August 9th, 2008 Tommy

We got an email from a client yesterday. They’re a three piece math rock band from Cleveland and they were starting a 10 city tour from the midwest to the northwest. It was their first major tour, and when they arrived at the first gig, it was clear the rest of the bands booked had a lot more presence and materials than them. They had nothing to dress the stage, no one would know who they were.

They started looking for vinyl banners, but they didn’t expect the multi-hundred dollar price tags they got for professionally produced vinyl banners. They got ahold of us to see if we could help. We set them up with three full color sublimated banners that looked seriously killer. They ordered online and we had the stage banners drop shipped to their next venue, for them to pickup when they arrived. They hung one from each side of the tour PA stacks and hung one up behind their merch booth. It instantly transformed the vibe of their band, they immediately got recognition (12 bands were touring together), people perked up at took notice when they took the stage and they became associated as “One of the headlining acts” of the tour.

People immediately started paying more attention to their merch booth too, which spiked up their tshirt and cd sales, which put more money in the band’s pocket from each gig.

By the end of the letter, the three guys who started out as the unknown underdogs came out on top as one of the centerpieces of the tour, with a new swarm of great fans and bellies full of real food, not gas station sandwiches.

With the myspace discount, the band paid less for all three of our stage banners than for ONE vinyl stage banner, and that wasn’t even FULL COLOR, plus ours are a cloth composite which stores and holds up way better than vinyl, which can crack and wrinkle.

Check them out! You won’t be disappointed.

Tags: band merch, band merchandise, band promotion, custom banner, custom stage banner, dye sublimation, full color printing, full color stage banner, full color tshirts, sublimated banners, vinyl banner
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August 6th, 2008 Tommy

We’re so excited about full color tshirts over here at shirtsforbands.com that we can’t hold it in. We’ve been in the t-shirt industry for years, and it’s always irked us that printing shirts had to be so complex. With all the different t shirt options and ink choice and multiple color problems, we only wanted one thing for our customers, TOTAL CREATIVE FREEDOM to put ANYTHING THEY WANTED ON A TSHIRT with no complex mathematical equations needed to get them a good price.

The team behind ShirtsForBands.com has always been on the cutting edge of digital imaging technologies as they’ve developed over the past decade, but until now there’s never been a reliable, high quality way to reproduce photographic artwork on fabric. That’s all different now, we’ve changed the rules.

Our inks are the ultimate in quality for textile printing, they POP and LAST. We can get brighter yellows, blues and reds than any of our competitors AND we’ll do it for less than they want.

Compare our prices to big name players like cafepress.com and then compare the quality of our TRUE TEXTILE INKS to their low-quality heat transfers (think that wicked Back To The Future tee you had in the 80s) and we blow them out of the water.

Did we mention all our inks and processes are totally eco-friendly? Our production house even RUNS ON WIND POWER and is carbon neutral. Definitely not business as usual.

We’re a small DIY company… a group of friends and fellow musicians, but we’ll put our name up against any of the big brothers out there in the online t shirt world.

Give us a try for your next t-shirt merch order, you won’t be disappointed.

Tags: custom printed t-shirts, custom screen printing, custom tees, design tshirts online, digital printed tshirts, full color tshirts, t shirts
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August 6th, 2008 Tommy

Hey Everyone!

We’ve gotten a couple letters asking us to explain our new pricing now that we’ve GONE FULL COLOR and we’re more than happy to do that. It’s actually much easier now. Since we removed all the scales and breakpoints that were necessary with multi-color screen printing, now we just have two different pricing schedules, one for light garments, one for dark garments.

Light Tshirts:

Dark Tshirts:

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August 6th, 2008 Tommy

Full color tshirts are here! Thanks to bleeding edge tshirt printing technology, we can now offer full color custom tshirts with minimums as low as ONE TSHIRT!

Our shirts aren’t low quality heat transfers like some of the higher priced big players like cafepress.com. Our full color printing is done with the highest quality eco-friendly digital printing plastisol inks. Conventional screen printing using the same ink, but our prints are applied by inkjet technology, instead of the regular old squeegee and screen, drastically reducing the amount of ink required.

This keeps your print “light handed” (which means you can’t feel a heavy layer of ink all over the shirt with your hand). Every shirt off our line comes off exactly the same as the first, colors perfect, and they stay that way for years.

Give full color tshirts a try for your next custom tshirt project!

Tags: custom printed t-shirts, custom shirts, custom tees, design tshirts online, digital printed tshirts, dtg tshirts, full color tshirts, online designer, screen printed tshirts
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June 19th, 2008 Tommy

We’re committed to finding sustainable options to use in our operations whenever possible, which is why shirtsforbands.com is the first player in the screen printing industry to offer the OR420 100% Organic Cotton Tee from Anvil as our primary garment option, replacing the lower quality, non-organic Gildan Ultra Cotton.

We personally love these tees, and they line our own closets.

Specs:
5 oz., preshrunk certified 100% organic cotton tee. shoulder-to-shoulder tape. seamless collarette. double-needle stitching on sleeves and bottom hem. (white and natural are sewn with cotton thread).

Tags: blank tee, garment decoration, organic cotton, organic tee, organic tshirts, screen printing
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