So what company did the superbowl shirts and playoff shirts??

[ondalevel]

just wondering who gets all that work and how many pennies per shirt they make.....

[tonypep]

Standard Hot Market pricing is usually .95 and typically requires a holographic sticker

[Socalfmf]

and they get paid in 90-120 days....yeah just the kind of business I would want...

[Homer]

Standard Hot Market pricing is usually .95 and typically requires a holographic sticker

why does it need the holographic sticker?

[JBLUE]

Standard Hot Market pricing is usually .95 and typically requires a holographic sticker

why does it need the holographic sticker?

To prevent knock offs.

[Homer]

But I can make those too?  that's easier than making the damn shirt haha

[mk162]

Really?  We need to talk.

Just kidding.

$.95 a shirt is great money compared to what a local company here is getting themselves into.

[ebscreen]

Tip of the hat to the Baltimore shops, probably still printing...

[Homer]

A handfull, usually 3 - 5 shops depending on the popularity of the team, etc.

We printed for the niners for the nfc championship. And the Giants for the world series.

Set to print last night, but that didn't happen. Ha.

It's pretty good work, but the hours are rough. Cranking out shirts at 4 am gets delirious quick.

Tip of the hat to the Baltimore shops, probably still printing...

outta curiosity, do you now eat the expense from that since they lost?

[mk162]

I am not sure we recouped the cost if our team lost, we used to do a lot of Braves stuff back when.  I would have to ask my dad how it worked.  All I know is I usually missed the next day of school.

[ebscreen]

Personally, they've been very very good to me and are really nice folks to deal with. Potential for a bunch of other non sports work as well.

The holograms are the worst of the deal.

[Dottonedan]

I was given a rush sep job that was a tee depicting both teams before the game last week. They were honestly in stores next day.


I partnered with Scott from Myseps on it due to my work load that day. He did his version and did a good job. I combined it with what I wanted out of it and in the end, it was a great print with a bit of both of our flavors in it. You might wonder why I would change what he did. Most of what he did was was left intact. Maybe 9 times out of 10, many wouldn't change what he did. Honestly it's a simple matter of preference, Every individual artist or separator has there own way of how they would handle something. Each of those may have been considered in the accurate range but each individual would still do something a little different than the other. So there was nothing wrong with what he did, just a little different than what I'd prefer to do myself. Partnering with him on this one cut my time down on it and together, we provided a successful print out the door. It was about leveraging your resources to get a job done in a pinch.


At Disney, the character artist all had a rule guide of how they were to draw Mickey and each character. Still, each character artist had their own little special way of doing the characters. While each were "correct", they each had something about them to where (on the inside), we artist could tell what character artist did what character. Same thing for designers. Give them the same job with same specs and each would design something different but all be correct.


From what I hear it went smoothly. No change on press. I haven't seen an actual print.


That same Co is at least one of the printers in Baltimore. I asked for a pic of the print or a sample and then asked if I could show it on the forum...but didn't get a reply yet. I'm the least of there worries right now I guess LOL. For that reason, I probably shouldn't mention what printer it was until I get permission. They seem to protect licensed business and who's involved with what. No biggie to me, but... you know.

[tonypep]

A couple of winters ago we had a freak snowstorm in ATL. Nike actually rented a SUV aan ran around Sunday night picking up all my peeps. Printed all night and into the morning but the truck couldn't get through the interstate so they rented a U-Haul and went out to all the stores and personally delivered the merch . Took the rest of the week to recover from all that.

[CastleKing]

and they get paid in 90-120 days....yeah just the kind of business I would want...

Not sure which of the NFL licensees you were dealing with. We have done a bunch of hot market printing and always get paid NET 15-30. Never in 90 days.

We also dictate what price we'll print at. There is nothing quite like billing out $30,000-$40,000 for 2 days of work. The hours suck but you can always catch up on sleep later. When you prove yourself to be a reliable partner, these types of customers are great to work with.

[Socalfmf]

Dan

great to see you here...I heard from two hot market printers it took them over 90 days to get paid...glad things have changed...but then again they are no longer IN BUSINESS....and yeah billing that much that quick would be AWEEEESOME