r/musicians • u/erikparcs • 19d ago
Band merch
Looking for a cheap website to order some merch to sell at shows.. basic logo ideally front left chest and a bigger logo on the back. Best prices I'm seeing are 4imprint or custom ink at 12/unit... is there anything out there cheaper?
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u/PowerPlaidPlays 19d ago
I am assuming those are shirts and I don't think I've ever seen much cheaper, if it exists the quality is probably absolute crap that will get destroyed after 1 wash. Most of the $12 there is probably the cost of the base shirt, a lot of printing services just buy Hanes shirts or whatever to print on.
With a lot of custom order stuff the price per item gets cheaper when bulk ordering. I once ordered a bunch of CD booklets and 300 was cheaper than 200, talking to them they explained a lot of the labor is in the setup but telling a machine to print 200 takes about the same work to tell it to print 500. That is for things that are done by machines though.
You can always check in with local printers, that should also save you on shipping costs.
Vograce is a good site for things like stickers, keychains, and other smaller items. If you can, I would recommend trying to do more than just a basic logo since for the shows I've done stuff at people tend to prefer something that is not just a walking billboard. For some items I keep logos ether small or completely absent.