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Small run, kinda knockoff tees?
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Thorzdad
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Jul 24, 2024, 08:25 PM
 
Theoretically speaking...

How hard/tricky is it to get a couple of...um...potentially IP-violating t-shirts printed?

Let’s say I have some never-approved-or-produced art I designed ages ago at a prior place of employment. Just how tricky might it be to get a few (like, maybe 5 or 6) t-shirts printed-up for my own use? Assume the art is all full-color Illustrator files.

I have a Redbubble account, but I have to think that, while it’s all print-on-demand, they probably watch out for potential IP violations.

Thoughts?
     
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Jul 24, 2024, 08:42 PM
 
You may get flagged at redbubble or zazzle... but for >10 shirts you're not exactly knocking off concert tshirts. Might also depend on whose IP it is...

(recently at a concert and was surprised by print quality of the parking lot knockoffs!)

I'd risk it. Or you can try the iron-on via inkjet printers...
     
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Paging devils rancher
     
Thorzdad  (op)
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Jul 25, 2024, 03:46 AM
 
Originally Posted by andi*pandi View Post
Might also depend on whose IP it is...
Theoretically...it might be a fat, orange thing I (or someone amazingly like me) did design work for, for 15 years.
     
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Jul 25, 2024, 09:19 AM
 
I feel like bribing a local might be the way to go.
     
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Jul 25, 2024, 12:02 PM
 
Does this orange thing have a vendetta against the beginning of the workweek? I have to see this design now.
     
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Jul 25, 2024, 12:39 PM
 
There are generally going to be small mom and pop shops with DTG capabilities if you live in any decent-sized urban area. When this sort of stuff comes through here (you’re below my minimum and we don’t do DTG) I figure you’re the one who’s gonna get the cease and desist letter if the IP issue ever comes to someone’s attention.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
     
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DTG = Direct To... ?
     
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Jul 25, 2024, 03:18 PM
 
Garment.
     
   
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