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Custom T-Shirt? What's the best material?

KharnastusKharnastus Registered User regular
So the plan is to get some T-Shirts Printed up for sale at some shows I have coming up. As I have limited experience with choosing what material a T-Shirt is made out of I figured I might ask you fine peoples.
OBJECTIVES:
-SUPER COMFY
-Limited Image Fade (Gotta get that band awareness out there, right?)
-Don't care about price!

ADVISE!

Thanks in advance for your enlightened thoughts!

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    I prefer 100% cotton personally.

  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    Cotton is where it's at. Most quality shirts take a lot of washes to fade, unless you are doing a specialty ink like metallic colors or something like that. Then it's more of a gamble with the screen printing place. Water based inks can be really nice, but being in a metal band, we've mostly done plastisol to keep opacity on black shirts. I definitely prefer at least a 2 color print for keeping the visual interest up, though I've seen black ink on white shirts work, as long as the art is cool enough.

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