customink.com

[kirkage]

Can anyone put a dollar value of customink.com's t-shirt creator app? I don't like when people bring designs that they made from that site to be re-done. I want them to design and have the vector ready to go by the customers using my own app.

[GraphicDisorder]

Can anyone put a dollar value of customink.com's t-shirt creator app? I don't like when people bring designs that they made from that site to be re-done. I want them to design and have the vector ready to go by the customers using my own app.

There are several services out there offering the same thing as that does, but some are buggy or crap.  I think Sam had one for awhile?  Some are 10's of 1,000's if you bought it outright. 

[Frog]

Can anyone put a dollar value of customink.com's t-shirt creator app? I don't like when people bring designs that they made from that site to be re-done. I want them to design and have the vector ready to go by the customers using my own app.

Does this mean that you have branched out from only selling your own pre-print designs?

[inkman996]

I would assume all of custom inks online software is proprietary and written by them.

[jsheridan]

your customers are NOT artists..

YOU are.. take what they give you and make it better.

if you can design an app to do that, good on you.

[GraphicDisorder]

your customers are NOT artists..

YOU are.. take what they give you and make it better.

deal with it bro because that's the way it is.

You should see the screen printing around our area, not at all artists LOL. 

[kirkage]

The idea for the next website is one where you design your own shirt and it gets posted to the page. If it sells 10 units yours is free and you will get one dollar for each one sold thereafter for life. I plan to use social media to have customers promote their own design thereby promoting the website. I have written a t-shirt designer (80% complete) app that will work on mobile devices as well as the web. I do a few custom jobs for friends and what not and they are a pain in the butt. (the art). I wonder if there is a market for my designer app where customers can design t-shirts that produce the full size "clean" art for the screen printers. This app could be by used by screen printers who send their customers there to design their hearts out knowing they will get good clean art on the other end.

[Frog]

Curious as to the licensing of clip art used on these designer sites.
Does the design site operator need a different license than the one we get when we buy a disk or download a package (assuming commercial use included)?

[Donnie]

I've had people ask me to what my quote would be for "this" from custom ink. My initial reaction is that I would not put that sh!t on my worst enemy. It usually has multiple colors and they usually want just of few... I usually say, "no thanks".  But there has been a few times that we landed a decent gig by vastly improving the art.

But to the point of "having that kind of software", for me, I don't see much of a profit over costs benefit at this point.

[rmonks]

I like it when a customer emails me a design they created at Custom ink, and ask what my price would be. I then go to Custom ink site and plug in the design info they sent me and price it a little under Custom inks price . I think it is a great tool

[TCT]

We used to get orders from schools all the time where they would just send us the design link from customink. All we had to do was open it up, enlarge it, drop it in vector magic and roll with it! It was great!

@kirkage checkout inksoft or openshirt. They have done what you want already, there are like 5 other ones I just can't think of them off the top of my head.

[sweetts]

Wouldn't it be unethical to use their artwork?


Roger
RT screen designs
Www.rtscreendesigns. Com

[GraphicDisorder]

Illegal I am sure. 

[kingscreen]

There are some figures in this article that will give you an idea. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/11/customink-40m-ted-leonsis/
Their site is proprietary and the cost likely has few commas in it.

[kirkage]

Thanks for the info everyone. I am going to proceed with finishing the design app. At the very least I will make it part of the admin system for swellshirt.com so that we can design and upload new shirts quickly and have the art ready for burning the screens.

Frog, as far as the clip art, I have found a ton of free vectors over time as well as fonts. I am going to roll with it.