Archive for August, 2007
Goodstorm Digital Printing and Scheduled Maintenance
Just received this email from Goodstorm. Normally I wouldn’t get to excited about scheduled maintenance but there is one part of the email that sounded pretty good to me “These upgrades will result in a higher print quality on all products sold through your GoodStorm storefront.“. If you are interested in the email it is [...]
Share your Spreadshirt T-Shirt Stories
Spreadshirt is accepting submissions to the Spreadshirt Blog of “t-shirt stories”. It might be pretty cool if people send in pictures of themselves to go along with their stories, otherwise it might just be a glorified testimonials page. It will be interesting to watch to see how many entries they receive. Maybe I am greedy [...]
Organic T-Shirts and Eco-Friendly Inks
Three cheers for environmentally friendly water based inks to go with those Organic T-Shirts. I was a little late as this announcement on TreeHugger.com was back in 2005 but I still think its a great story. Treehuggers.com reported on TSDesigns, whose tagline is “Printing t-shirts for good” have discovered an eco-friendly screenprinting technique they call [...]
Cafepress Chat - Public Relations (8/15/07)
Cafepress is having a chat about Public Relations and how it can benefit you as a Cafepress shopkeeper. The chat is Wednesday August 15th 2007 from 4-5pm in the Cafepress Chatroom. Chats are usually moderated but following an overview by a Cafepress employee you will be provided an opportunity to ask questions.
Writable Flex T-Shirts at Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt just announced in their newsletter that it is introducing a cool idea of flex printing that you can write on. The flex print acts just like a chalkboard/wipeboard and you can use some type of marker (erasable marker) and write, re-write, until you go bonkers. I can imagine a few designs or instances where [...]
La Fraise ready to battle it out with Threadless in the U.S.
Exciting Commerce and Blognation recently reported that La Fraise (a company that was purchased by Spreadshirt.com in December 2006) is going to enter the U.S. market on August 15th 2007. La Fraise, who boasts 80,000 community members is an ongoing t-shirt design competition site similar to Threadless. As of now their shipping options were limited [...]
Printfection API
In the Printfection Forums and on last months Shop Keeper commission checks, Printfection announced that they are looking for people to provide input and maybe test a new API that they are developing. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Cafepress Voice - Shopkeeper Feedback Committees
A few months ago Cafepress.com created Cafepress Voice committees to provide direct feedback to Cafepress staff on products, quality, site features and more. Forums and blogs are a great way to maintain communication with your community members but sometimes you really need to work with a smaller more focused group and CP Voice meets [...]
Free T-Shirts for your Business? Vista Print
Vista Print recently launched a new custom t-shirt designer and to get attention and customers they have an offer free t-shirt. Who doesn’t like something that is free? Well, its a great t-shirt if you like one of their seventeen business card like templates. It is largely marketed towards business owners to create t-shirts for [...]
Printfection is Growing (with growing pains)
The rapid addition of products and designs to the relatively new Printfection.com started to bring the site to a hault. In May, Printfection hit their first 1 million products (good job!). In July, pages started to load really slow and sometimes take 30-60 seconds before the products would load (even off high speed DSL). This [...]
