Comments on: CafePress Sucks Ass 2: Electric Boogaloo

By: any non moose

any non moose — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:37:16 +0000

What year is this? 1993?

It is pitiful, I can’t upload an image and have random net users print a poster reliably .. I can’t search on a movie title and watch a movie online .. and about a decade back some “kick arse anti-authority” band called Metallica killed the one usable music service.

If there’s no conspiracy, maybe there should be.

By: oazam

oazam — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:03:15 +0000

I am very disappointed with a black tshirt that had direct printing on it. there was ghosting on all the transparent areas and the colors are extremely muted. not at all like the preview before i ordered. anyone know of a place that does good custom tshirts on a black tee?

By: CharPaula

CharPaula — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:26:59 +0000

Another new contender is Printfection. They have a huge selection of colors including many darks
http://www.printfection.com/

By: Patrick McFarland

Patrick McFarland — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:54:56 +0000

Ahah! A new contender!

By: Cade

Cade — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:31:35 +0000

Came across your site somehow. You might want to give http://www.imagekind.com a look.

By: honey bunny

honey bunny — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:07:08 +0000

i’ve had nothing but good luck with cafepress. zazzle, on the other hand, sucks ass. the only product they offer that has turned out consistant nice-quality images are the stamps. everything else is crap. i ordered some magnets with two of my designs on them. they didn’t bleed one of them, so there was white space at the top and bottom and they didn’t center the other one. i double checked my design/layout after I got the items in the mail and wouldn’t you know it, everything looks perfect and i had everything sized correctly. they just don’t take the time to care much about the output of their product. oh, and using DHL as their shipper is ridiculous, IMO.

By: stan pun

stan pun — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:32:47 +0000

I know Zazzle low DPI requirements sounds like a concern, but I ordered this one photo-illustration that i did and there was no pixellation or artifacting in the image at all. it was pretty nice.

I have washed one direct print Cafepress shirt so far,… inside out, and in warm temp, no dryer. Yes it did age a bit. Shoot, I have silk screen shirts that are 15 years old that still look pretty vibrant. I am surprised there aren’t more complaints on the web.
Have not tried washing a black shirt yet.

I think they might have less fading with a cotton poly blend shirt.

By: Patrick McFarland

Patrick McFarland — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:19:13 +0000

Yeah, I’d like to hear what happens.

By: chaostheorem

chaostheorem — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:21:59 +0000

I’m about to give CafePress a try, because I don’t have the resources to set up my own shop or deal with pre/post-sales processes, but still would like to offer merchandise to help re-establish a nearly dead brand (Blaster Master).

I’ll post comments if anything comes up. If something does go wrong, I can try Zazzle and see what happens. I’ve been watching CafePress for awhile, but have only heard one complaint (from MegaTokyo), but I can’t recall what it was.

The only other self-publication site I’ve seen besides the three you’ve mentioned, is Lulu.com, but they don’t appear to offer printing on clothing items or such.