A few weeks ago we wound up in touch with Brad Wayland, one of the folks from nearby custom printing/embroidery company BlueCotton. I used to work at a screen printing place, but I don’t tend to cover the industry much by way of reviews because it’s really hard to talk about a service-based company unless you’ve actually tried them or seen their product.
But one thing lead to another and I was able to get my hands on some of BlueCotton’s printed products to see the quality.
As someone who’s been in the industry, I was pretty impressed. For all you clothing line owners who have already delved a little bit into the printing world, here’s the technical rundown:
They sent a few dark tees with underbased prints that held up under stress testing of stretching the material (if you see cracks in the print when stretching the tee, you know it wasn’t properly cured). The trapping was spot on and it looked like the artwork had been well-prepped.
For you less technical folks: The prints looked great.
As far as service — a lot of people have some great things to say about them, and when we asked Brad why he thought BlueCotton was different than the zillion other screen printing companies out there, here’s what he had to say:
There are a couple of things we have at BlueCotton.com that make us unique. Most importantly we are customer obsessed. Our goal is not to meet expectations. We are trying to gain fans. We want our customers to love us so much that they become ambassadors for us. This love for the customer is evident in everything we do from the customer service, art, and production. We constantly ask ourselves how we can grow from investing in the customer rather than spending $ on traditional marketing.
Secondly, our DesignStudio is very popular. We have calls on a daily basis from printers that want to integrate our design platform into their website. Our customers love it and it has receives critical acclaim from Adobe, Gizmodo and others.
If you’re like me though, you want to try a company before forming an opinion, so the folks at BlueCotton have graciously offered PCT readers a chance to win 24 custom printed t-shirts on any color tee and with up to 3 colors of ink. This is a killer opportunity to launch your clothing line, or sample another printer if your current one isn’t quite up to snuff.
So here’s the details:
Up for Grabs:
24 short sleeve t-shirts printed with your design from BlueCotton. Up to 3 colors of ink on any color of t-shirt.
How to win:
There are TWO ways to win:
- Leave a comment below telling (or showing) us what you plan to get printed if you win.
- Post a tweet about this contest by copying and pasting following message: Enter to Win 24 FREE custom tees from @BlueCottonTweet and @popculturetees http://bit.ly/bHPyR7 #pctcontest
If you do both, you’ll get two entries into the contest!
Rules:
- Contest lasts from March 30th – April 6th (11:59 pm CST)
- One winner will be randomly drawn from all website & twitter entries.
- Winner will be posted on the website by Friday, April 9th.
Learn more about BlueCotton:
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This would be an awesome opportunity to place my Macklab Media logo on a tshirt to wear around! Count me in!
http://www.macklabmedia.com
-Trey
Cool Contest. If I win, I'll get geocaching shirts printed up for an event! A shirt would be a great incentive for people to come
I would have shirts printed for our library. We don't have “fun” uniform look, and this would be a great opportunity for us to get that look!
I love wearing t-shirts and it would fun to create one for a family event.
Awesome contest! I would make T- shirts for the birthday parties we host at Jump In Jax!
http://www.jump-in-jax.com
Rad contest, I think I'd do some shirts with platypi on them
This is very cool! I would print up t-shirts for my college newspaper staff!
Sweet contest, I would get our company tees printed finally!
I would have shirts printed for a friend's startup company since they've just signed their first big deal and they definitely deserve a nice memento!
I specialize in architectural graphics, and I've been wanting to export some of my crazy line drawings to a T so we could wear the places we create. My company, Threefold Studio, loves creating T-shirt designs. You can check us out at the link below.
24 free shirts sounds awesome to me. I looked at the “DesignStudio” and it seems pretty cool + easy to use. I think I could whip up some pretty sweet softball shirts for my intramural team.
I would get some t-shirts that say “I'm not babysitting…I'm their dad.” and give them to stay at home dads and other fathers I see out with their kids.
I would have shirts printed for our small business, which is in the automotive industry. Thanks for the chance to win!
