I used to silkscreen T-Shirts. My friend Travis and I started up a small silkscreening company back when we were in high school. The idea was to do some of the smaller contracts for various high schools. To call our venture a success would be a bit of an overstatement. I think by the time we shut everything down we had probably ultimately lost a bit of money. We did a few contracts – the two that immediately pop to mind were the Laurier S.S. Music trip and the South C.I. Red Feather shirts. One successful, one not so much. There were others too. No big contracts. A few hundred shirts tops. For some reason we were NEVER able to pull our shit together and finish the contracts ahead of schedule. Don’t get me wrong – we weren’t late either. We always ended up pulling all-nighters the night before the contract was due screening and curing like madmen, mainlining Coke (the soft drink, not the narcotic) to stay awake. We also had a small retail line that actually sold a fair amount of shirts down at Grand Bend one summer. Our personal favourite design we never sold any of beacause it wasn’t really a “Grand Bend” type of design but we each had a couple of the shirts for ourself. (It was the “Werewolves of London” design. Hella Cool.)
So, what was that it made me wax nostalgic over days past? This. Some company has released a special, dedicated printer that will print full colour T-Shirts using special textile inks. Man…the stuff we could’ve done if one of these babies existed back then. It’s expensive, but the TCO isn’t too bad as long as you could have a market for the shirts. A dedicated person could probably make back the cost of the unit within 4-5 months and be riding a small gravy train after that.
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