SpreadShirt quality report
SpreadShirt has switched from iron-on to direct-to-garment printing so I ordered some shirts to check out the quality. Here's some details about what has changed:
- For those of you who are store owners, any prints you had that were not designed for plot-printing have now been automatically switched to use direct-to-garment.
- Direct-to-garment has a higher DPI (200 vs. 120) than iron-on so you need to check your shirts to see if the image has shrunk.
- The price has gone down $1.50 for dark shirts (yay!) and went up $1.50 for light shirts (no big deal).
So here's the new printer stats for SpreadShirt. Compare this to the original stats I published in the
SpreadShirt Printerview some months ago.
Printer Stats (cheapest shirt / cheapest dark shirt / shipping prices)
$10.40 (
$5.90 +
$4.50) / $10.40 ($5.90 + $4.50 for dark shirts as well) /
$4.99. Prices are for Direct-To-Garment printing. Plot printing starts at $8.90 ($5.90 +3.00) price for a single color and goes up from there.
I ordered one heather print of my Derby 30 "Greg's Flow Chart" entry and one white t-shirt I designed for my wife. I mistakenly thought heather would be dark enough to see how they do their dark printing (most direct-to-garment prints usually have a white outline around their dark prints) but it obviously was not. I'll order another one eventually and do another review on that.
As you can see the prints look good. I would say the quality is almost screen-print level -- at least while they are unwashed like this. I'll see how things have changed after a few washes and let you know. I assume the extra speckles in the black on the heather shirt is due to the heather texture since the colors on the other shirt don't have that.
One other thing to notice is the gradients printed on my wife's shirt in the last image below. That's something you can't get from most screen-prints and it came out pretty nice.
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