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Tips on How to Design Your Own T-shirt
Author: Francesco Kafferty
OK so you've had some great ideas for custom t-shirts floating around in your head for a while and now you want to turn them into reality. What are your first steps to take and how can you get your finished product on your back or on the market as quickly and expediently as possible?
Possible Design Adjustments
If you are lucky, your designs and the color schemes in them will coordinate beautifully on a finished t-shirt but more often then not you will have to make some type of adjustments. This all has to do with the types of ink that are used and just how your t-shit is going to be printed out.
Light Colors on Dark Fabric
For instance, light colors on a dark fabric present their own particular problems that has to do with coverage. That is that a light color on a dark shirt is not going to be as vivarant as you might have in mind. That is unless you have your custom t-shirt silk screened with a thick rubbery type of colorant.
Digital Printing
For digital printing, which is the fastest and cheapest method, you are going to have to think light colored fabrics. This is because the type of dye that digital t-shirt printers use is thin, so it will work in the ink jets hence, it it simply wont cover a dark fabric as well.
Silk Screening
If you are determined to go with light colors over dark fabric, then you are going to have to go with silk screening, which means higher expense and a minimum order requirement. Also, with silk screening the more colors that you use in your design scheme, the more it is going to cost you, because each color requires a separate frame to be made and a separate pass with the ink.
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I would like to respond to this article, which maligns my good name.
Since you’ve shown some difficulty with definitions regarding the publishing industry, I feel the need to clarify this point. Malign means to make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of and having or showing malice or ill will.
There are none of those elements in my blog post. Rather it appears as though you take exception to hearing the truth, which isn’t malicious. It’s simply being informed. On the other hand, you’ve maligned commercial publishing with your unfounded statements of our inherent horribleness.
I have never tried to hide the fact that if an author’s work does not sell well, neither Flying Pen Press nor the author will make any money,
That isn’t what you said. You said, “If we purchase rights to a book that does not sell well, we are not out much money at all.”
That is vastly different than saying “we won’t make any money.” My point is that your “save ourselves first and foremost” mentality derives from the fact that you can’t afford any risk and stick their neck out for their authors. I fail to see how this is advantageous to the author.
Other authors like the effort we put into publicizing their work, as we work harder than large publishers who simply put the midlist authors on a line in a catalog and let it sink.
This statement is just plain silly. Commercial publishers have something you lack: reputation, distribution, and store placement. This pales to a POD business model with little money and an inability to shoulder any risk.
I make no bones about asking authors to share the risk with Flying Pen Press. In return, we offer greater royalties, up to 46% of the profits garnered from the sale of each book.
All the gee-wizardry of higher royalties mean nothing if you can’t get the book to the marketplace.
As to the point you make that success takes money, that is not so. The quote is, “To be successful, you need a lot of money or a lot of sweat.” We don’t have the money, so we go with the sweat. Buzz marketing can’t be bought, so sweat really works best.
This is nonsense. Buzz marketing = internet marketing, and everyone knows it’s very hard to be heard above the vast din of the internet.
Microsoft was built with sweat equity, not start-up capital. George Lucas became the richest man in Hollywood with hard work and not one thin dime of start-up capital.
Please. This is a garbage comparison. You have told authors that you have re-built the publishing wheel and that those mean, nasty commercial presses are a sure road to hell. Gates and Lucas didn’t need to lie because they had a product that was truly revolutionary. You are an ill-informed source for new writers who know nothing about the industry.
A thimble of hard work and a drop of knowledge is worth a barrel of investment.
You simply could not be more wrong. Those who believe this don’t sell books for a living.
That you would say that writers can’t learn enough or work hard enough to do what publishers do with money (and more often than not, don’t do with money) is an insult to writers everywhere.
I stand by that statement because it’s not the author’s job to learn the job of a publisher unless they intend on becoming their own publisher for their book. Do I need to know how to fly a jet just because I want to catch a flight to San Francisco? No, I trust the pilot with my life. The author trusts (or should) a reputable, successful publisher to take care of their book.
(and more often than not, don’t do with money)
Really? Cite your proof.
Yes, printing on demand means little risk. Which is why so many good authors are beginning to wake up and realize that they can reach the same bookstores, the same distributors, the same readers, for about four times more income, through self-publication via the POD model. By reducing the risk, publishers are less attractive to writers.
This is woefully wrong. If that were the case the POD business model would be emulated by commercial presses.
