Any recommendations for a gay printshop online?

[MrMax]

I want to get some postcards and small business cards made up with my sites logo and want to find a good gay printshop who can do this.
If possible Id also like to get my logo put on some jockstraps and baseball hats too.

Any recommendations on who to go to who does small orders?

[fetishlad]

funnily enough - vistaprint is quite good. I have printed a lot of sexually explicit stuff with them - and always got what I wanted.

their stuff is good quality - the only downside is that when you sign up with them and are on their mailing list - you get loads of spam.

for jockstraps - good luck - I have no idea where you can have that done ...

[gaybucks_chip]

For screen printing we use BK Sportswear in Oakland, CA. Fast, inexpensive, and do good work. They also do embroidery, but I've never priced them for that.

For printing of postcards and such, it's such a moving target. Most of the cheapo print places that advertise online (the ones that do promo cards for clubs and such) will do adult, and they're always undercutting each other, so I don't have a specific recommendation.

[fetishlad]

Hey Chip - do you happen to know if they deliver allover the world ( I am in the UK) - as embroidery is the new black in fashion ....


For screen printing we use BK Sportswear in Oakland, CA. Fast, inexpensive, and do good work. They also do embroidery, but I've never priced them for that.

For printing of postcards and such, it's such a moving target. Most of the cheapo print places that advertise online (the ones that do promo cards for clubs and such) will do adult, and they're always undercutting each other, so I don't have a specific recommendation.

[gaybucks_chip]

They probably would, but I bet you'd get dinged pretty hard on customs and shipping... wearable items are big and bulky but don't weigh much, so you tend to get charged a lot because of the space they take up.

I'd be surprised if there aren't any embroidery places in the UK. Honestly, what we did was find a tiny operation -- one woman who has an embroidery machine in her garage and does it evenings and weekends when she's not at her regular job -- and actually got her to match the price of a large high volume place. She was happy to get the work, and turned everything around in just a few days.

One other tip if you decide to go the embroidery route: When you go embroidery, you have to pay someone to convert your design from a .jpg or whatever to a set of stitching instructions for the embroidery machine. This is typically a huge profit center for the embroidery place. I used http://cheapdigitizing.com/ to do the digitizing of the design. They charged about 1/6 of what the US-based digitizers wanted to charge me to digitize (literally I think it was $10 or $15 for a job I'd been quoted $75-100 for.) You send them a .jpg or other digital file, they turn it around within usually a day or two. They did great work and turned it around very quickly.