printing and shipping customised T-shirts

There are probably 100s of sites that can do this. I have familiarity with Spreadshirt - they also, like Zazzle, for instance, do mugs and other tchotchkes. You can find a lot of suppliers by checking Spotify.

Probably your best bet for finding the best solution is to checkout the UKs T-Shirt Forum...

Doubting that one. These companies make more selling you the shirt they are printing for you, than through the printing, itself. They buy those shirts for close to nothing, by the hundreds of thousands.

Find a screen printer in your area. They are more likely to be willing to print on shirts that you supply.

You need to do some research on the marketplace for custom t-shirts.


There are dozens and dozens of companies that will take your designs, print them on customer-ordered t-shirts, and ship them to the buyer for you. It's mostly hands off (for you) except the marketing.


In addition, you can take it one step further and place your designs on t-shirts from companies that are already marketing their inventory for you. You earn a commission every time your design is purchased. You can make commissions without marketing (although it is much more profitable to add your own marketing and send your traffic to the t-shirt seller).


The point is, all of what you want is already available from multiple outlets. But you need to understand this very competitive marketplace, how it works, and the alternatives available.


IMO, there is more money to be made and much less hassle by outsourcing the whole sell-print-ship process and you focus on coming up with great designs.


Steve

that's exactly what I am trying to do... what exactly do you mean by outsourcing in this case ?

ye, that's probably what I am going to do as well...
How did you then handle the orders from customers and shipping the shirts to them ?

You're doing everything by yourself ?

There is Printful.com and have good qulaity products

There's dozens of them nowadays.


It really depends on your location and what type of shirts you are looking for. Printful, GearBubble, Printify, Inkthreadable are all good.

So, If I understand that well you're looking for a "Print on demand" company.


I would suggest Teelaunch, Teescape or Printful, We have tried all of them and the 3 offer a very good quality with a large choice of styles.


All these companies have an app that you can integrate with Shopify and Woocommerce (the later with Printful & Teescape).


You can auto fulfill orders directly by selecting that option from your admin dashboard.


The Shipping rates are quite good (starting from $3.99 for USA orders and for small packages).


Good luck!

I've sold hundreds of thousands of t-shirts over the years.
But, got out of it last year. Competition has driven the price way down.

You have 4 options. I've used each of them.

1. Print on demand company.

Pros: They will print and ship it for you fairly quickly
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Cons: Price is usually high. They use direct to garment technology which is not as good as screen printing.


2. Contract Printer

Pros: Lowest price and high quality.

Cons: You need a large volume. They will only ship in bulk.


3. Local Printer

Pros: Easiest and quickest to work with. They are hungry for business. You can check on the quality.

Cons: Most can't handle large rush orders. They probably won't ship for you.


4. Set up your own printing

Pros: You have complete control. After set up the cost per shirt will be the lowest.

Cons: Upfront cost. Learning yourself or hiring and managing staff.


If I was starting a new t-shirt company I would go with the Local Printer and then expand to the Contract Printer when I had the volume.

We're currently using Gearlaunch and Prinitfy and they've been working great.

There's many of them these days.

It truly relies upon your area and what kind of shirts you are searching for. Printful, GearBubble, Printify, Inkthreadable are generally great.