Help me - Tee-shirt emergency

Calina

Hi folks,

I have been looking at my two online photoprinting shops of choice, namely Photobox and Foto.com and neither of them look as though they can help me right now. I need to get - sorry I want to get two photographs printed onto tee shirts for my holidays which start next Thursday evening. There is no way they will get to me in time from either foto or photobox.

Can anyone recommend a walk in print shop who can do this for me along with an indication of how much it's gonna cost me?

The photos in question are:

and

and the classic

junkster12345

a friend of mine bought some kind of special printing paper in pc world, printed a photo onto it and ironed it onto a t-shirt, dont have any names of the paper r anything like that, bur sure its a start mate !

Calina

I'm actually wondering if that wouldn't be the best idea which is why I am now trawling the marksandspencers site to see if they have plain white teeshirts. I've already drawn a blank on nice bikinis. Arggh.

Thanks mate. I think PC World has the teeshirt transfer stuff. I'll check at lunch time tomorrow.

junkster12345

penneys do plain t-shirts in all different colours, im pretty sure, i bought some in dublin a few weeks ago

helios

There's a shirt printing place in Stephen's Green, but I don't know if they do full pics like that. Don't know the same of the shop, but they're on the 1st floor, next to Boots...

Alun

The T-shirt transfer thingies for your inkjet printer work, but the result is a bit plasticky, not like real printing at all. It's fine for a bit of a joke, but it's not all that hard wearing and you have to be quite careful when washing and ironing them.

Calina

I need them to survive 7 days in Morocco. I might be able to live with that. The chances are they will get soaked if I wind up wearing them kitesurfing.

Fenster

You won't get those images printed onto a shirt without converting them to bitmaps and losing a lot of the detail, unless you use an iron-on transfer.

I ironically work for a promotional materials company right now and know more about this than any one person should know.

Calina

Uhem, I specifically chose the silhouettes so as to reduce the amount of detail on offer.

Guess it'll be the iron on transfers and a trip to Penneys in Swords tomorrow then.

ThOnda

Try Shankill Photo centre, they do almost everything in da house.

They are listed here.

I am more than happy about their services. Never had a T-shirt...

melekalikimaka

helios wrote: »

There's a shirt printing place in Stephen's Green, but I don't know if they do full pics like that. Don't know the same of the shop, but they're on the 1st floor, next to Boots...

they send off to england to print, take ages

Fionn

i don’t know if this is any help but in a previous existence I was a screen printer and we used among other things gel photo stencils on stretched nylon screens which were exposed in a frame by the sun no less! and then developed/washed out by water and thus a stencil. These were mainly used for one colour prints and sometimes spot print runs
Your first photograph would come into this category. Where you could get it done - I don’t know, perhaps any local art college/group/collective or someplace. Very doable anyway especially the first one, and of course long lasting etc.
Good luck with it and lets see the Morrocan set when you get back.

Calina

Camden Clothing on Camden Street for anyone who has a similar requirement in the future. And they did a really, really nice job on them. I am pleased.