Amazing contest. I coach a high school ultimate frisbee team that is just starting out. We fundraised all year to get uniforms but most tournaments require a dark and light uniform in case two teams have colors that are too close to tell apart on the field. If I win I will donate the shirts as the “light” uniform for the team. GO WILDCATS!!!
I would have some promo shirts made up for an up coming Earth Day event.
If i gonne win i'll use the shirts for a new corporate identiy for our less effective and underrich snooker-club
I'm pretty sure I would do something that involved J. Benjamin and my logo. What exactly? I'm not sure.
Our church is pretty new in the area and we want get our name out! We already have a design plan and would love to get these printed for free!!!!:)
I would totally order new/more Dulaney Cavaliers tee shirts! All of my puppy buyers love them and I give one out with each puppy sold! We have a Puppy Reunion Party every year when all my Dulaney puppies bring their humans and visit for a day of romping and visiting.
What a great opportunity. I would like to print my tee design called “Eisler's Nightmare”. It is one color.
http://www.oogatees.com/designs/entry/eislers-n…
What a great opportunity. I would like to print my tee design called “Eisler's Nightmare”. It is one color.
http://www.oogatees.com/designs/entry/eislers-n…
I would get more of our fun resort business t's printed up. Blue Cotton did a great job on the first batch!
Im planning on making the shirts for a team at my school. Its like a club to raise money for the Red Cross and American Cancer Society. We need shirts so this looks like the perfext opprotunity.
I am the owner of Gorilla INK Design House. We are all about starting a revolution against any and every thing. I've got tons of designs, but I'm strapped for cash, and need to get the initial run of my shirts printed. It'd be great to win!
Our free printing would unleash Kissa the Cat on an unsuspecting world. At the moment we're in the process of putting a few designs on sites such as the one linked to do a bit of market research before investing in an inventory.
Nathan and Virpi
I would love to put my logo on the shirt and promote my small business helping ppl with technology!!
totally would get some t-shirts of the radio program we're re-launching!
I'd love these for our youth football team! Their t-shirt maker is so easy to use…I have a design saved already but don't know how to share it here.
I would like to get printed vintage designs or funny quotes and graphics on shirt. And I know BlueCotton is very excellent on shirt printing.
I would love to use the shirts for my fraternity, we dont have much money and funding the shirts has always been an issue. We would put them to great use! We love you guys!
I would promote my new book, Brand Zeitgeist. (http://www.BrandZeitgeist.com for more info)
If I win, I would have you make me a shirt with Oscar the Grouch shoting two birds ( middle fingers). When I go to the local bar and the bartender tries to tell me that I've had enough to drink I'll just point to the shirt! AWESOME!!!!
I will advertise my firearms business and NRA Pistol classes
I will use them to create shirts for my fraternity. Seeing that we are on a budget, we would be glad to get some shirts to walk around with. Advertising your site on the back of them wouldn't be a problem for us either.
My 50+ yr old mother-n-law was picked to be in a reality show called the Ultimate Dive Challenge in Cosumel, Mexico in July. We have 20+ family members going and we would love to have Blue Cotton make us shirts that encourage “Nana” to win the the contest. The reality show will be aired late this fall on a major network.
I would Make Marky Marc and the Funky Bunch shirts for relay for life. We can sell them and make more money to donate to the American Cancer Society
My cheerleading squad is making t-shirts to support our Relay for Life team. It would be great if we could use them to help us raise money for Relay for Life. Cheer for a Cure!
If I win I would design another band shirt for my friends and I to use at my friends' band performances!!
I'm trying to start a t-shirt and sundries business called Miss Hissy Fit to pay for my daughter's college tuition. I've used Blue Cotton before and they were incredibly kind and helpful, not to mention reasonably priced for a small business with not cash.
Our shirt has our Miss Hissy Fit lady on it and says: “Don't Call Me Ma'am! I Prefer Your Highness!”
I would totally order new/more Dulaney Cavaliers tee shirts! All of my puppy buyers love them and I give one out with each puppy sold!
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Thanks for playing, all! We'll have the winner posted on Friday.
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