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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Benjamin Medinets writes:
> > actually you know what would be cool is you have a picture of your favorite
> > theme on the front with the CN tower and a logo for rtlToronto....robotic
> > guys would have gears, train guys would have gears, Chris and Calum would have
> > "organizer" on their shirts....hmmmmm what do you think....what about the
> > shirts....has there been a lot of interest in rtlShirts?
> > I like my Lugnet shirt....so I'll have that for back-up....
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> Well, the problem with that is the insanely high cost of doing screen
> setups. Most of the production cost of the shirt (which I've been putting
> off for ages) is really the cost of getting films made of the camera ready
> art, then getting those films transferred to screens for printing. It's a
> sunk cost up front that only gets cheaper if you do more runs. It's about
> $40 per colour, so if you multiple the front (two colours, red and white)
> and the back (usually three, maybe less this outing) it gets REAL expensive.
> Then you need to factor in two preflashes of white ink for the darker
> shirts. That's why you need to do one shirt many many times to make it cheap.
>
> The shirt I did for U of T MIE Industrial, a grey ash shirt without
> preflash, we did 120 pieces of, and that reduced the cost to $4.51.
> (Literally everyone in the department has one now :) At 25 units, one
> design equals to about $15-16 a shirt. That's already with the significant
> cost reduction in submitting already colour separated source artwork, plus
> creatively designing to utilize as few screens as possible, plus going to a
> company that actually operates the factory.
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> If you did just one with "Chris Magno*, Technic God" on the back, the shirt
> would likely cost about $120. :) The other option is to do iron on white
> shirts, but hell, anyone who goes CafePress and uses PhotoShop can do one of
> those. :) Even Team KBOT can do that... (cough)
>
> I'm going to do an initial run of 30 shirts, btw. Just once I sit down and
> sort out the 89MByte of photos and videos Hitoshi Hirota sent me...and the
> 40MByte I took myself. But trust me, there will be shirts. :)
>
> Calum
> * - or Bruce Sheridan, I'm not taking sides.
So where will the printing be...on the front of back...if only one side was
printed on...say with a cool picture(s) and the rtlToronto logo...we could have
the other side to customize it ourselves with a picture of a train / our name /
title(s), etc.
Benjamin Medinets
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| (...) (URL) was the original design I was going to go with. The actual parts on the back will vary, when it was designed, rtlToronto was a Technic only group. Obviously the shirt will have a mix of Technic and Train parts :) You're certainly welcome (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Well, the problem with that is the insanely high cost of doing screen setups. Most of the production cost of the shirt (which I've been putting off for ages) is really the cost of getting films made of the camera ready art, then getting those (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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