As people pointed out, don’t confuse the technology of POD (used by every major publishing company in the world, including university presses and literary presses)
As I keep saying, POD is not technology. It’s a business model. You’re talking about digital printing. POD publishers such as yourself continue to use this terminology in order to appear to be more mainstream than you really are. Yes, all publishers use the digital printing technology – as I’ve repeated over and over on this post.
Lightning Source is our POD printer, a subsidiary of Ingram Books Company, and through them, we get global distribution into bookstores, Amazon, libraries, Ingram and Baker & Taylor, as well as all the major European distributors and wholesalers, without spending any money for warehousing.
Let’s be very clear about this. LSI puts you into the Ingram, etc. catalog. They do not have sales teams out there pitching books to genre buyers. This is nothing more than being listed on a database. If no one knows your POD book exists, then being in a catalog has no meaning.
Lightning Source managed the distribution of the Sarah Palin book that went bestseller overnight in the 2008 election when she was first announced as a candidate. Chances are, you have a Lightning Source-printed title in your house right now.
Yes, LSI has an evergreen option that many publishers take advantage of once the main print run(s) are done and the book is out for a while. This happens when orders trickle in. You’re comparing yourself to Sarah Palin’s publisher just because they have the evergreen option? Please.
I would go as far as to say that most POD books are published not by self-published or vanity-published authors, but by conventional publishing companies.
Cite your sources.
A publisher who does not take the costs of printing and warehousing and distribution into account, because “POD is just not right,” is headed down the path to bankruptcy.
Um. No kidding. And you mean digital, not POD. Commercial presses to P&L statements, and all that is taken into consideration. What’s your point? The difference is that we accept books that we believe are marketable to a large enough readership in order to make money for everyone. That’s why we use web-based printing – it’s more affordable than digital. However, we use digital printing for our backlist and ARCs.
Warehouse costs are completely eliminated with POD (provided that they are involved with the distribution process through Just-In-Time distribution, which so far, it seems Lightning Source is the only one to go that route, but it does go that route, globally).
Great. So you have no distribution costs. But authors need to be prepared to acknowledge that they will never have the ability to have a successful book because you simply aren’t equipped for it. You don’t have the money to pay for a large print run that needs to be warehoused all over the country, you have no distribution, and little working capital to market and promote to any efficacy.
A palette of unsold books is such a big expense, that any mass-printing decision has to take it into account. Mass printing also has to deal with higher returns, and with inventory risk.
Yes, David, these are the risks a commercial publisher takes because they believe in the book.
If you print 5,000 books for $10,000, but only sell 500 of them, that makes the print cost of each book $20, plus the warehousing cost for books not sold, plus the costs of processing returns, equalling perhaps as much as $40 per book sold.
First off, any publisher who’s paying $2 per book is a fool. For an average sized book ~ 250 pages, tpp, the cost to print 5k units would pay about a dollar a book. Secondly, no one is going to print up 5k units unless they know darn well the book is going to sell through. Only an idiot would print up that kind of a run. Since you’re not a commercial publisher, you simply don’t know printing costs, nor do you appear to understand how publishers arrive at a print run size.
But here is the rub. Without pre-publication orders for the book, you have no idea of how the book will sell.
Perhaps you have no idea, but experienced commercial publishers have a very good idea of how a title will sell. Do we all make mistakes? Sure we do. But we win much more than we lose because commercial presses have experience of selling books to booksellers, have their finger on the pulse of readers, and they have a very good promotion plan.
Preorders may suck because booksellers, in general, are waiting to see what demand will be. But once that book is out, they can’t get them quickly enough. Publishers have already scheduled that out and are ready for it.
I must say that I am confused, since Behler Publications is exactly the kind of publishing house that POD works best for.
You mean digital printing? You’re right – we use digital printing in our ARCs and backlist title. But we do web-based runs (offset) for all our books. Our runs start at 2500 and go up to 15,000k. We do that because those books sell. So where do you get the idea that digital is the best way for us to go? Proof, please.
How much money are you spending on printing and warehousing books that would better be spent on marketing? How much of your bottom linie is taken up by the warehouse costs of Partners Publishers Group? The titles I see in your catalog certainly seem worthy of focus on marketing, not on warehousing, with perhaps the exception of the writing guides that probably move in larger numbers.
For starters, our contractual agreements are with PPG are none of your business. What’s worrisome is that you’re suggesting that warehousing costs vs. promotion is an either/or proposition. That is the mindset of the POD business model because for you, with little operating cash, it really is a choice – all which isn’t to the author’s benefit.
My point with all this is that until you actually become a commercial press, then you aren't able to qualify your opinions with anything more than, well, opinion. In that, it becomes hard to take your claims seriously.]]>