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Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

Whoa. I need. Now.

GSL · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:36 am Post subject:

<JediMindTrick>Shaper, you will make preparations to have that shirt sold in the TGQ store.</JediMindTrick>

dhex · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:25 am Post subject:

that's a nice shirt.
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Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

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dhex · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

HOLY SHIT FUCK YEAH NJHC.

hey wilkes, do you know anything about setting up a home screen printing operation? (i presume the answer is yet)
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Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

home screen printing? more trouble than it's probably worth. especially if it's less a home and more an apartment. well, I guess it's no less a home. still troublesome.

YEAH

I'll give you a print of that shirt sometime. And the orange one from above.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject:

ok, i know it's more trouble than its worth.

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

i know someone with a spare room in his apartment. we're both like, stupid enough to want to make our own posters and shirts and shit. i'm only a pre-press guy, though, so i don't know diddly. this poor fucker has a goddamn cinema studies degree.

so, like, yeah! point us in the direction of depravity and frustration!
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Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

well, my natural inclination would be to tell you to let me live in the room and in exchange, I'll make you all the t-shirts you want.

though, that COA might not work so well for you.

HMM. I'll get some information together. I work with large, professional equipment that takes up a huge amount of space. I couldn't imagine doing this kind of stuff just anywhere.

stay tuned!!!
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

thank you sir.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I've made screen-printing equipment by hand.

It's not that hard and could easily be done in an apartment. The issues are that you have to cut a stencil yourself with an Exacto knife and then you have to decide whether you can resign yourself to a very small run of prints (before the stencil gets destroyed) or permanently affix the stencil to the screen, meaning that you have to make another screen setup.

There's probably a better way to do it, I just learned the DIY method.

GSL · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

That shirt would a perfect NJ souvenier. New York has their stupid I <3 NY shirts, New Jersey could have "Oh, the humanity!"

Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

OK. SO.

I asked my boss for some advice on this and I could literally hear the slurp of his eyes rolling back in his head. He hates screening. He suggests a garment printer; I don't think he really understands the versatility of screen printing.

Really, what you need is a good idea of how you want what you're printing to look. Doing some research has made me interested in doing this on an amature level, though it still looks tough.

Here is a slight guide I got from wikipedia that you probably have already seen. Bully me if you haven't.

Good luck! Sorry I couldn't actually help.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

well, if i had access to a garment printer, that would be a different story.

but, hey, seeing as they run 15 to 20 grand, etc etc and so forth.

i've got some time coming up in august so we'll see what we see then. thanks y'all.
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Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

hey garment printers are only, like, 12 grand now!
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Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

A comic for Dhex.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

These chinese posters have made my day.

(By the way, I have no idea who this Jack fellow is. )

dhex · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:47 am Post subject:

jack thompson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29

are those chinese folk parachuting into adorability land?
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

They're parachuting into my heart!

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

A lot of those make me think of game art, like Advance Wars or something. They're really quite lovely.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject:

a friend of mine is selling these.

she is awesome. you should give her money.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I like these shirts. I think they're the best thing ever to come out of Something Awful.

Edit: The only sizes they have them in are XL, XXL, or XXXL Sad

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Of course. It wouldn't be RAP any other way, would it?

dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject:

that duckasaurus shirt is excellent.
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

i definitely think i'll be getting that orange one with the marlin penguin thing.

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject:

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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I asked one of my friends. She said it's because he died.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

a drawing for dhex.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I bought a neat shirt that says "Robot Power" but I can't find it on the Giant Robot site.

Others may be interested in this shirt although it's a little pricey:

Notice that each of the pixels is in fact a smaller invader.
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