Is there a cheap, high-quality screenprinting kit for T-shirts?
If your okay with outsourcing your production needs entirely, Cafepress.com can do it all for you as well as put your digital works on a ton of other products, and you’ll have the nice side effect of being able to sell online as well. They’ll make them up and ship to the customer, but the shirts are $13.99 each. I did check though, and if you order 15 or more the costs go down to $9.09 each. You could then stock/sell them as needed. I’m sure you can get a cheaper deal elsewhere though I’m not sure where. Doing it on your own, for sure, would be cheaper in the short run but if you factor in costs of ink and equipment failure from overuse (no idea how modern desktop printers can handle this sort of thing) it might not be worth it. Cost of the “blank” t-shirts would also come into play as you probably won’t want the $3 t-shirts that fall apart at the slightest breeze.
jwells has a good argument – my sig.other is writing a book, and she is going to publish it on cafe press and do all sorts of other “branding” things. If you want to screenprint [it is fun] Dick Blick sells a Complete Photo/Textile Screen Printing Kit for US$300, but here are some DIY cites: The DIY Guide to Screenprinting A DIY Guide to Screen Printing T-shirts for Cheap Valley Litho Supply
