when we need them after the £60 has been paid off?

[Chazlene]

I'm confused, is it £60 to make a certain number of shirts or just to have the picture used?
I can probably pay, but do I get a reduction because I found the company that's making the shirts and because I actually made the design for them?

[Chalex4]

Listen, they need the £60 to make the copy of the jpg otherwise we will not have any T-Shirts at all, therefore I cannot offer any discounts (and you deserve one Chazlene). Once the £60 is paid we never have to pay it again (unless we change the design), it is a one-off charge.

@Hutch: I worked out that 10 people should be able to pay, one of those people was you. It would certainly help if you could buy them at the £14.00 price. If no-one buys them then they will always be £14.

The T-Shirts will be a fun thing to have - £14.00 is not that expensive. Also, please be clear when you are saying yes to paying the £14.00, I don't want to make a mistake.

[FaTaL]

i can buy one, but i neeed 2 wait 3 weeks after my holiday.

[Chalex4]

I have talked to loads of other companies but not one of them can beat the £14 (including setup)and none of them were less than £10 for just the T-Shirt. I rang back the company I spoke to yesterday and they said that they could use heat transfers instead of using plates but there is only one type of each colour and complicated designs wouldn't work well. The shirt would be the same price (£8.50) but it would be £14.50 to create the image instead of £60.

The method that they quoted us for the £60 was an extremely high quality method and would not wear out easily. I took a look on their website and the t-shirts they produced look incredible, really good quality and vibrant colours. In the long term, I think this is worth it, even if it is a bore at the moment to pay the £14.50/£60. You definitely wouldn't regret ordering a t-shirt, which I am sure you would if I made it.

I also checked out doing it ourselves. However, it would be a difficult to get white and from what the people on the internet think, it is not worth it because they wear out very quickly, especially if only using an iron and not a proper press.

@ Chazlene: the jpgs used for t-shirts need to be at least 300 ppi and the same size (if not more) as we want it printed, any less and there will be pixilation. So if we want it to be 10 inches across it needs to be 10 inches in photoshop. Remember, we need to also cater for the larger sizes. The reason I say this is that you may need to re-create the t-shirt because on all the websites I have been on, they say that it is too small to create the size of image I want. When you have done this, I am going to send the image to the company to see if our design would work by heat transfer (the cheaper option). Please make sure that you only have a small black border around the image.

** I am not sure of the exact size we want the logos to take up. I recommend that you make it as big as you can, about 12 inches - no larger. Then, if it much easier to make smaller and resize. I know this is a real bore, but it is better having good quality prints rather than pixilated ones!

[Chazlene]

I've made the design bigger using the larger, full version of the logo, and I also drew a T-shirt in photoshop to see what the design would look like on it, and it looks a lot better with the skull in the middle rather than on the right.

[FaTaL]

ill need a xl probs, im 6 ft 4-5 tall, and well i got love handles.
lol.

[spawnofebil]

FATAL IS FAT LAWL

On an unrelated note, I'm also 6' 3-4". COINCIDENCE?

[FaTaL]

nope.
i have big bones =D

[VoX]

Yeah sure thats what they all say .

[Isphera]

FATAL IS FAT LAWL

On an unrelated note, I'm also 6' 3-4". COINCIDENCE?

You are not 6'3

[spawnofebil]

Yes I am Oricalcos. I would know more than you :/

[Chalex4]

Please see the T-Shirt Design mock-up on my updated first post. I really need to know who can pay £14 or less for the T-Shirt because otherwise we will never have the money to get this produced.

[Snerfs]

on the topic of height, i am 15 years old and im 6' 5'' exactly, BEAT THAT :P:P