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Are there any alternatives to Threadless? Tees from my last order have a completely horrible quality.

CottonBureau runs a bit more expensive, but the quality is top notch: https://cottonbureau.com/

To understand why printing comes off of cheap T-shirts, see CottonBureau's excellent comparison of screen-printing and "DTG" spray-on inking processes.

https://cottonbureau.com/faq/materials-inks-and-fit

+1. I also like the fact that you can usually pick soft poly-cotton blends as an option.

Expanding on that - what's your go-to T-shirt shop inside the EU? Ordering from Threadless (US) to the EU is quite expensive (shipping + taxes) and I haven't found a quality EU alternative yet.

Spreadshirt? I've used it quite a lot and found it to be good quality, haven't ordered for about 18 months from them. I've got decade old stuff from them that's still good.

Way back I made a list whilst researching for EU t-shirt/mug places -- http://alicious.com/www-cafepress-co-uk/.

I've used https://www.tshirtstudio.com/ for mugs, they were good quality.

Most large towns in UK probably have a dye-sub printing place.

If you want cheap then Vistaprint is pretty hard to beat (cart abandonment usually nets offers).

I usually go to qwertee (https://www.qwertee.com/). As I've said in another comment I've had some minor sizing issues but the print quality is decent enough.

Side note:

I am looking at Qwertee and want to find out about their business model and designer compensation, but whenever I approach the page footer, a new batch of T-shirts thumbnails is loaded in the page content pushing the footer away…

Someone didn't think that one through.

Edit:

> Artists/Designers receive 1 Euro per shirt sold or USD or GBP equivalent. You also retain all rights to your artwork before, during and after it appears on Qwertee (most other t shirt design sites want ownership of your design forever).

> most other t shirt design sites want ownership of your design forever

Threadless legal notice states you own and will maintain ownership of your design(s) after submission.

Kukuxumusu is a popular brand for example in Spain. I can't talk about their quality, but they have a nice design.

http://www.kukuxumusu.com/

Have you tried Spreadshirt?

I have a few, and am satisfied with the quality (but only satisfied, they're still a bit thin.)

https://www.spreadshirt.com/

I'm living in Russia, we don't have any extra taxes. Actually, we have a lot of local clones with the same prints from Threadless(of course illegal), but a price and quality worse than Threadless.

Side question: is that print t-shirt trend a mostly US thing ? and does it exist meaningfully in small(5-10M people) countries ?

Pampling is something I have used but did not like their quality after a few washes.

Amazon offers a similar service - https://merch.amazon.com

wow I'd never heard of this one

I switched to http://www.fangamer.net ages ago because of quality issues and didn't regret a thing. Even if you don't know the video games references, they're good looking.

I'm a big fan of https://www.designbyhumans.com/ for their cool designs (they are constantly adding new ones). Their website is also pretty nice and they frequently have discounts.

shirt.woot has been around forever and still going

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